― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy --, Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
(kidding, gerard)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― terfying? metal hooks?, Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
electric toothbrushes make it more FUTURISTIC.
― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Use listerine.
Floss whenever you can, if you start bleeding when you floss that means you should be flossing more, not less.
Soft bristled brushes help you brush the gumline better, so buy those.
Don't skip a day. You can get by only brushing once a day if you have to, and even just brushing without toothpaste if there's none around once in a while, but don't ever skip. That 48 hours vs. 24 or 12 is what kills your teeth, think about mitosis and the whole bacteria population doubling every 20 minutes and you get the picture.
If all else fails don't blame yourself too much, research with twins and families has shown tooth decay is highly influenced by your genetic makeup to the point that twins will sometimes end up getting all their cavities in EXACTLY THE SAME TEETH as one another.
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 31 March 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 31 March 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
So so so so true. "Bleeding when you floss means you need to floss more" is the "if the topical cream burns, it's doing its job" of dental hygeine.
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 31 March 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
i find painful teeth and gums sort of fascinating, so long as they're not *too* painful. i also find it kind of cool when one of my teeth is sort of loose. but i also go to the dentist regularly and i've never had any serious dental problems.
i find going to the dentist perfectly pleasant and occasionally sort of fascinating. i don't quite understand the "fear dentists" meme. (well, maybe if you've seen von stroheim's "greed"--that's fucked up.)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
amateurist, yes the dentist is expensive. esp. since i can't even pay rent tomorrow, much less a dentist.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link
But man, gimme that laughing gas.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
that said, i'm gonna bookmark this thread and look at it whenever i'm tempted to skip a day. brrrr.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
[xpost] my husband had his wisdom tooth pulled out in pieces (it was broken)...and he kept it. on the nightstand. still has it. it's gross. I'm making him a gift of a matchbox & some cottonwool. I just want it to go away.
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 1 April 2005 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Hence I'm really paranoid about people looking at my teeth. Especially with my having three canines and all.
― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Friday, 1 April 2005 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link
my dentist story is on the "scary things yr hairdresser sed" thread: i haven't been since then
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Rather shamefully, I haven't been back since. I have rediscovered the joys of flossing though.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link
(I also get a weird, uncomfortable, maddening sensation if I touch papers napkins (or other similar kinds of paper) when my fingers are too dry. And not dry to the point of cracking or flaking or anything, just the kind of dryness that comes from wind or air. If this happens I have to put the napkin down and get some kind of wetness or even like pizza grease before I can touch it again. Does this happen to anyone else?)
But the thought of me not going to the dentist for ten years is horrifying. I've gone to the dentist pretty much every 6 months for as long as I can remember, but I've always been lucky to have good dental insurance. I basically never floss (I flossed like 3 times last year), but I've never had a cavity. I do usually brush twice a day, and it usually brush for a couple minutes. And then a lot of times I start reading something while I'm brushing my teeth, and I end up sitting there with a mouthful of toothpaste for like 5 minutes, so maybe that somewhat makes up for not flossing?
Also, the last time I went to the dentist, they gave me a walkman to listen to, which is like the greatest idea ever. It totally helped distract me. The next time you go to the dentist, I highly recommend bringing some kind of portable music player. You also get to avoid awkward dentist conversation. It still baffles me when they ask me questions while they're doing something in my mouth. How do they expect me to answer with more than a wordless noise?
― Lingbertt, Friday, 1 April 2005 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I found a very local NHS dentist who fixed a broken filling for me for very little cash, but I left his surgery actually feeling he hadn't done enough work in there (I can feel, clearly, the fissure between the patched-up filling and the body of the tooth, and if that isn't a bacterial pleasure palace I don't know what is), which is entirely unlike my reaction to my previous, private dentists, who fucked my mouth about at enormous expense and caused problems for years where there had been none before.
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I won't be going back to Kennington then. (The missus has just registered at one in Crystal Palace - they actually put a leaflet through our door courting our registration! NHS shortages a media myth, blah blah blah).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 1 April 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
You can put your name on a dentist's list in the same way that you can register with a family doctor (GP). Find a dentist, ring them to check they offer NHS treatment and ask to put your name on their list.
Some dentists will only register you as a patient after an initial examination. When you visit the surgery you should remind them that you want to be registered as an NHS patient.
Your period of registration will last for 15 months. If, after registering with an NHS dentist you have not made an appointment within 15 months, your registration will no longer be valid and you will have to register again.
If you see your dentist regularly, you will not need to do this.
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 April 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, same here! Have gone every six months since I was able to remember things at four or whatever, will be going in a couple more weeks. My dentists always say I've done a very good job with my teeth, with the exception alas of two small cavities I got back in 1984. Otherwise, smooth sailing. And my wisdom teeth came out in one piece and with no fuss. I love me.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 April 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
this makes me feel rotten.
i never had dental issues as a kid, not one cavity, and then about age 15 all of the sudden they would find new ones all the time, which i find very odd becuase it seems as though i take better care of my teeth now than when i was seven. anyway, i have insurance, but i haven't made an appt yet, i think because i'm secretly afriad. also, i don't want to pay the deductible and copay for a filling.
― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nowell (Nowell), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nowell (Nowell), Friday, 1 April 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I need to go, but I have hated every dentist that I've ever gone to. When I take my car to the mechanic, he doesn't give me a hard time because it's been years since I've gone. No, he just fixes the damn thing. Dentists, in my experience, just want to throw a guilt-trip over you before taking a thousand x-rays for no reason at all.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 1 April 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nowell (Nowell), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
i didn't find that to be the case when i was a kid.
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
what's up with all you dental slackers??
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
This same doctor slapped my cousin once because he thought she was being a bit too hysterical. Never mind the fact that he TORTURED KIDS AND CHARGED THEIR PARENTS FOR IT.
― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 April 2005 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
no dental insurance!
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Fuck American health care
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
i hadn't gone in 10 years and i went over xmas. i was told that i was RUINING MY GUMS because i brushed INCORRECTLY! i have been going side-to-side for my entire life. the dentist was like NO NO NO AAAAGGGH NO. brush in the direction your teeth grow he said. he said "be gentle." i was, apprently, brushing my gums into oblivion. i should probably floss too huh, i said. "just the ones you want to keep." i remembered hearing the same line from him, 10 years earlier. and i still had them all! HA.
anyway, i have decay on two teeth, but they're my wisdom teeth and he said i should get em yanked soon anyway, so he didn't bother doing anything to them.
i reported all this to my dentist friend who lives in glasgow. he had a somewhat glaswegian attitude, i guess. he emailed back: "why did you go to the dentist? were you in pain?"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
One dentist said to me once, "You don't wash your hands until they bleed, do you? Then why do that to your gums?" Makes sense, I guess.
I'm going in on Thursday for my first appointment since the Clinton administration. Never been to this guy before. If he recommends braces, I'll be excusing myself once more.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link
yes, too much of the former, plus genetics, led to gum surgery for me. never had a filling, though.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 06:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
(well, I assume - I was 17 and had an NHS dentist anyway when mine were pulled)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
That sounds pretty awesome in general. I wish I could do it without having/needing surgery.
― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Is this plausible? Also my dentist reminded me of Dr. Nick and had huge snot stalagmites in both nostrils. :((((
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I've had root canal work, 6 fillings, hygienist cleaning, the works - all with NO pain
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
no trouble but I will try to not not go for that long, again
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Anna, you could try this http://www.nhs.uk/England/Dentists/Default.aspx but I reckon word of mouth (mouth! ha!) is usually best. But what do I know, I've not had a dentist for 9 years.
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
the previous dentist always x-rayed and always found something to do on every visit. the current one doesn't and hasn't. i'm not sure which i prefer.
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
unfortunately, i have 5 cavities and have to get a deep-gum cleaning :-( this is the 1st time in my life that i've had cavities, or have had to get fillings so i am NOT thrilled.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
and now i gotsta floss, so no more cavities, no more drill-and-fill, etc. i'm gonna be one of those nasty mofos @ work who brushes and flosses after every meal (and junks up the sink b/c of that).
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 7 May 2006 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Except for writing that.
Gross.
― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 7 May 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 7 May 2006 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Invest in a Sonicare or similar, check out the Showerfloss, use xylitol with abandon. Mr. Jaq and I have gone from having those scary bloody gum pockets to none whatsoever due to diligent application of same. Xylitol's the newest thing I've been researching - pretty amazing, can actually reverse mild instances of caries, disrupt bacterial plaque and remineralize your teeth.
― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
then again, i went to the dentist 'round Easter, for the first time in 3 years: STILL NO CAVITIES, BITCHES.
― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm going to go have some coffee now.
― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Dear lord.
― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 7 May 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
but my cavity-free mouth required oral surgery a decade back for some weird gum thing and it was nofun in the extreme. I've been a stickler for regular cleanings and dental exams ever since.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 7 May 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 May 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
The dentist is talking about sealing my molars, because the valleys are deep on them. Insurance won't cover it for an adult - has anyone else had this done? I wonder if the cost is really worth it.
― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 7 May 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 7 May 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 May 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Still my parents suck. I've had to put so much money into my mouth it's stupid (well above 10 grand). Damn their genes and lack of hygiene.
― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 7 May 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 7 May 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 7 May 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link
I dont understand this deep cleaning, bloody gum pockets (!!), wtf is wrong with you peoples mouths!? :/ I cant help feeling flossing is mostly bad for ones gums - it can cut the gums, and that isnt good. I only ever floss when I have actual food stuck in my teeth.
I am also strongly suspicous that some more shifty dentists will tell people they need cavities for no reason, to make more money. I mean obviously if you have a painful tooth, you know you need one. But what if you go for a checkup and suddenly you need a mouthful? I say - go see another dentist!
― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I floss every day. Probably 364 out of 365 for the last 10 years.
They were like "oMG you never ever floss we can tell from your gingivitis"
I was like "bitch when i was a kid i had real gingivitis and knoe what it feels like. I floss every night and if you are not listening to me you are a quack."
They told me I needed $1300 in dental work (no insurance) i was like fuck that i'm going elsewhere for a 2nd opinion. That was a fucking scary dentist visit.
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Rainbow bum - good luck with a second opinion, sometimes I think they are just trying to pay off their in-chair tv systems and such.
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 5 August 2006 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJ7Cy_19S8
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 5 August 2006 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― stevie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roz, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roz, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
2 extractions & a filling = I look like I've been in a bar brawl but it was painless and I got it on the NHS so it's all good mostly. Would like mouth to thaw so I can have a kebab tho.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i am going to the dentist tomorrow, for the first time in 10+ years
― n/a, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/images/2007/05/29/cmi695.jpg
― Mr. Que, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i am afraid to even read this thread because i have not been to dentist in like 3-4 years
― deej, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
well i hadn't been in almost 10 yrs and now i need a bunnnnch of stuff done. but it's the way of the world. it'll get doine. my benefits are oK.
you know, we don't realize that these scary dentist ppl, they see a LOT of really bad teeth
― Surmounter, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i have a $600 dentist bill -- anyone have any hints for negotiating it down
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
can anyone recommend a dr in ny in the cigna network? i gotta go through my hmo...
― bell_labs, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno i'm about to be on Empire in NY... meeting with the Benefits woman today.
Dr. Michael Herman is really great, 128 Central Park South I think. not sure if he's on cigna but maybe worth cheking
― Surmounter, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa Guardian is like really good, my new dental plan
― Surmounter, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't nkow why i said Empire before, what the hell is that
― Surmounter, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
bell labs, ask these people:
http://www.docnet.org/physicians/phys_bios.asp?phys_id=1635
they are pretty pricey as far as dentists go, but they are GREAT. I TRUST them. I broke a tooth after not going to the dentist for 5 years. Went to some mcdentist who said I'd need a root canal when the dr was in next week and untill then there was nothing they could do and that I should just avoid eating with that tooth. BREATHING hurt. I went to the linked dentist the next day, nice little office in brooklyn heights. She said I might not need a root canal, I didn't get one, got a crown instead, and she put some temp ceramics on it to cover up the exposed parts prior to the crown.
And as i've said many many times. The tooth breaking SUCKED. It hurst and cost LOTS of money. Get cleanings and check-ups every 6 months people and don't let that happen.
And that dentists other device was to get a Phillips Sonicaire Toothbrush. I did and it was great. I stopped using it after a while and hadn't been there for 3 years. Went back and recently, had major cleaning and now am using the Philips again. It's expensive, but it's worth it. It's like getting your teeth cleaned every day. It's not one of those 20 buck ones that just spin around.
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
who's your dentist in brooklyn heights?
― Surmounter, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
see the link.
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll try them - lauren told me about a dentist who sounds great, but they don't take my insurance, and i'm afraid i will need stuff done.
― bell_labs, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't recommend her enough. You can go cheaper, hell, there's about a dozen dentists in queens right outside of the 7 train that offer real bargains AND free electric toothbrushes, but dental care isn't something I'm looking to get a bargain in. And if you have good coverage...when I had all that work done (the crown, etc) I had Met Life and it covered most of it.
I now have some shitty plan care of Freelancer's Union, and have yet to see how that'll pan out.
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
and I got it on the NHS
how do you do that? last time i needed any dental work done (all wisdom teeth out, 2000 - eek, 7 years...), i filled in all the forms and sent off all the proof cos i was so sure i would qualify - i was making like £200 a week gross (so, what, £168 net?) and living in london - i remember reading in the metro about average wages and discovering i was below the poverty line - and they told me i did not qualify for any help whatsoever.
― emsk, Monday, 26 November 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
We managed to register with an NHS dentist. We still have to pay charges, but my check-up and the subsequent treatment I had today are charged at NHS rate which is less than 50 quid for everything. I think if you have below a certain income you have to pay less, maybe right down to nothing. But the standard NHS charges aren't means tested and they're still a lot lower than private charges.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 26 November 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
ok thanks. i am so confused! i didn't go private, i specifically asked about nhs dentists... ohwell. maybe next time.
― emsk, Monday, 26 November 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
The charges might've been a lot different in the past tho. The poster on the NHS site here says "since April 2006".
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 26 November 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm so squeamish about bodies, teeth & especially gums that I didn't go for twelve years, and when I did I had to have nine fillings and three pure-black wisdom teeth chopped out of my gob. It was a good job I was on the dole at the time - it all came free and I got some sedation for the squeams thrown in.
That was three years ago, though, and recently, while eating a fucking ciabatta that I didn't even want, one of those big fillings came out, or a quarter of a tooth did -- I swallowed it and I'm no expert anyway -- and I have to begin again I reckon, this time paying, I suppose.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 26 November 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
All four of my wisdom teeth have impacted...it wld cost $1200 to get them removed. I am kind of nervous abt spending this; I can fit it in my budget but it will hurt my 'oh shit my dog ate a tractor' emergency savings. Will my mouth be like 'eh, don't worry bout taking out those 4 weird choppers, we've grpwn used to them," or will it be like, "When will you please fucking mutiny these supposedly wise teeth, we are getting twisted into uselessness." ???
― Abbott, Monday, 26 November 2007 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
impacted meaning 'grown out,' I am 98% sure I am using it correctly but wanted to clarify in case I hadn't
― Abbott, Monday, 26 November 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I've got decent medical insurance, but the dental plan kinda blows. I always feel like I've been gipped every time I get a standard cleaning, so I end up going maybe once every couple of years. I'm a 2/3 times a day brusher and fairly regular floss-a. I'm probably tempting fate, but goddam I really hate going to the dentist.
― will, Monday, 26 November 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i haven't been to the dentist since i was 15, and i only have one filling. i'm thinking i should get a check-up before i leave the country but i'm too scared about what might be secretly wrong with my teeth.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Do it before you have to pay for it w/insurance! You will seriously, seriously not regret it and it's probably nowhere near as bad as you think (went to the dentist for the first time in seven years to find "look ma, no cavities!").
― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Oops, I mean before you move to U.S., the country where you will get no decent insurance, if any at all.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think impacted means anything until they start getting cavities or somehow going wrong on you? I think the reason dentists take out most people's wisdom teeth is that a) sometimes they're pressuring other teeth, b) they're harder to reach behind and tend to get cavities, and c) dentistry is a business. But if you have nice hard resistant enamel to begin with, maybe you'll NEVER get cavities in them! Just brush, mouth wash, whatever, be good to yr teefs.
If, sometime in yr adult life with a job & insurance, they show signs of problems and have to come out while your body still heals pretty well/quickly, then fine. I suppose one wouldn't want to be like sixty-something and then have to have major oral surgery with older-person healing times. But that's a long ways off.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
That seems sensible & accurate. It's what I suspected, that it wasn't a danger will robinson thing & could be tended to when I have a Real Job.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm kinda scared my wisdoms are finally coming through. i'm getting a really aching jaw, but i always getting an acutely tense jaw when i'm stressed, so i'm not sure if it's just that. and i've been clenching my teeth practically non-stop lately.
dentists really scare the shit out of me :/
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to have a tooth removed, she put two injections in me last night and one was in the roof of my mouth - absolute fucking agony.
Ugh I had this happen when I had my wisdoms out. I'm not that afraid of needles, but when even your dentist says "I'm sorry but this is really going to hurt" you know its gonna be bad. Holy crap.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
this is really enabling my capacity for procrastination when it comes to health check-ups
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Have you ever had a tooth rot from the inside, the nerve shriveling up and dying while still encased in yr tooth, from raging infection? If you have, it looks much, much less tempting to putt off dentist visits. Any root canal, in fact, any TWO OR MORE root canals, are worth avoiding nerve death.
I actually fell ASLEEP during my last root canal, and I've been deathly afraid of needles for about twenty years. I promise you it can be done.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Please spare yourself and go in. You don't want to have a slight twinge on a Friday afternoon that you shrug off, but which by the midnight hours of Saturday has turned into a monster that rules your head until the inflammation swells your eye(s) shut and makes your face feel on fire, so that you can stagger around Brooklyn looking for a hospital at sunrise because there is no fucking way you can stay in the house any longer.
