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Re: Implants for lower teeth?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2021-06-06 03:03

Well I'm very sorry to hear that about Bas. This was something he was quite keen on about five years ago. My ONLY reservation back then was that I thought the Wurlitzer mouthpieces, most specifically the M3+, had a better end result. The problem with straight up German mouthpieces is that you need to have the tenon shortened by 1.00mm and made smaller in diameter by 1.00mm. Actually not that hard for many techs to do this modification but it makes the whole thing a little more of a project and less "plug and play."

You could actually make a barrel 1.00 larger in diameter and 1.00mm deeper in the upper socket but THAT is much harder to do. I had to go to someone who was a dedicated machinist who also did woodwind work to make this happen.

But to answer the first question. I would recommend this to just about EVERYONE who has problems with biting (and even those who don't know they have a problem with biting.....yet). I had used a very firm embouchure (ok, I was a biter) for about fifty years, and within a period of less than a year, the German mouthpieces got me free from a lifetime of sinning!

THANK YOU BAS!

and sorry I dragged my feet on a full throated endorsement those few years ago.

.................Paul Aviles

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