"It took a while to piece together why I was even in an ambulance and why I didn't haveteeth, " said Stevens, whose injuries resulted in 40 stitches to her face, dental implants and memory loss.
"I realize now that anything at all can happen, even to those who think they have great teeth, " says Rogers' mom, Ann Carman, a 71-year-old retired professor of Japanese language and literature.
Do I really need to have a dentist with decades of training in arcane procedures and scads of expensive machines to get my teeth cleaned every three months?