It was my pre-bike days and I had no internet at home, and no money for a car service or similar, not that I was even thinking that clearly, and I left the house without really knowing where the nearest hospital WAS, and had to ask a policeman for directions and walk and walk. Then I was in the ER for four or five hours begging for antibiotics before anyone would even see me. I apologize for the drama, but srsly really please don't do this. Go to the dentist.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Not you, Abbs -- but people who HAVE insurance and avoid the dr because it's scary and there are needles and sometimes mildly bad news involved. Because even once I HAD a Real Job I still tried to avoid the dentist but it ends badly, it always ends badly.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't have insurance (practically no one does in NZ). so i'm looking at pretty hefty financial damages if i need any work done. i think that's scaring me more than the needles and pain.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
also: thanks laurel. i know you're right and i need to suck it up and just make an appointment.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
You will seriously be very fucking grateful and if you have it done (say if you have to have wisdom teeth pulled or root canals) maybe up to $35, at least $250 just for a cleaning & x-ray. Do it there, plz, you will be so glad. ONe, two days of your least favorite for overwhelming security & relief...half the reason I was afraid to go is I was afraid things wld be beyond help. But I was pleasantly surprised they weren't!
― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
oops I meant $3k not $35...maybe with the exchange rates it wld be cheaper here. Also, maybe there's a discount clinic in yr area?
― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it's maybe cheaper here. my best friend is getting her wisdoms pulled this week, and it's costing $2000 (NZD), but half of that is the cost of a general anaesthetic, because hers have to be cut out from deep in her gums.
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
In dental terminology an "impacted" tooth refers to a tooth that has failed to emerge fully into its expected position. This failure to erupt properly might occur because there is not enough room in the person's jaw to accommodate the tooth, or because the angulation of the tooth is improper.
So Abbott, your teeth are the opposite of impacted.
― mh, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
exchange rates would fuck me - NZ$1 buys US$0.72
― Rubyredd, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Aw thx mh! I knew something was wrong there. What is the proper word?
― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Erupted, I think.
― mh, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link
that is it. hhoray!
― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i just made a dentist appointment after 4 years of putting it off.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i am so afraid.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
It'll probably be fine, I didn't go for a decade, and I only had to have one filling replaced. Though, it that falls out, I have to get a crown which is ££££!
― jel --, Thursday, 24 April 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i wonder how hstencil's teeth are
― omar little, Thursday, 24 April 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i still haven't been (since the "scary things yr hairdresser sed" thread) and mine are "fine"
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i didn't go for four years between appointments. between filling five cavities and a cleaning, i've had to go six times since january
― impudent harlot, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
so, yknow, there's that
i didn't go for ten years and when i finally did go it was not all that bad. but i have "good teeth" whatever that means. ALSO: the first dentist i went to wanted to put me under to clean my teeth, so i found another dentist who didn't want to do that kind of dumb shit
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
can you tell when you have cavities? do they hurt? i've never had a cavity or root canal or any of that stuff but i'm convinced i'll have 12 of them this time.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
if youve never had a cavity, and you cant feel anything now that definitely feels like a cavity (extreme sensitivity to cold, air, food, etc), and its only been four years, i bet you will have a maximum of two cavities, and probably none.
something cool about having small teeth is that its easy to floss them!
― 69, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i definitely have a chipped toof but it doesn't hurt.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
my teeth are sort of horrible anyway (impacted wisdom teeth due to small jaw, sensitivity), but i've been taking much better care of them this year
― impudent harlot, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I stand by my "go for the gas" advice.
― Jaq, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
relax! if you've never had a cavity and aren't experiencing pain, then it's highly unlikely that after four years of inattention you'll need a root canal.
― lauren, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
also, i am SO AFRAID of the dentist but managed to go after about 10 years of putting it off and nothing terrible happened. i had to get my old fillings replaced, which wasn't fun, but it was totally tolerable.
― lauren, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, you're making me feel better! i just keep reading horrible stories of people needing $15k worth of dental work and getting really paranoid.
there is probably a lot of cosmetic stuff that is wrong with my teeth, they are very crooked. i had braces, but it was when i was in 2nd grade and half of my adult teeth hadn't even grown in yet...which seems kind of counter-intuitive. but hey i know nothing about orthidonture!
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
but i am not too worried about that. it's not like i ever smile or anything!
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
but hey i know nothing about orthidonture!
it's orthodontia
― gabbneb, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
whatever it is, no child of mine is ever getting a pallette expander because that was just unnecessarily cruel.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
funny you should mention that
my teeth are all hillbilly snaggly/crooked cause my mom didn't think I needed braces. "it's just cosmetic and you're a boy" anyway my son is undergoing the orthodontal experience now and holy shit I can't believe how complicated it is, before he gets the braces he has to wear all kinds of gear and spacers and retainers and last week they put something in his mouth that wasn't fitted right and he was in agony for few days. and the cost! when we first met w/the orthodonist he couldn't say the amount out loud, he wrote it down on a piece of paper and slipped it across the table (presumably smelling salts were on hand) like a funeral director.
maybe my mom was on to something.
― m coleman, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
see i had that stuff done and i still have hillbilly teeth! and my jaw is fucked up, possibly from that stuff. i don't understand why they don't wait until the kids at least have their adult teeth in to fix them? i'm sure there is some logic, but it seems questionable to me.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
like my palette probably would have expanded itself when i grew up, without the torture device?
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Been about 4-5 years, and I finally got round to getting the details of a dentist to make an appointment next week.
Things is I stopped bcz, in my every 6 months check up it used to always be 'fine' (also my former dentist went to the private sector). I know I should have gone about two years ago when I had this slight persisting ache. The slightness meant I kept putting it off, and when it finally subsided after a period I forgot all about it.
I'm terrified really. I really don't make this appointment...
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
when i underwent the orthodontia, basically anything that required my active intervention just didn't happen -- i wouldn't wear the headgear or the retainer or whatever. i still turned out relatively human-looking.
waiting for the tmj to kick in, tho
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
When my daughter was 8 or 9, she had a friend whose parents went overboard on the orthodontia - that poor kid seemed to have had every tooth in her mouth pulled, then when the new ones came in they immediately got wrapped in metal and clamped into place. I couldn't imagine subjecting my kid to that much painful intervention, so she has one bicuspid that is out of line. Which she hates and occasionally blames me for not slapping her in braces, but if she really wants it dealt with she can pay for it herself now.
― Jaq, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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ive had cavities and have some tooth pain :-/
― deej, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Me too. I would actually fall asleep with them on and then in my sleep take them off and throw them clear across the room. My teeth totally shifted and I hate them because I swear I was Jaq's daughter's friend. I had 10 baby teeth pulled at 8 to make way for braces which I then had until I was 14. I deserve perfect teeth dammit! I just wonder what the hell I would have looked like if I hadn't had all that crap done.
― ENBB, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I am also going to the dentist in a couple weeks and scared shitless. I already know I need to have one of my wisdom teeth pulled and am dreading what else they'll say I need done.
― ENBB, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
wisdom teeth weren't that big of a deal for me because i had them done at once, while i was under general anesthetic. i'm a big fan of being unconscious whenever possible.
― lauren, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't go to the dentist as a teenager, and in my 20s (I'm 25) I've spent well over $6K fixing them.. with insurance these last three years. $2400 to remove my four grossly rotted wisdom teeth that took years to come out. I blame my Dad and his "we don't need dental care" attitude :(
GO TO THE DENTIST! SEND YOUR KIDS! etc
I went to the dentist yesterday. Three cavities, lucky me. I have teeth like marshmallows!
― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
See, I'm TERRIFIED of getting general anesthesia so that sounds awful to me. I've had one wisdom tooth pulled already (they all came in without incident) and that was a "Hey we're just going to fill that cavity today oh wait no we're not - it's too deep. How'd you like to get a wisdom tooth out with no advance warning or prep time?" type situation and ended with me in tears because I was so scared. The anticipation was worse than the actual extraction though.
― ENBB, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I'm most afraid they're going to say I need root canal because everyone makes that sound so scary.
― ENBB, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
root canals aren't so much painful as they are tedious
― omar little, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i felt like i was sitting there forever. bored out of my skull as they bored into it.
― omar little, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Wisdom teeth was actually kind of fun with the drugs and all
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i didn't mind getting my one wisdom tooth pulled. it took about thirty seconds.
― omar little, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't get any drugs! My dentist is an asshole.
― ENBB, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I was under completely. When i saw the shit going into my veins my eyes rolled back
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i had four of them pulled, and they had to drill into the center of the lower to break them up for extraction. anesthetics don't work well for me; i woke from the general sobbing in pain.
― remy bean, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
omg that sounds awful.
― ENBB, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
oof, yea mine were broken up. I woke up and said "when do we start"
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
it was pretty terrible. what's worse is that i couldn't have any of the painkillers the next day for reasons of allergy, so i had to try and numb the pain with tylenol, which is about as effective as sugar-water
― remy bean, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i had all four wisdom teeth out, and yeah, my bottom two had to be broken up before extraction. i was still a little bit awake when they started, it felt like the dentist was leaning on my lower jaw with a railroad spike with his full weight. then i went under. pretty freaky.
good luck ENBB!!
