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I know that; I have permanent residency for almost 20 years now, never seriously thought about applying for citizenship though. However, my comment was meant to be some kind of critical remark to all those westerners living or spending most time of the year in Thailand, yet ranting about foreigners in their own country, who won't integrate and don't speak the language. Most expats may legally not be immigrants, so there is no requirement to learn the Thai language but factually they are, as they are spending most of their time here and one reason for those language requirements is to be able to master any everyday situation, an ability, which so many expats lack. Consequently their whole everyday life depends on others, who can be some kind of life partner, who may have her own interests or some agency which definitely has its own interests.

Isn't that just disgusting? Same in the country where I live. Foreigners wherever you look, none of them speaks the language, let alone being interested in learning it, have no respect for the culture and mentality, the majority of them being men. They are out on the streets every night in a loud and aggressive way leading to brawls almost daily and are permanently chasing women . By the way, I live in Thailand.

or are willing to. I personally refuse to give any of these dentures to my patients as they pose an enormous health risk. There is a reason why they always put some clasps on the other side and connect them with a sublingual or palatal bar: Swallowing and inhaling. This denture can always come off unexpectedly for example when eating some sticky rice or while jogging. If you swallow it, it won't be easy to get it out of your stomach but worse than that if you inhale it, you're in big trouble. And so is your dentist, if he has not informed you about all the risks and made you sign a waiver.

Maybe I can add some useful information, as I might know a thing or two about this matter. Truth to be told, I'm doing implant surgery for more than 30 years now. First some general information: implants are made of titanium and in some cases of Zirconia, and once inserted into the bone, they osseointegrate, meaning bone grows on them, which takes about 6 to 12 weeks, may be longer in case of bone grafts. NOTE: these days people talk about surgery, no matter if dental surgery or some facial corrections like a facelift or even those silicone breasts so many women seem to have, as if they are talking about their next visit to the hairdresser. EVERY single time when surgery is performed there is inevitably scar tissue plus you always have the risk of failure. NOTE: implant manufacturers love to present the statistics which says that after five years 95% of the implants are still in the mouth of the patient. True, but they forget to mention that after five years less than 75% of the prosthetic once put on those implants is still in use. The reason in most cases is the implant-abutment connection, which I will explain now: Once the healing process is finished, the dentist can put some kind of denture on the implant. That can be the crown or a bridge or even some removable kind of denture (I wrote quite a lot about that in another thread. To connect the implant with the denture, some kind of connecting device is normally screwed onto the implant, which is called abutment. Depending on the kind of prosthetic you need a different kind of abutment. The screw connecting the abutment with the implant is, as one can imagine, very small and tiny, yet it has to withhold huge forces caused by different levels of temperature in the mouth (coffee, ice cream) and most importantly the force used when chewing. The chewing muscles are based on their weight the strongest in the human body and can close the teeth with a force as great as 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms). NOTE: Here is where wheat is separated from the chaff, the precision of fit between the different components, which is normally much better in the more expensive implants, resulting in much better durability. NOTE: another important point is the deliverability of spare parts. Let's say you have two or three implants with crowns on them. With time passing you lose a few more teeth and now you want to use these implants to insert a bridge or maybe even a removable denture. All your dentist has to do, is to remove the crown, replace the abutment by another one, matching the new prosthetic and fix that prosthetic on it. The question is if the manufacturer of your implant is delivering those spare parts to the place you live or even worse, does he still exist, because if not you're in real trouble as maybe the whole implant has to be removed from your jawbone to replace it with another one which is way harder and bloodier compared to a tooth extraction. So if you are living in a place, which you will never leave and are being treated by a young dentist, who will never leave (keep in mind that compared to other academic professions dentists have the lowest life expectancy and the highest suicide rate) and economic is just great, so that your implant manufacturer will be there forever, then you can take any brand you want. If not I'd recommend a brand which is selling their products worldwide like Nobel Biocare, Ankylos, 3i and the number 1: Straumann. The weight of titanium or the price per Kilogramm has nothing to do with the price of the implants. The oxygen tank from your grandfather is probably made of the same austenitic stainless steel (316L) which is used in your expensive watch, yet the tank is much heavier and way cheaper. I'd like to present a case, which I have treated: this lady had only a few rotten teeth left, hadn't seen a dentist for many years and did not like to be in public due to obvious reasons: after tooth extraction we gave her a temporary full denture and later inserted 4 implants in both the upper and the lower jaw. A few weeks later we inserted telescopic dentures. That is the result and I will never forget her reaction when she saw her new smile for the first time: she was in tears. NOTE: any kind of full dentures will never hold as well compared to clasp dentures and any kind of clasp dentures will never hold as well as telescoping ones plus you have no metal bar under your tongue or on the roof of your mouth which might cause a gagging reflex, foot impaction and especially for full dentures in the upper jaw a loss of taste. NOTE: Telescopic dentures as you see here can be fixed on implants but also on teeth, if - and this is very important - those teeth can still withhold the stress and pressure put on them during the chewing process. NOTE: Among all removable dentures telescopic ones are by far the best, strongest attachment to the remaining teeth and most comfortable. So finally to answer your question if it is worth it, @richard_smith237 has given you a great answer already. I couldn't have said it better. But as a medical advice I would suggest you see a dentist first to check if your remaining teeth still can be used, as any kind of prosthetic on natural teeth is always way cheaper than on implants. Which is one of many reasons, why you should keep them as long as they are good. But most important is that you do something, because an impaired chewing ability will sooner or later lead to problems with the maxillofacial joint and worse to problems with your stomach in your digestive system. However, if you don't, you remaining teeth will sooner or later make that decision for you. Hopefully it is a good one, not like the one I made, when I applied for the licensing of my clinic and presented this logo to the dental council of Thailand to be put outside my place. They laughed about it but out of some reason I never got the permission for that logo; they never told me why.

