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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (81414)	10/14/2011 3:28:19 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218305

Time to go back to old guys stuff. Implant teeth growing double digit. With economic pressures affecting millions of Americans, dentists may have noticed a drop in patients opting for a brighter smile, but they are seeing another phenomenon: a rise in the number of teeth grinders. “I’m seeing a lot more people that are anxious, stressed out and very concerned about their financial futures and they’re taking it out on their teeth,” said Dr. Steven Butensky, a dentist with a specialty in prosthodontics (aesthetic, implant and reconstructive dentistry) in Manhattan. One of his patients lost hundreds of thousands of dollars invested with Bernard L. Madoff. Another reported that he had lost a job with a seven-figure salary. A third, a single mother with a floral design business on Long Island, said she was working twice as hard for half as much. I am going to spend a small fortune in implants now. To pay for the lack of money I had when young and left without half of my teeth!!

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (81414)	10/14/2011 3:40:47 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218305

Dental implant makers lost their shine as a recession-proof investment during the global crisis, which turned fixing smiles into a luxury for consumers who struggled to pay for non-essential work on their mouths. "In spite of their rather functional nature, implants are similar to luxury goods in the sense that they are expensive, discretionary items," Jefferies analyst Stephan Gasteyger said. The dental implant market earned a reputation for being recession-proof by maintaining double-digit growth rates in prior downturns, but the exceptionally tight credit markets during the recent crisis killed growth last year. Implants have proven to be more cyclical than other parts of the medical technology sector as patients usually have to pay for the often expensive treatments themselves and are rarely reimbursed by insurance policies. "We are talking about a price category that is similar to a nice Swiss watch," Gasteyger said The adult population in need of 1 or 2 complete dentures will increase from 33.6 million US adults in 1991 to 37.9 million US adults in 2020 Chester W. Douglass, DMD, PhD, et al, “The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry,” January 2002