― gff, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't really comprehend a dentist getting away with putting someone under for a clean up! That's weird.
I was having tooth pain until I went to the dentist, and then after they said that there was nothing wrong, it went. It was probably the guilt of not going for so long.
― jel --, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i woke up sobbing too! but it was after the surgery, at least.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I woke up from my laughing gas after having my wisdom teeth taken out, and said "you're so pretty!" to my Grandmother who was sitting across from me waiting for me to wake up. Awww.
Root canals don't hurt nearly as much as the cavity that necessitated my getting a root canal! Ugh.
― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
my wisdom teeth are all fine and dandy
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
my friend's brother, an alcoholic/substance abuser, had to be put under for a cleaning after not going to the dentist for several decades.
― lauren, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i go to the dentist 3x/yr. i'm not gonna do the wisdom teeth thing unless absolutely necessary.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
You're not making me feel better!! See, the wisdom tooth I have to get pulled is already broken so I'm pretty sure it's just going to shatter as soon as they go near it. ugh. I know I have to go but it sucks. Maybe I should get over my fear of being put under.
― ENBB, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I wouldn't have done the wisdom tooth thing either but the one that has been pulled and the one that needs to be pulled both had cavities. The dentist said I have really soft cavity prone teeth. :-(
― ENBB, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Linds my mom had a palate expander! In her late thirties! She had a very narrow jaw, though, and needed it to fit her teeth in (even though she had like 5 pulled). It hurt tons but she lost a fair bit of weight by not being able to eat for a day after every half-turn... o_O
Then she had braces for a while, then one of those clear trays. They told her since she waited until adulthood her teeth will never STAY in place without help, they'll always eventually try to shift back if she stops using the retainer.
― Laurel, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
waited until adulthood her teeth will never STAY in place without help, they'll always eventually try to shift back if she stops using the retainer.
I looked into getting invisalign or something like that because I'm so mad that my teeth shifted and was told the same thing.
― ENBB, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Blessedly, Mr. Gladwell makes his point without reference to Oprah, that Great Connector in the Sky. Instead, he does a splendid job describing mere mortals such as Texas economist (and "Maven") Mark Alpert: avid reader of Consumer Reports , electronics wizard, evangelist and all-around know-it-all, a paragon of the "pathologically helpful." You know the type: hell at dinner parties; heaven when you're shopping for a car, or need emergency Yankees tickets. Walking data banks like Mr. Alpert–along with the Connectors, and the Salesmen–are crucial to the spread of social epidemic. Together they explain why the New York family in need of orthodontia will end up, sooner or later, in the office of Marc Lemchen, D.M.D., P.C., Park Avenue at 62nd Street (570-2333).
looool
― gabbneb, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
ENBB, I had my wisdom teeth pulled under general anesthesia and had no problems at all. Sobbing (also laughing) after any kind of anesthetic is very common and generally not related to pain but as a reaction to the drugs. My younger sister is deathly afraid of going under, and had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled in the same session while wide awake - she prepared with some self-hypnosis and I think acupuncture.
― Jaq, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm a big fan of being unconscious whenever possible.
yesssss. except that when i woke up, the anaesthetic make me puke, which is mildly unpleasant after having yr wisdom teeth pulled. other than that, it wasn't bad at all.
i was in high school and had to read 'canticle for leibowitz' during my recovery, which was kind of a downer.
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i should get another retainer
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i think teeth & jaw just shift around no matter what, right? but yeah i'm pretty o_O abt going to the orthodontist as an adult i remember this pink putty tray thing they put in to take impressions and it tasted like mint+plastic+cement but there was something sort of satisfying about the way it went schlock!fhup! when they pulled it out. obv they wld have to use that again. also the around-the-head xray.
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
if i actually had money i wld be all about this and skin lasers
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
and some other stuff
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
sometimes when you have pain and think you have cavities, it's actually just really sensitive teeth which may or may not be related to gum issues which may or may not be caused by having too much plaque which may or may not easily go away.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
boob job? xpost
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah anyways i'd try the lasers too. and ass implants, obvs.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
how about boobs in your teeth that would be fun
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i wanna get diamonds implanted in my nips
― bell_labs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
my boobs should get jobs!
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
to pay for my orthodontics
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't know what kind of applicable skills and abilities they have tho. i mean their resume is all "1989 - 2008 - sitting there, wearing shirts, getting in the way, sometimes being awesome, yknow whatever"
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I had all four wisdom teeth pulled over the summer, and my mom went with me so that she could drive me home. The doctor showed us the calculation: $175 per tooth without sedation, $800 with (or maybe it was a package deal--I can't remember, and my mom and I looked at each other and decided to go forgo the savings. It was fine, really, the worst part was hearing the loud crack!s. The dentist also advised against sedation--he said it wasn't really necessary.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 25 April 2008 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i went to the dentist today. i nearly fainted when he showed me the fee schedule of what my procedures (which i still haven't had done) would cost. i'm thinking i'll just wait until that dream job with the dental plan comes through. dear democrat presidential candidates: you better be serious about universal health care.
the more dentists i see, the more convinced i am that they're all snake-oil salesmen.
― get bent, Friday, 25 April 2008 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you're right.
When I finally went to one about 18 months ago, he said I had a hairline fracture of my right rearmost molar, should be crowned, etc., only cost $600 if you want to go ahead and do it, blah blah. It's never given me a minute of trouble so I said no thanks. Oh and three cavities mysteriously turned into four when the filling started.
― Rock Hardy, Friday, 25 April 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone used care credit (or whatever it's called)? seems like a ripoff even if you go for the "no interest" option -- it's still around 22% APR, and if you want the extended payment option the interest is 11% on top of that. on the plus side, it comes in handy if the dentist wants all the money upfront and you don't actually HAVE the money.
― get bent, Friday, 25 April 2008 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wow. I thought I had contributed to every teeth thread ever.
I didn't go to the dentist for, like, 14 years. Basically as soon as they took the braces off and I went to college I just never went to a dentist, probably from a residual resentment of my creepy twin brother orthodontists.
When I went, about five years ago (because a tooth just broke into a zillion pieces while I was eating)I eneded up having four cavities (and fillings) and three root canals.
My wisdom teeth never came in and never became impacted, so I guess I lucked out. I didn't get (wasn't offered) general anaesthetia for the root canals - just the basic huge needle filled with numbiness shot into four or five gum areas. Oh and a crown for the shattered tooth. I had it all done in a three or four month time period - so, I was at the dentists or the oral surgeons, once a week for many weeks. it wasn't that bad! maybe I felt empowered by having it all done at once - like, I've been avoiding this for so many years, and now I'm really taking care of business!
I also had the palette widener, which actually has made my teeth more fucked up (and i will repeat - creepy twin brother orthodontists). My dentist(s) are always trying to get me to go to an orthodontist and get braces again. I went, once, a few years ago, and the guy suggested breaking my jaw and re-setting it to get my teeth aligned. Uh...no. I mean, what the fuck - it's the twenty first century! Break my jaw?! (Also, if something that drastic has to happen I would prefer going down after some gigantic brawl.)
So, not sure if any of this is helpful, but I didn't suffer all that much through the months of weekly fillings and/or root canals.
― aimurchie, Friday, 25 April 2008 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man i had kind of major emotional spaz yesterday b/c of profound realization of jaw misalignment issues which have become more pronounced in the past year but also come and go and have something to do with neuromuscular issue of some sort (involves some tmj pain and even intermittent numbness/drooping/crookedness of one side of face. fun! dumb.) so anyway i called a recommended orthodontist and they were like, well, since you're not a still-growing teenager and this is a jaw issue and not a teeth issue, then here's the number of the maxillofacial surgeon we work with. aaah! so i looked into it more and am going to try to avoid the major surgery on jaw route thanks... b/c it wld seem the misalignment actually gets better when i do yoga every day and exercise. which seems weird to me but hey. am going to see what accupuncture & chiropractic stuff do b/c wtf. also i am using my left hand on the mouse! it is weird that is all
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
rrrobyn i feel you on all of that. tmj may be causing a bunch of problems for me, but nobody can really say for sure if it's tmj cause they don't KNOW very much about it and i would NOT trust any of them doing surgery on my jaw or my spine or whatever it is that's fucked up.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
myosfacial pain is making me a really unpleasant person to be around these days.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, that's really saying something! My chronic foot pain just makes me look like a whiny whimp for not wanting to walk places. :D
― Laurel, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
aw man :( yeah i'm getting on it now b/c it's only going to get worse and also i've got a job with a decent insurance plan. and omg i had like 6 years of high-quality orthodontic treatment via braces and appliances etc when i was a teenager - my jaw should be perfect! so yeah wtf will re-align self in whatever ways possible xpost pain blows - i am all about doing anything to not have it. like dudes i am off the beer and the wheat and the sugar even.
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
see, beer is one of those things that i think helps more than it hurts :D
i am getting an MRI in like, one hour. if they can't figure out how to fix me after this i will be all over the alternative medicines.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
my dentist appointment is in less than one hour. terrifying.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
A cleaning or check-up or what? I can imagine you being terrified at a head-lice search.
― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
cleaning & check up but i haven't been in 4-5 years. but i don't know what you are implying about my hygeine w/ the lice thing.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
My grandmother went back to the dentist recently because some procedure they did a month or so ago was bothering her, and they told her she needed a root canal, so they started, and then the dude had to stop because it was more involved that he realized and he didn't have the right tools, so they sent her to the dental surgeon next door, and I'm not sure if that guy did anything or not but basically they can't finish until May 27th. Do WHAT?
― Kerm, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
so annoying. all dentisty goes like this unless you're rich. haha.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
good luck BL. i always worry about dental appointments but the feel-good factor coming out the door after is one of the purest i've experienced.
― darraghmac, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Had a cleaning earlier this week. They said my teeth were in better shape than ever, which is nice.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
My dentist always tells me that I have great teeth and that I really need to start flossing regularly. I figure why mess with a good thing?
― Kerm, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
they want me to do their job at home for free
― and what, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
And then charge me to check my work!
― Kerm, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
My filling fell out yesterday :(
I'm gonna ask for a gold tooth :)
― jel --, Thursday, 15 May 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
oh that was fine. there is nothing wrong with my teeth besides the fact that they are all going to break off eventually if i don't get braces. but fuck no i am not getting braces.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 15 May 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh not flossing is gross, i mean, i didn't floss regularly when i was younger and some of my best friends don't floss, but i don't know why. i am total flossing advocate xposts
i'm glad your dental visit was fine, l! i wonder if you could get a retainer or that invisiline thing or something that is not braces? get a second opinion maybe?
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 15 May 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Going to the dentist was always weird because my mom was my dental hygienist. Like, an hour before she was making me a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich cut into triangles like I like them, y'know, cuz she's mom, then suddenly she's dressed like a mad scientist and cramming painful esoteric machinery into my mouth.
Yeah I totally haven't had a check up in like 5 years and I have somewhat poor dental hygiene. Yeeeeesh.
― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 15 May 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
The dentist started drilling my tooth without anaesthetic yesterday. Oww. Should I pay £350 to get a gold tooth that no one will be able to see? Or just stick to the standard crown for £198? Decisions, decisions.
― jel --, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 08:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I hate when they do that. "We can stop and give you anaesthetic if it gets too painful." Okay but by that point it will be too late! My sympathies.
Where is this tooth? And can you afford the gold tooth?
― Maria, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The standard crown will stay in place for longer.
― snoball, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
do you mean a crown or a fillinf because thats a crazy cheap crown
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
filling
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, how much for a filling? i pay about 75 euro per filling.
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
id expect a filling to be US$150ish and a crown/cap to be US$1200ish
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
NHS standard rate for a crown is £198! I thought it was way more. There are 4 payment bands for NHS treatment: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/Chiefprofessionalofficers/Chiefdentalofficer/DH_4138821
― jel --, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
oh. so this is no cosmetic dentistry we're talking about here.
seriously, dont go with gold.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Nah, I don't think I will. I kinda want to get a new laptop instead. Plus a gold tooth won't really make me a pirate.
― jel --, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm having a gold crown fitted on a the NHS tomorrow.
fingers crossed.
― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I made my first appt. for a checkup since...um...maybe the first Bush administration. Bush 41. Possibly early Clinton years.
― Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
you'll be fine. you'll just have some cavities to fill, maybe a route canal or two. nothing could be so bad. just don't fuck up your gums, they hate that.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I just made my first appointment since 2005! Been flossing though.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i went for the first time in 3+ years a couple of weeks ago. no cavities, but they did do a whole hell of a lot of scraping.
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh i hate that, and then all the blood :/
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
PS what's with all my girlfriends getting these caps when they were little? it's like, no wonder you never had any cavities. "sealants" or something. wtf is that, why did i never hear of that?
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
> they did do a whole hell of a lot of scraping
I anticipate the use of a circular sander.
― Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i got sealants in my molars at some point in high school?
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
that prolly would've helped me in my chips ahoy or bust phase
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i also have a cap over my front bottom tooth where my sister threw a rock at me and knocked it out (one of my first permanent teeth). it was all because i wouldn't let her listen to my michael jackson thriller album. i would shut my door and turn the volume on my turntable so low that i would have to lay my head right against the speaker (no headphones) to hear it. the rock was indoors because her 4 year old sunday school class had decorated them with felt & glitter to say "Jesus Loves Me".
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
That is a great story and needs to go in the mini family anecdotes thread.
― Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i went this week to a new dentist. she is so hot, and so is the dental assistant. and i'm fucking sitting there with my mouth open, gums out, drooling all over the place.
― cutty, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
you should have made your desire for them a little less obvious
― the gush of yesterday (omar little), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
bahahaha
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
It's been a good 4+ years for me. I'm finally seeing a student at OHSU day after tomorrow. I take good care of my teeth but they feel a little achy overall...
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
hey people in the US/AUS,
if you need a lot of dental work done, like over $1000, we have found a really good dentist here in Cusco (Peru). A round trip for two weeks from the US is around $700. I just got a new crown for $80 (!) and three fillings for $100. That would have been around $1200 from my dentist in the states. So even with the plane ticket you come out ahead.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
that actually sounds kind of fun. take a vacation to peru, get all your dental work done and then blow the money you saved on a good time.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
that's what I'm sayin! I'll be happy to give the info to any interested parties, the dude is a total professional.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
wehre did he go though, peru dental school?
― cutty, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
looks like it, yeah. he's got a bunch of diplomas etc on his wall.
my gf is there right now getting two new crowns put in.
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
wow you guys are just goin crazy
― Surmounter, Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ this is pretty common, btw. def knew ppl that went to like costa rica for dental work, cuz it was cheap and you got a vacation out of it
i went to the dentist a few weeks ago after....2 years? 28 years and still no cavities, suckas. the dental asst said i brush too hard, maybe :-/
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
ohh yea like the enamel is wearing off? i've started to think about that too lately -- i can be kind of an excitable brusher
― Surmounter, Thursday, 29 January 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
i am going to the dentist. my tooth BROKE!!!!!there was an old filling that was always strange. i felt a tiny crack in it last week and then sunday the back corner FELL OFF. WTF?estimate for crown is $$$$$$ i am screwed.
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
shit i wanna go to peru for this stuff! sister is there now, i'd have a place to stay.
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Double extraction tomorrow. One of 'em is a molar split in half. The other is a supernumerary. VICODIN WEEKEND!
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i wish there was a way to get vicodin out of this.
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
instead all my student loan $ for the semester will go to paying it off instead of redecorating my house :((((
girl, i feel your pain. i'm sorry. but this will make you stronger.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking better
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
you'll at least get hydrocodone tza. V expensive hydrocodone.
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
for a crown?
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
eastern europe is the big destination for dental holidays here. sofia is the most common spot, i think. will do it some day, just get them all ripped out and replaced clark gable stylee.
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
well, if the tooth broke im assuming root canal but i could be very wrong
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
also, sedation dentists will give you valium the night before your appt and a whole cocktail of benzos to take on the day
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
actually not sure a root canal is necessary bc of the way the filling is there. god, i hope a root canal is not necessary.... al;ksdgj :(
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
just dont become the guy my dentist told me about who started knocking his teeth out for the codiene/benzos
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
it might not be. im no dentist.
it won't be. root canal is for decay, usually, no?
oy valium
― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i actually am in possession of some valium but valium is no vicodin.
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
prague is apparently a top destination for cheap dental work too - by best friend and her husband took a 'dentistry' holiday their awhile back.
― just1n3, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i love how everybody's known all about these dentist holidays and i never had a clue
― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
right? i love multitasking! i should have been on this.
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
its like the old days when women went to some alpine spa in europe to have a little work done. that always sounded like fun to me.
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
not always they can also be done for cracked teeth and when i had a tooth knocked out i had to have a double root canal done because of the infection.
also tza you may not want to read this but i had to have the procedure done w/o any anaesthetic becuase the infection made it ineffective and it was, by a really wide margin, the most painful moment in my life
― Trigga Happy Fraiser (Lamp), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i do not think it is infected. that is why i am getting it taken care of NOW.
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
way to turn it back into a nightmare thread lamp eugh
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
omg lamp :(
― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah the valium is probably not worth the price of the sedation dentist. My guy stopped what he was doing with me once to go bid on a $450,000 dining table + chairs on ebay.
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
As it turns out, I have gum disease and need $400 worth of scaling. : (
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
were your gums bleeding?
― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
(are)
― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
dear presidetn obama,pls to give me healthcare soon.<3,tza
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost: no, it's not that bad yet, but there's plaque under my gum line.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
tbh i have not been to a dentist in a long time and i'm scared they're going to tell me my whole mouth needs to be replaced for the sum of $569,399.45
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
me too- hence prague dreams of when i'm rich.
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
if you pay upfront they might take off $99.45
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
o-rnaldo bama
― bobby dijindal (and what), Thursday, 26 February 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
is the tooth/filling old enough that you might have had a root canal and forgotten? it is unusual, although not unheard of, for teeth that are still alive to break. once you have the RC, that's when they start getting brittle.
