Greetings!

Hello again,

Another year is closing fast and it seems as though the older I get, the faster these years go by.  On the other hand, the older I get, the more I seem to learn and pay attention to.

One thing I do know is that I wish I had paid more attention to or worked harder in seeking out common sense and 'wisdom' when it would have done more good for me to act on as a younger man.  Nonetheless, if I don't take heed now, it will never do me any good, right?

Along this line, so many people tell me that they wished they had come across the OraMedia site's  information twenty or thirty years ago, for all of the expensive dental work they've had or the pain and suffering from a disease they didn't know how to prevent or the teeth long lost to neglect or decay.

For you younger readers - most of you WILL reach fifty or sixty or seventy years, and what you do today to secure your overall health and well-being down the road WILL pay off in spades.  If you take nothing else to heart, take this:  barring divine intervention, NO ONE will EVER take care of you like YOU.  You can't buy that from a doctor, accountant or a politician, so you might want to burn that into your memory banks right now.

Now, if you are older, like me - and if you feel this way also, don't hide this information from someone who might benefit from it thirty or forty years from now (or right now, in fact).

As bitter as it might have been, didn't we all learn, "It's nice to share..."

On with it...

Tom

"...I know a heck of a lot more about being 50 than you know about being 70...!"