The last bite

It's a stick up

One of the frequently recurring problems is denture retention and many patients use fixatives of one type or another to give them confidence in social situations. However, it was somewhat surprising to find dentures and stick up given a whole new meaning as a result of a bank raid in Pennsylvania recently. Having been apprehended, one of the erstwhile robbers turned out to be female and claimed in her defence that she had committed the crime to be able to afford new dentures.

I am not aware that prosthodontics is any more expensive in that US state than in any other but either way we can only hope that the motivation doesn't catch on. I suppose a touch of shop-lifting or pick-pocketing could go towards funding a scale and polish or an X-ray or two but it would need a decent sized heist or a lucrative scam to support implants and a full mouth rehabilitation.