The BM referred to kids. A kid is defined as under 18. The Israeli health organisation announced the exact number of victims and age groups: those under 18 killed - as horrible as it is - were less than 40

When it comes to western media it is more the other way round. Plus stories, like the one from the 40 babies or the baby with the umbilical cord, even when debunked by Israeli media or authorities, are rarely clarified in wester media.

Can I please answer the wrong accusations made against me I did NOT say, the Palestinians responsible for Oktober 7 should not be damned. I only criticized that one side is continuously damned and the other faces no criticism. There were less than 40 kids on that music festival This never happened and has been debunked already by Israeli authorities and newspapers. I can PM you the sources. I did never defend FGM. On the contrary; I wrote that I despise it as it is a mutilation and can be lethal. You can have as much contempt for me as you want - I could not care less. But at least show some decency and have it for reasons which took place in reality and are not made up by you.

Thanks for the clarification.

Yes.

I don't think that a few wrong reports from one correspondent are enough to judge the whole BBC including all their correspondents nevertheless my comment was meant as a joke, as you had stated the BBC is using Hamas operatives as journalists and asked me, if "this is the BBC, that I would like to send their own journalists". My question, why they would not send their own journalists into Gaza, was it order to point out, that the most moral army would not let any independent journalists in that area to independently report on their most moral mass murder of Muslims, mostly women and kids, no matter if I would like it or not. And please do not confuse Anti-Semitic with anti Israel or the criticism of the actions of Israel. The term anti-Semitic is misused to frame every person criticising the current mass murder by the Israeli army as a racist. Jews are semitic people and so are Arabs, So anti-Semitic would mean being anti Jews and anti Arabs. But today it seems as if some Jews have “occupied” this term. Even if you translate it that way, being anti the actions of Israel is not the same as being anti every Jew, as there are thousands of Jews in and outside of Israel opposing those actions. How do you want to call them? Anti-Semitic semites?

Sure? They are not allowed to speak loudly in public. But I have not heard of any laws banning them from speaking to other women. I am not condoning that. I was just wondering, Why you are so worried about Muslim women's rights or their clits, while at the same time you are condoning a war which indiscriminately kills 10s of thousands of them.

Really? Why do they not send their own independent journalists into Gaza? So the world could finally see what is really going on there.

I doubt that look at the current mindset of people today. The thread is about the backlash BBC faced because of referring to Muslim converts as reverts, because “The term “revert” is rooted in the belief held by some Muslims that every human is born into Islam and that conversion later in life“ So what? Christians believe that if you are not baptised you go to hell, which includes pretty much every person ever lived on this planet except Christians. Some member called this a deliberate act of Islamic propaganda, which I doubt, as I assume that most people don't know the difference between a revert and convert. He then made a few statements about the fate of women in Islam and all I did was providing a few explanations, while clearly not condoning to it. And what was the reaction? Three negative emojis and another three condescending comments. People somehow lost the ability to understand the difference between explanation and justification. Now to your job suggestion: Western media in general is more or less following mainstream, where certain countries cannot be criticised, no matter which atrocities they commit, no matter for how long they do it and no matter how many human rights organisations plus the UN oppose them while others are continuously damned for atrocities committed in a single day. And they developed their own language when it comes to reporting, where certain people are “murdered by terrorists” while others somehow “lost their lives” (NEWSPEAK) Despite it is becoming more and more difficult, mostly because of the pressure from society, I still try it to only look at the facts and use my own brain to form my own opinion and not let others do the thinking for me. Expressing that opinion which would have led to an interesting conversation in the past will today result in being put in the same pigeonhole as terrorists or being cancelled for THOUGHTCRIME. I would not last a day.

Where is that? sounds interesting. Because every time my now ex-wife had been talking to some of her fellow Thai countrywomen later we had a fight.

So did the Christians. Women within Christian communities, including in Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania, do undergo FGM most of them being Coptic or Orthodox Christians but also Protestants and Catholics (in Sudan and Kenya). A 2013 UNICEF report identified 55 % of Christian women in Niger had experienced it, against 2% of Muslim women. In Europe the Skoptsy Christian sect practices FGM as part of redemption. Does that also say a lot? I, being a medic, despise it. It is a mutilation, has no health benefits but only risks including severe bleeding or infections which even might be lethal. But I don't understand why this point is being brought up every time there is a discussion about Islam. Christianity has had its own share of atrocities: The mass murder of more than 130 million Native Americans, 2 world wars, the Holocaust, just to mention a few and if that is too much in the past, just compare the number of deaths from the conflicts in the last quarter century. And we call them terrorists! Religions do not kill innocents. People do.