Thank you for all your advice. I emailed my local news station that sometimes does exposes on such things, and I'm going to be a real pain and keep complaining whether or not they pay. This is a gross negligence of the system. If someone needed a prosthetic device anywhere else in the body due to cancer other than the mouth it would be covered..something needs to be done, and I'm going to keep complaining until more light is shed on this. Thanks again, Virginia