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Yes, I have. When I became an owner operator, you know, you have to pay for your own insurance. So I just, I didn't go to the dentist a whole lot. I had a problem with a broken tooth. I had a temporary crown put on and I went with that, or not even a temporary crown, it was like a temporary filling. And that lasted like 10, 11 years, 12 years. But then it finally broke out. And so I ended up having to go to the dentist to get that taken care of. They did a, I can't remember if they did a root canal on it or not, but they took care of that, put a crown on it. And then since then, I've been, well, now that I'm back as a company driver, I have insurance that covers my work. You know, I pay a deductible and I pay like 20%, 20, 25% I think on some dental procedures, up to 50% on other dental procedures, depending on what those procedures are. And so I've been, and I was starting to get to a point where my gums were receding and I was heading towards like gingivitis, things like that. So I decided to, you know, take it seriously and work on getting my teeth, keeping my teeth up to date, keeping them clean, keeping the gums good, you know, flossing my teeth, which I don't do enough job on, but you know, trying to keep my teeth as long as I can. I've got two missing teeth, besides the four wisdom teeth that I had taken a long time ago. I got two missing teeth. So, you know, that's problematic at times, depending on what food I'm eating, especially chips or something like that. But yeah, I had a situation where I had two teeth that they put crowns on and then one, you know, they said that the roots were fine. And then like a little, a short time after that, you know, one tooth, that the roots weren't fine. And I ended up, you know, with an infection and I ended up having to find an endodontist in this area because it's a little bit hard for me to get back and forth to the dentist back home because I'm not home except once a month when they grab one.