Mitchell Josephs, D.D.S. Question: I love your column and read it every week without fail. Has there been any new technology in dentures? They still seem to be quite primitive. - S.M., Boca Raton ...

Indeed, almost a million people aged 16 to 44 have false teeth. Reassuringly, dentures today usually look very natural. There are many reasons for tooth loss, the most prevalent being removal because ...