I have had three teeth break, all had RCs. now I have nightmares about it.
― sleeve, Thursday, 26 February 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
the nyu college of dentistry might be cheaper than a regular dentist
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 February 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I have had one root canal. It was totally painless and I got no painkillers for it afterward.
Coincidentally, I had to visit the dentist this morning. She wanted to get a better xray of the area under my gold tooth. There's a dark spot under the roots. She said it could be scar tissue from the root canal (best case) or a cyst or an abscess. I had the root canal 4 years ago, so I'm hoping it's scar tissue. If it gets worse, they may have to redo the root canal or if it gets really bad, operate. For the time being, she's just going to xray it once a year.
― ----> (libcrypt), Thursday, 26 February 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i wish this would allow me to get an awesome grill or something.
anyway, he says the filling broke, and then broke the tooth. he thought we might be able to do an onlay, which is slightly cheaper than a crown, but after looking at x-ray said i should put a new filling in or get a crown. since a crown lasts longer and i'm not really feeling too great about weird fillings, i am getting a crown. he drilled out the old filling and put on a temp crown for now. gotta get the rest done in a series of visits (impressions, then after the crown is made, the application).ugh. so much $$$.
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
damn im gonna floss hard 2nite
― max, Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
on the lol side of things, this dentist likes his ipod and was playing wilco while drilling away at my tooth, and asked me about my musical tastes. he was pretty nice. he also said if i have like, a decent portion paid by the time we finish this process i can do the rest in monthly installments.
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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― bobby dijindal (and what), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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― if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it (bernard snowy), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
it was also weird watching it all unfold in reflection on the dude's glasses. i don't remember that from before, but i was very relieved that they didn't have any of those stressed cat 'hang in there' posters on the ceiling.
― yur twit (tehresa), Thursday, 26 February 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
omg the jaw pain today ;(
― yur twit (tehresa), Friday, 27 February 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
:( drugs?
― Surmounter, Friday, 27 February 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
tza take ibuprofen (not acetaminophen)
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Friday, 27 February 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
My guy stopped what he was doing with me once to go bid on a $450,000 dining table + chairs on ebay.
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i hope this is a fucking joke.
― ian, Friday, 27 February 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
nope.
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Friday, 27 February 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus fuck
― ian, Friday, 27 February 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.movie-blast.com/images/steve-martin/little-shop-of-horrors.jpg
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 27 February 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
took some ibuprofen. the whole right side of my face hurts (like the upper jaw, too). is this normal? probably, and i am just being whiney.
― yur twit (tehresa), Friday, 27 February 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Tee minus two hours! Got my valiums, got my vikes.
― Oilyrags, Friday, 27 February 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i want vikes!
― yur twit (tehresa), Friday, 27 February 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw hottie dentist and hottie dental assistant again yesterday. i think i'll be going to the dentist a lot more often.
― cutty, Friday, 27 February 2009 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j278/oilyrags/toofiescropped.jpg
pix or it didn't happen
― Oilyrags, Friday, 27 February 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
eeeeeeeee
― yur twit (tehresa), Sunday, 1 March 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
my temp crown fell off!i left my dentist a message but i don't know what to do.
i don't go to the dentist often, but i have been blessed witha near-perfect mouth-- for my entire life, i've brushed once a day, i've never flossed, and yet i've never had a cavity and my teeth are straight. except for the horrors of my impacted wisdom teeth (i looked like a woodland animal cartoon for a week), no problems. ever.
so weird.
― the table is the table, Sunday, 1 March 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Trust me, it's never too late to start having problems. I was the same for many years until one day I woke up with nasty intermittent pain in a back molar. The tooth was a mess of rot; when I got to a dentist, he took an impression, sawed it off and I was root canal'd in a hour, gold toof'd in a few days.
― Suggestbandium (libcrypt), Monday, 2 March 2009 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i just got back from a check up and everything is perfect.
Does anyone here use a soniccare? pp bought me one in dec (by request) and i cant keep that thing in my mouth for more than 10 seconds because it tickles so much. Its hard to brush your teeth while you are laughing.
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Monday, 2 March 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf why has dentist not returned my call about temporary crown falling offage!?
― yur twit (tehresa), Monday, 2 March 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
my housemate once marched into his dentist's and demanded his broken tooth be fixed despite the fact that he had no money or insurance coverage.
it worked an' all.
― speaking as a mwahahahaha (Upt0eleven), Monday, 2 March 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
my new toothbrush tickles the sides of my tongue. it's a little distracting but i've learned to combat it by adopting a 'dog with head out the car window' expression while brushing. now my girlfriend can't watch me brush my teeth without laughing, but that's her problem i guess.
― Anthony, I am not an Alcoholic & Drunk (darraghmac), Monday, 2 March 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
they called and said i could come in today and have the temp put back on, or i could just wait til monday. they did not seem to care. lol!
― yur twit (tehresa), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
My temp crown came off too. Just don't eat there.
― Suggestbandium (libcrypt), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah. i think it is v sensitive bc of nerve exposure after the drilling down and by gum feels a lil swollen. i will power through it, though!
― yur twit (tehresa), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
First cleaning in 10 years today, and basically clean bill of health except "floss more." I AM HOV!
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
My total bill from my 4+ years of no dentist came to $610, w/scaling plus two fillings.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
going back next week for the real crown. this temp has stayed on so far!still getting sporadic jaw/gum pain, though :(
― yur twit (tehresa), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
after my last visit to the dentist (first time in almost four years), i resolved to floss every day until my next checkup. i can't wait for my triumphant return in June... unless dude is all "yo, you really need to be flossing" at which point i will lol and then punch him in the nose.
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"My total bill from my 4+ years of no dentist came to $610"
amazingly,thats exactly what happend to me today at the dentist :(
― Zeno, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel incredibly lucky. I do brush extremely thoroughly though.
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
two fillings on the right side. $258. Face still pretty numb.
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Friday, 10 April 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd like to have all my teeth extracted and replaced with some sort of titanium/polymer non-corrosive, basically indestructible set. I would just give them a daily rinse and not have to worry about setting foot into a dentist's office ever again.
― Imaginary Dead Baseball Players Live in My Cornfield (Pillbox), Friday, 10 April 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.comicvine.com/evelyn-cream/29-30980/
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Friday, 10 April 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Urrgh. I havent been to the dentist since 1993 (yeah. I know. Shuddup). My teeth are generally fine - I dont eat sugary foods at all, brush regular, etc etc
Recently: bad bad BAD tinnitus, worse than usual (I always have it but this is shitting me to tears), an ache in the left side of my jaw and shoulder. What feels like a nagging canker sore in the space where my wisdom tooth was that I've realised has come and gone for... ages.
I suppose I should get it seen to but now I'm worried I've got mouth cancer or something horrible.
― one art, please (Trayce), Thursday, 16 April 2009 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
youve probably got an infection under the gum. all they do is get in there, shove some medicine of some sort in, give you antibiotics and send you on your way
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Thursday, 16 April 2009 02:06 (fifteen years ago) link
That sounds pretty drama-free. And its a good excuse to go for a general cavity check and clean anyways. Its annoying dental's not covered under medicare, but oh well.
― one art, please (Trayce), Thursday, 16 April 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah. that would be my guess because ive had it and the pain is so severe you and encompassing that you start to wonder where its really coming from. if its under a tooth youll have to go the root canal route, i think.
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Thursday, 16 April 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
-you obv
Christ it better not be a root canal job! I mean it's on a spot where no tooth is (either my wisdom or back molar would have been yanked out back there - I got so many teeth removed when i had braces I've lost track). But yeah I better get it seen to, cos ow.
― one art, please (Trayce), Thursday, 16 April 2009 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
do go, and go soon, it could be an abscess and they can be dangerous. you might just need antibiotics. but root canals are not nearly as bad as people make out, i've had a couple of them and they were no trouble at all.
― estela, Thursday, 16 April 2009 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
― Imaginary Dead Baseball Players Live in My Cornfield (Pillbox), Friday, April 10, 2009 4:00 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark
did you know that you can already do this, with your own teeth?
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 16 April 2009 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
All the dentists in my 'hood are crazy shouty russians, they scare me, but I better get it done.
― one art, please (Trayce), Thursday, 16 April 2009 06:27 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost: fuck that. yours and my teeth will eventually rot, within our life-span, regardless of personal maintenance, unless we seek the regular care of a professional. Our teeth have not evolved with us! Yeah, so give me the fake shits then (not dentures, but like badasss teeth)
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Thursday, 16 April 2009 06:52 (fifteen years ago) link
After last weeks 'deep debridement' (sounds DIRTY don't it?) I was informed that my gums are a little saggy and therefore I should increase my intake of folic acid and vitamin C. So, apparently I have scurvy.
― Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
or youre pregnant
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I just look pregnant.
― Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh I went to the dentist in the end. Despite 15 years since the last visit, and even that one being the first in some years, still no cavities, not a one. Havent had afilling since my early teens. Teeth are fine - only needed cleaning.
