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Testimonials > Jim
Tate
It was mid April 1988. I was standing in the
middle of the computer room holding the
entire right side of my face in my hand,
grimacing.
“I have some Tylenol if you want some,” the
lead operator said.
“I’ve taken four already, but they haven’t
done any good,” I replied.
“You need to see a dentist,” he suggested.
“I’ve seen three in the last year and none
of them can find anything wrong. It doesn’t
hurt but about one day a month, but when it
hurts it hurts! I wish I knew someone who
did a good job of making dentures, I’d have
a set in my mouth in a heartbeat.”
“My wife had a set put in about six months
ago and has had not one minute’s trouble
with them.” Before he had finished speaking,
I had my pen in my hand and was reaching for
a piece of paper. “How do I get in touch
with this person?” I asked. “I’ll give you
his card, his name is Trizzino”, he said.
I filled out the customary form and was just
settling down with a magazine when a lady
opened a door and called my name. After I
was seated in a dentist’s chair, a man
walked in. He gave me a big smile, stuck out
his hand and said, “Hi, I’m Ed Trizzino, I
see you want to have a set of dentures made,
what are your symptoms?”
I went through the entire litany: wisdom
teeth that had to be broken to get them out,
periodontal surgery, root canals, fillings
that came out, crowns that didn’t fit and
now this problem which nobody could even
diagnose.
“Let me have a look,” he said and started
poking around on my teeth. In less than five
minutes he had found the elusive problem: a
hairline crack in one of my upper teeth.
He had a plan. First we would have to
extract the four teeth that could not be
saved. He would then do a “deep cleaning” on
the remaining 24 and go from there.
A lengthy discussion ensued with me
extolling the virtues of dentures (can make
them pearly white, don’t have to have root
canals, don’t get “set on edge” by ice cream
and/or coffee, etc.) and he pointing out all
the disadvantages of dentures and extolling
the virtues of “real” teeth.
I had heard all of that before and was
buying none of it; all I wanted was
something in my mouth that would chew food
and not hurt. I played my trump card: “all
that’s going to happen is that I am going to
spend a lot of money trying to salvage these
teeth and finally spend a lot more for a set
of dentures that I will have to have
anyway.”
Without the slightest pause he replied, “If
that happens I will give you full credit for
everything you have spent up to that point
on the dentures.” A long silence followed
(maybe 30 seconds) while I considered what I
stood to gain against what I stood to loose.
I accepted his offer.
It is now December 2005. I still have my 24
teeth. I have had only one toothache, and
Dr. Trizzino fixed that one quickly. I eat
ice cream (sugar free, of course) and drink
hot beverages in complete comfort. My teeth
are not even and have a lot of exposed
roots, thus presenting a challenge to keep
clean, but using the techniques Dr. Trizzino
has shown me, my teeth feel and look good.
At my last checkup, Dr. Trizzino informed me
that my teeth should be good for another 30
years. Since I am now 69 I suppose that
means he is planning to give me my free
dentures for my 100th birthday.
Jim Tate
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