Comments on: Why I drove 3 hours in a snowstorm to another country to see a dentist and LOVED IT! http://markproffitt.com/2007/02/13/why-i-drove-3-hours-in-a-snowstorm-to-another-country-to-see-a-dentist-and-loved-it/ Predictive Innovation for Business & Society Fri, 11 May 2012 06:07:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Flo http://markproffitt.com/2007/02/13/why-i-drove-3-hours-in-a-snowstorm-to-another-country-to-see-a-dentist-and-loved-it/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Flo Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:06:40 +0000 http://www.markproffitt.com/2007/02/13/why-i-drove-3-hours-in-a-snowstorm-to-another-country-to-see-a-dentist-and-loved-it/#comment-168 Mark, <p>I don't ever think of myself as remotely innovative but I do LOVE the idea of doing things for my health that are the most natural and noninvasive as possible. I wish these ideas would come to the good ole USA. I live in Minnesota so I could probably drive north too.</p> <p>I've fought the damage that is done by the dentists several times over. I had congenitally missing teeth (the ones on either side of my top front teeth). They wanted to destroy 4 good teeth for the sake of two. I put up with a plate with two artificial teeth in high school until they came up with connections behind the teeth on either side. I had braces for 3 years in high school. When my upper teeth moved, my dentist wanted to do veneers. I opted, once again, to have braces on my top teeth (he never even suggested it). A few years ago I got my first crown, which I hate that I gave in to. There was supposedly a crack in my tooth indicated by pain with biting on food but no one could see it even with xrays. Bummer! I gave in and regret it. Now I have a part broken off of an upper molar in the back of my mouth. I haven't allowed him to do another crown, yet. I've had temporary repairs done twice but now it's broken out again. I'm hoping to at least seal it and not have to do away with it.</p> <p> Sorry this is so long but you've hit a nerve, as you can tell! Thank you for taking the time to post your experiences and give us ideas of what else is out there. I'll check out the rest of your website now! </p> Mark,

I don’t ever think of myself as remotely innovative but I do LOVE the idea of doing things for my health that are the most natural and noninvasive as possible. I wish these ideas would come to the good ole USA. I live in Minnesota so I could probably drive north too.

I’ve fought the damage that is done by the dentists several times over. I had congenitally missing teeth (the ones on either side of my top front teeth). They wanted to destroy 4 good teeth for the sake of two. I put up with a plate with two artificial teeth in high school until they came up with connections behind the teeth on either side. I had braces for 3 years in high school. When my upper teeth moved, my dentist wanted to do veneers. I opted, once again, to have braces on my top teeth (he never even suggested it). A few years ago I got my first crown, which I hate that I gave in to. There was supposedly a crack in my tooth indicated by pain with biting on food but no one could see it even with xrays. Bummer! I gave in and regret it. Now I have a part broken off of an upper molar in the back of my mouth. I haven’t allowed him to do another crown, yet. I’ve had temporary repairs done twice but now it’s broken out again. I’m hoping to at least seal it and not have to do away with it.

Sorry this is so long but you’ve hit a nerve, as you can tell! Thank you for taking the time to post your experiences and give us ideas of what else is out there. I’ll check out the rest of your website now!

]]> By: First Step for Dental Innovation ??No Cavity?? ? Mark Proffitt - Predictive Innovation, Creativity, Technology, and Business for an Abundance Society. http://markproffitt.com/2007/02/13/why-i-drove-3-hours-in-a-snowstorm-to-another-country-to-see-a-dentist-and-loved-it/comment-page-1/#comment-42 First Step for Dental Innovation ??No Cavity?? ? Mark Proffitt - Predictive Innovation, Creativity, Technology, and Business for an Abundance Society. Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:44:24 +0000 http://www.markproffitt.com/2007/02/13/why-i-drove-3-hours-in-a-snowstorm-to-another-country-to-see-a-dentist-and-loved-it/#comment-42 [...] I had a cavity and the American dentist gave me only one option and I didn't like it. I wanted better options. So I started innovating to satisfy my desire. Before you think that I started inventing something let me clarify innovation. Innovation is satisfying a demand. If you can find something that already exists and use it to satisfy the demand you innovated. So I began searching. The innovation I wanted was "No cavity"?. [...] [...] I had a cavity and the American dentist gave me only one option and I didn’t like it. I wanted better options. So I started innovating to satisfy my desire. Before you think that I started inventing something let me clarify innovation. Innovation is satisfying a demand. If you can find something that already exists and use it to satisfy the demand you innovated. So I began searching. The innovation I wanted was “No cavity”?. [...]

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