This seems like a very silly question to which I'm sure there will be a lot of silly attempts at answering. However, I am seriously wondering why we bother with repairing teeth. It is nice to have our own teeth, but with the way that they rot and contain nerve endings for current practical reasons unknown to me, if any (what reason we keep the nerves, not why they rot)...it seems silly to bother with putting fillings in them that end up in needing resealing and refilling. Why not just kill the nerves that go up into the teeth, extract the affected tooth, make a mold and with that mold make a synthetic tooth as a replacement? Why do we need to keep patching these inefficient, high maintenance parts? It wouldn't bother me at all to just get rid of the nerves that go into the teeth. What do they really serve that the rest of the mouth can't tell us? The second part to the question is why is dental always apart from regular medical insurance? Do I get hand insurance because they're used more than most every other part of my body? No, why does dental get separated?
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The synthetic teeth you ask about are called implants. They are painful to have put in, painful to have to pull out the old tooth and cost around $2 to $3 thousand each. Very expensive mouth. Filling a tooth well costs about $2 to $3 hundred and can last 30 to 40 years. You can buy separate dental insurance. It's not included in most policies bacause everyone would get a one year policy, run up a huge dental bill and cancel as it's not usually an ongoing danger like the rest of our bodies.
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