Rick, I never really stopped and it can be one of the gratifying things in dentistry but then you hit that one that ruins your life for six months. That will happen with Facelifts also. Of course it happens with cosmetic dentistry. I’ve told this story before. I had a year that I did over 350 “facelift dentures”. Medicaid decided to pay for dentures. It was not my fee but it was a fee you could make a little on so reluctantly I jumped in expecting the usual bitching and moaning Medicaid patients.
What I got was people over 62 who had worked all their lives and were trying to live on SSI which gave them a 5 buck Medicaid check to go with their piss ant Social Security check but paid for healthcare. These people did not miss appointments. They came early. They did not complain. We had to appoint them to get them to come back for adjustments. They hugged you when you finished. I had several men break down when they saw their wives with new dentures and a new face. I think I got paid 650 for a F/F from Medicaid back in the late seventies…not a bad fee back then and I made them the best denture I could possibly produce. They returned the best to me many times over. Naturally the state cut it off after a year because it cost too much. We had made new dentures for just about everyone who needed them so it would have been five plus years before we would have had to do this again…but this was government. It was one of the most gratifying years I’ve ever had. I hadn’t been to the shrink yet but that year was an uplifting one.
Guy W. Moorman, Jr., D.D.S.
The Swamp
Douglas, GA 31533
912-384-7400
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From: acesthetics@googlegroups.com [mailto:acesthetics@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Coker
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:26 PM
To: Ace; stricklands-facelift-denture-group@googlegroups.com
Subject: [ACEsthetics] Facelift Dentures
I hadn't done a denture in 35 years until I took Rod Strickland's Facelift Denture course, and it has been a lot of fun, and despite my inability to read and follow instructions, we have gotten the protocol down pretty well, and we had a patient today who we delivered a denture for, and all I saw of her was her hugging me as she walked out the door! "Looks great, feels great"- Damn, I like that!
Contrast that with a case where I thought I could be really smart- lady with some dentures that were just worn out, and I thought I could give her a deal and just do some regular dentures for! Nice lady, but holy moly, we have had a bunch of adjustments and it just didn't go nearly as smoothly as when Bob does them.
Consider that a lesson learned!
Every denture is a facelift denture from now on!
Rick
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Dr. Rick Coker, DDS, FACE
Director, Academy of Comprehensive Esthetics
www.tyler-smiles.com, www.tylersleep.com
http://www.google.com/profiles/riccoker.
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