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viii | GETYOURSMILEBACK:EVERYTHINGYOUNEEDTOKNOW... out – and he couldn’t even wear the partial without experiencing severe pain. Henry stopped wearing the partial. He couldn’t take it anymore; so he began to chew his food using his front teeth instead. As you can imagine, doing the kind of work intended for molars severely damaged his incisors – and soon, he lost those too. Yet another denture was served up to Henry... and things continued to get worse. Despite all the pain he’d been through, Henry couldn’t give up on finding a solution to get his teeth back. At the same time, he was frantic for an escape from the pain he suffered on a daily basis. By the time he visited a specialist, his jawbone had deteriorated so badly that it would never support anything like a conventional bridge again – and obviously, solutions involving dentures were out of the question. Implants were his best chance for getting his teeth back, and living a “normal” life, free of chronic pain.