This is what you get for never eating any sugary food or soft drink/fruit juice, kids.
― 65daysofsugban (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
£1200 FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 4 June 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i would never pay that mnuch for a fuuuuuuuck
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
but yeah fuuuuck having teeth, they really aren't worth the hassle
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Rotting teeth: My friend and I have just parted company because he refuses to do anything about his lower teeth which are brown. They look rotten to me. Molars and others are missing. He has upper dentures. He is a very healthy 81 year old man and says at his age he is absolutely adamant about not doing anything about his lower teeth. Yet he expects kisses which I will not give him, telling him "I am not going to kiss a germ and bacteria laden mouth." Wouldn't my own health be at risk? Anyway his mouth is a complete turn-off under the circumstances. Also, if a man with rotten teeth nibbles on a woman's breast, isn't it possible that the bacteria can travel down the mammary glands and eventually cause cancer? ... Visitor from NJ
I has a rotting, broken tooth.Pull or crown? I call dental school to set up apt, and apparently there is an initial diagnostic appointment but a crown is $600 (at the dental school!!) so like, should I just get this shit pulled? DIY dentistry tips?
― ian, Monday, 26 October 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Pliers and a bottle of Jameson.
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I avoided the dentist from being 11 til I was 29 and one of my molars finished up like that. My tooth got pulled. If nothing else getting your tooth pulled is cheaper (on NHS rates in the UK I paid something like £45, crowns cost something like £200)... Crowns are only viable if the base and root of your tooth are sound.
― T B, Monday, 26 October 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
ian, i think if you get a tooth pulled it can cause long term problems with the rest of your teeth: the other ones start shifting to fill the gap, which isn't always a good thing.
― DAN P3RRY MAD AT GRANDMA (just1n3), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
crown for sure dude, i know $600 is a lot of dough but if you dont youll end up sinking a way more money into your teeth later on
― Bobby Wo (max), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a tooth like this, it formed without enamel and was rotting away. had parents' dental insurance so i got it crowned and i'm so glad. it is a lot of money but really really try to work something out. missing a tooth will cause you a load of problems.
― harbl, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
A crown is definitely preferable if you have a choice, but then I know people who've had trouble with crowns too. The tooth I had pulled was done 8 years ago and I've neither had any problems (I've had regular checkups and no work done since) and my teeth haven't moved at all.
― T B, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
ok i totally forgot to add i'm going to have to have that tooth pulled eventually and have an implant put in because last christmas i went to the dentist and she drilled a hole in it after i was having serious pain that mysteriously disappeared before i even saw her. then told me the crown isn't permanent because the tooth will continue to deteriorate underneath it. it's the second to last molar on top. i think if i had it pulled it would mess up my face.
so yeah it prob depends on a lot of things and the dentist should let you know the long-term consequences of either option, obv. i just don't want ian to go around without his tooth!
― harbl, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I had my back-most upper molar crowned after a root canal; I kept cracking the crown (lol bruxism) and eventually I got an infection and the tooth had to be extracted. Endodontist was all ready to get me going down the implant route to fill in the space, which was going to cost MAD CASH. However my awesome dentist looked at it and my X-rays and said it was fine to go sans tooth; it wouldn't mess up my other teeth or my bite or anything. He said something about the "32 teeth myth" which I thought was kind of o_O for a dentist. Anyhow I took his advice and am living happily ever after without that back molar.
Advice not likely to apply to anything but a backmost molar, however.
― quincie, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Ow ow ow ow owww.
I have chipped my third canine. So the back of it is now really super-sharp. Now this wouldn't be such a bother if it weren't for the fact that it keeps catching food and also my tongue CAN NOT LEAVE IT ALONE so I keep nearly slicing mine own tongue on the really sharp bit.
Now, really, it needs to come out. No one needs three canines. But I haven't been to a dentist in so long I wouldn't even know where to start. (and I'm sure I have lots else wrong with my teeth, but it's only this tooth that ever bothers me really badly.)
HALP.
Are NHS dentists a myth like the tooth fairy?
― come to mummy (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Have to sign up to some 'care plan' thesedays.
Well, when I say "have to", who knows...
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
NHS dentists exist! But you'll probably have to make a hundred calls to find one. Maybe since you're happy / preferring to just have it removed rather than go for something difficult and costly you could visit the nearest dental school. They're generally happy to set nervous students loose on drop-ins.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link
YES BUT WHAT ABOUT NERVOUS DROP-INS.
There's a reason I haven't been to the dentist in 10 years.
And I would actually like it replaced. With a GOLD canine. That would be expensive.
It's really too bad that my employers don't do cosmetic dentistry, because then I could get it done for free. :-(
― come to mummy (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Cosmic dentistry!
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not sure if that sounds more like a Stereolab song or an Aphex Twin album.
― come to mummy (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
cosmetic dentistry = first full week after my big lotto win
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, as much as I slag off cosmetic surgery, if I ever did fall into huge amounts of money, I'd walk across the road to Claudia Schiffer's dentist and open my mouth as wide as I could and say FIX THIS FUCKING MESS.
(I mean, I had some cosmetic dental surgery when I was a small child, when I first moved to the States, otherwise my teeth would be even MORE fucked up Big Book Of British Smiles stylee, but I guess the whole surgery and recovery and having to wear a retainer for years afterwards just traumatised me so much that I stopped going to dentists as soon as I was able.)
― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
((I can still remember quite clearly some of the seriously fucked up hallucinations that I had while under anaesthesia for that surgery, and this was, like, 30 years ago!))
Argh argh argh, now I have seriously scared myself out of going to the dentist and I'm just going to suffer this chipped tooth rather than face that horror again.
― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"Fucked up hallucinations" sounds like nitrous, which they don't use any more, do they?
Good luck with the tooth, anyway.
― subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
This would have been about 1979. I've no idea what they use now.
(but if my wrist op is anything to go by, the Cluster style auditory hallucinations from whatever they're using now are much better than the old insane medical instrument hallucinations the previous anaesthetic used to do)
((if only I could use lucid dreaming techniques to make being put under a nicer experience))
― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
stroszek that shit
― 囧 (dyao), Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Sometimes I wish I was the chauffeur of ILX, driving everyone to appointments they were terrified of and calming them down on the way. "There now, it'll be over before you know it." I'd be good at it, but it wld not be a lucrative venture.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Thursday, 19 November 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
and i would probably physically assault you in order to escape as we neared the dentists. sorry :(
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 November 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
You have turned my mild wish into a monkey's paw nightmare...I guess I should know better having seen all of the Wishmaster movies.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Thursday, 19 November 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, I'm quite good at turning up to appointments that have been booked. What I'm seriously not good at doing is booking those appointments in the first place. (look how long it took me to get that awful growth on my wrist checked out.)
― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I HAVE TO GET EMERGENCY ROOT CANAL TOMORROW
:( :( :(
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry to hear that ENBB - hope it's relatively ok
I put off going to the dentist's for... about twenty years? Basically I've still got a milk tooth (lol dentally retarded), and back when I was 15 they said, we'll pull the milk tooth out the other tooth SHOULD come through, but if it doesn't we'll attach a little chain to it and pull it down bit by bit. And I said 'no fucking way' and didn't go back for twenty years.
Finally decided it was time to be adult about this, in spite of the fact I've still got a milk tooth, and went back just at the end of last year. Bricking it. Sweaty palms in the waiting room.
And it was fine! Nothing doing. 1 very disappointed dentist, who saw megabucks coming their way, but 1 v happy me.
Sorry, that's not very helpful. I'm not being smug, honest. I do genuinely hope it's about as painless as the phrase 'root canal' makes it sound like it can be.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
my lil bro had this done last month it was fine e, he didn't feel a thing
― Streep? That's where I'm a-striking! (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks guys. I'm sure it won't be that bad. I mean, it can't be worse than how it feels now. Since it's a temp/emergency root canal It'll only take 45 mins and then I'll have to go back for the rest in a couple weeks. It's more annoying than anything especially after being really sick for a week. Not my month!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
gl
― Streep? That's where I'm a-striking! (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
My third canine finally shattered and came out in bits on Friday.
So today I went to the dentist for teh first time in (I had to ring my Mum and ask) 25 years. One of my colleagues at work had to ring the dentist and make the appointment for me, I was too phobic to do it.
jesus christ I am high. When are the tip of my nose and eyelids coming back online? They numbed it all so they could pull out the little bits still stuck in the gum. Oh, the weird numb pressure. They are going to refer me for DENTAL IMPLANTS. Isn't that something off the X-Files?
― Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
I am so disappointed that I only have the two requisite canines instead of three now. I hope that I can specify that my dental implant is a third canine again. I would not look like myself without it.
― Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
When are the tip of my nose and eyelids coming back online?
I love this question.
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:19 (eleven years ago) link
They'll implant a fake tooth that looks like the real one it is replacing.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
The tooth it is replacing is my milk tooth canine. However, my adult canine came in where my baby eye tooth was. So they would have to give me another canine. (Or yet more crazy orthodontical surgery and hijinx to move them about which I already endured when I was a child and my adult canine came down in the wrong place, pushing everything out of alignment. Which I really refuse to go through again.)
― Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
one of my teeth, evidently in solidarity with WCC, broke off at the gumline while I was chewing gum the other day. having lots of fun getting that situation sorted
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
Chewing gum? oW! I thought granary bread was fierce enough. Sticky situation. Hope you can get that sorted.
― Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
On a related note, when I was about 13 the dentist discovered that one of my canines was actually the milk tooth. They did an x-ray and found that the adult tooth had never descended and for some reason was lying sideways in my gum. After about six months of wearing braces I had surgery where they pulled out the milk tooth, sliced open my gum and essentially rammed the adult tooth into the hole. They said the tooth was actually dead, but was kind of fused to the bone and should last for 5-10 years. It looked normal at first, but gradually got higher and higher compared to all the teeth around it. After 24 years it was still there but my dentist said it needed removing and I had to go to hospital in April to get this done. I now just have a gap where the tooth was. The solution they recommended would cost about £3,000, but I think I'll just do nothing and keep the gap - I put up with a weird looking tooth for so long, I think I can cope with the space.
― I've been to Suffolk (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
Ha! I always thought that having a persistent milk tooth was some weird rare thing, but here are 3 people on the thread with adult milk teeth.
― Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
i used to have FOUR eye teeth, the adult ones growing from high up the gum over the top of the milk teeth, giving me shark-style layers. then i had the overlapping ones removed. so i guess both of my eye teeth are milk teeth?
― (500) Days of Sodom (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
I did have five Wisdom teeth, which my dentist reckoned he'd never seen before.
I also had that 'long away from the dent, tooth shatt" thing, it was a Heston Services pie that did it.
I dunno, I remember being back at the dentists, having the fingers in't gob and all that, and thought to myself "Is this really so bad?" and decided no.
So, not phobic, not exactly regarding it as a pleasure, it now rates as 'more desirable than my yearly review'.
Oh, and more recently, I got a gold replacement for the shatttooth. Gril.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
If I could get a gold tooth out of this, I would die of happiness. But that would probably cost a bomb, right?
― Shepton Mullet (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
Last time I went to the dentist he gave me a filling with no anaesthetic at all! Apart from a few chair-gripping moments it wasn't too bad, the pain was only temporary. Probably for a bigger filling they'd make more effort, or then again maybe not what with budgets being slashed and all.
― don't slip in mud (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
We enrolled in a 'dental plan' just so we could get the kids NHS cover (!)
The tooth (actually a filling) was about £120 on top of the 'plan' price..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
still pretty cheap from everything i've heardi mean, dentists here (canada) usually charge over $200 for a cleaning (incl standard xrays) alone
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
i got my teeth cleaned last week after 2 years of not going to the dentist (no insurance, then just was being lazy abt making an appointment) and everything is good + my teeth are so clean and stain-free! my dentist gave me a deal and i promised to go to the dentist for a cleaning once a year, done and done.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
I went today! My dentists love my teeth.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
Tell me about it - it's been quite a relief. Finding NB&S's story particularly reassuring. When I was about the same age (13/14) the dentist said that I should have my remaining milk tooth out, because the tooth above it wasn't coming down. They said they'd attach a chain to it, and gradually pull it down.
I didn't want to have a little chain in my mouth, so I didn't go back to the dentist for 20 years.
Fortunately, when I went to the dentist, there was nothing wrong with my teeth and no more talk of mini chains being put in my mouth. I was bricking it beforehand - going up and down the street in a cold sweat. My milk tooth is still there of course, and from time to time it becomes a little loose, and start getting worried, but then it seems to firm up again. Staying away from granary bread.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
any other holders out out there who do not go to the dentist?
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
Yes I have not been in probably 10 years or more. I know I should go but I am afraid to, plus I don't have a dentist and am not sure how to find one. I'm nervous about finding one I will be comfortable with. I might just give in and go to my parents' dentist that I used to go to even though I never especially liked him. At least he has my file. I don't want to be lectured by him or his dental hygienist, who has lectured me before. I also had a bad experience with him while having my wisdom teeth removed.Last night I had a terrible dream that my teeth were cracking and in it I thought, Yes, I really should have gone back to the dentist sooner. I have always been afraid to go to the dentist (as well as the doctor). I did go regularly as a child and for some time after.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Ahhh, the dentist. I got my wisdoms removed and one of them messed up the side of my outermost tooth. The hygenist was poking it and it hurt real bad. I said "ouch" and she said "do you know why this is hurting you?", and I said "yeah because you're poking it!" then kicked her tray over and walked out of the office
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
did that happen in reality?
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 30 November 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
frogbs
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 30 November 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I last visited the dentist in 2001. I had my wisdoms removed and was scheduled to do some other work, but then I moved and never got around to following up with that.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 November 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
harsh dentist - they wouldnt let you move? at all?
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 30 November 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
Neither have I because I know when I get my super large inheritance (pool and pizza for everyone whee!!!) I am getting my teeth done along with the rest of my glamorous lifestyle!!
I know that day is coming.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Saturday, 1 December 2012 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
Every ten years I skip going for a couple years, a mistake that inevitably results in a deep cleaning thus a deep fucking with my bank account.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 December 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
Me too but I need new veneers put on my teeth and wanted them fixed anyway. It's just that the last time I went to the dentist I got scare stories. I mean, I take care of my teeth but I don't need the abuse.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Saturday, 1 December 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
Dentists and their hygienists tend to take themselves rather seriously.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 December 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
Like, I had a chipped tooth that I got in high school, because healthy people are physically active and do gymnastics and lift weights.
And he saw my chipped tooth and implied that I was "abused" and you know how condescending that can be.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Saturday, 1 December 2012 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
I broke a molar in Feb and the filling disintegrated two months later; I'm going to have a "three-quarters cap" fitted because it sounds like another filling would just break again. So I have two appointments booked, one to measure it and one to fit it, and I thought "measuring, that should be NBD, right?" but I've just looked it up and actually measuring sounds more horrible than fitting as apparently they drill your tooth down to a stub and then give you a temporary cap for the next fortnight which probably won't even fit right.
It needs done I guess, but the measuring appt is on Friday afternoon, the dentist is shut all weekend so no emergency adjustments, and I have a birthday day out booked on the Monday and I do not want anything to ruin or force me to cancel that :(
Anyone have a cap or a crown fitted before? Am I worrying about nothing or should I postpone?
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 21 April 2014 13:02 (ten years ago) link
(PS as per thread title I went ten-ish years without visiting a dentist and my first dental visit after that went fine, but now my teeth seem a bit fucked and I'm scared they'll all fall out before I'm 40, so - hey kids! see your dentist! I have a ridiculously sweet tooth and love sugary drinks tho so all my own fault I guess)
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 21 April 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
^^^ I didn't go to a dentist between the ages of 18 and 28 and my teeth are fucked up as well - although in a different way. Not realising you have impacted wisdom teeth and the damage they do to the teeth in front = huge fillings and huge bills.
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Monday, 21 April 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
I had to have that done last year aps. If the tooth has been root-treated, as sounds likely, then it's easy - drilling down can't hurt because there's no feeling there. I don't think I even had anaesthetic.
The temporary cap isn't a cap, it's a sort of thin cement that smoothes over the stump and gradually disintegrates over the fortnight until the cap has been made. When it comes to fitting, I can't remember how the cement came off but the cap just gets glued over the stump. Again, I don't think any anaesthetic.
The finished job is indistinguishable from an actual tooth. It feels a little bit weaker, and slightly weird if I'm knackered (presume this reflects something to do with sinuses rather than anything else), but otherwise does the job perfectly well.
In short, it's remarkably painless and you should go ahead imo.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 21 April 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
xp should be ok, i have a crown on a molar where i had had a root canal; it was prob ~6 yrs ago but i dont recall the drilling down & fitting being bad really
yea what IK said. my crown has actually come un-cemented twice in the 6 yrs but that is painless too and they jam it back in for free
― johnny crunch, Monday, 21 April 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
My total bill from my 4+ years of no dentist came to $610, w/scaling plus two fillings.― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:22 PM (5 years ago) [IP: 144.171.206.112: Washington, United States] Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:22 PM (5 years ago) [IP: 144.171.206.112: Washington, United States] Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Didn't learn my lesson as I waited through the whole first Obama administration to go again. Hundreds of dollars of work in the last year. No surprise.
― how's life, Monday, 21 April 2014 13:18 (ten years ago) link
Part of my weird problem was that whenever the receptionists would ask me when to schedule my next appointment for, I wouldn't do it because I didn't know where I would be or what I'd be doing in 6 months. It didn't occur to me that I could reschedule closer to the date of the appointment if that date didn't work for me!
― how's life, Monday, 21 April 2014 13:23 (ten years ago) link
Hmm, I haven't had a root canal... yet. But thanks for the reassurance on the cap itself.
I am also not learning my lesson as I forgot to buy anything to eat for lunch and am going to eat Easter eggs instead of an actual meal.
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 21 April 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
By "yet" I mean I haven't had a root canal, though one of the links I looked at said they might x-ray you before measuring and give you a root canal there and then if there's decay underneath. