Since getting her dentures, Katelyn Bowden is no longer afraid to smile in public. 'No one should be scared to smile,' she says.
covers dental care for children, but adults may only be covered for emergency dental services depending on the state.
When cavities in her teeth got deeper, they caused abscesses in her face that required emergency room visits. One abscess was so severe that it swelled her eyes shut. Bowden couldn’t chew without pain and had toothaches for months on end. He later worked his good dental insurance into his marriage proposal noting Bowden could finally get good dental care.Bowden began going to her husband’s dentist in 2020. Her upper dentures were in place within a year. Her lower dentures required three implants in her jaw to support them, so they took longer.
Dr. Terri Alani, a dentist in Houston, Texas, who is not treating Bowden, says she has never seen any patients in their 30s need full dentures in her 40 years of practice. “ nowadays, because of all the preventive measures, I have patients in their 90s who have all their teeth.”
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