Interesting. My grandmother had false teeth as long as I can remember. She had Parkinsons - it got her in the end. 89, to be fair, but it makes you wonder.
My parents both had such brittle, bad teeth that they had dentures at the age of 20. Dad was incredibly fit and healthy, and made it to 96 years. Mum had numerous health issues, many she inherited but none skeletal or neurological: still active and mobile at 93. She died a month short of 96. I am wondering if the orthodontics before 1950 were simpler and less intrusive than they are now?
So what you're pointing out is something that used to intrigue Marcello a lot back in 2017-18.
As he was studying Gerber's lingualized occlusion and how it was often used in how they made dentures back in the day. But these days I don't think the prosthodontists do it anymore.
So to make a long story short... i would not be surprised if the dentures your parents had incorporated this lingualized bite concept.. and therefore was instrumental in them making it to such a good age.
Thanks, EGK: interesting reading. Gerber's "Condylator" was introduced in 1948, and that would be about when both my parents got dentures. But his work in lingualized occlusion wasn't practiced until the 1950s, just a little too late. My parents - and then me - inherited brittle teeth, but I have managed to keep mine. It's cost me in dentist bills though...
This does still resonate with what marcello always used to say which was that our best understanding of dentistry (in his view) was back in the mid-1900s.
Ozzy did have multiple spinal surgeries that were rather invasive :
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66876167
interesting.. to me the root cause of these spinal injuries will be things that are mirrored in the occlusion.
Interesting. My grandmother had false teeth as long as I can remember. She had Parkinsons - it got her in the end. 89, to be fair, but it makes you wonder.
My parents both had such brittle, bad teeth that they had dentures at the age of 20. Dad was incredibly fit and healthy, and made it to 96 years. Mum had numerous health issues, many she inherited but none skeletal or neurological: still active and mobile at 93. She died a month short of 96. I am wondering if the orthodontics before 1950 were simpler and less intrusive than they are now?
So what you're pointing out is something that used to intrigue Marcello a lot back in 2017-18.
As he was studying Gerber's lingualized occlusion and how it was often used in how they made dentures back in the day. But these days I don't think the prosthodontists do it anymore.
And lingualized occlusion is what you need to have a healthy, functional bite which very few dentists these days know about. I talk about this here: https://reviv.substack.com/p/indexed-splints-and-the-magical-perfect?utm_source=publication-search
So to make a long story short... i would not be surprised if the dentures your parents had incorporated this lingualized bite concept.. and therefore was instrumental in them making it to such a good age.
Here's some stuff related: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/340648/
Thanks, EGK: interesting reading. Gerber's "Condylator" was introduced in 1948, and that would be about when both my parents got dentures. But his work in lingualized occlusion wasn't practiced until the 1950s, just a little too late. My parents - and then me - inherited brittle teeth, but I have managed to keep mine. It's cost me in dentist bills though...
interesting...
This does still resonate with what marcello always used to say which was that our best understanding of dentistry (in his view) was back in the mid-1900s.
And things went downhill after that.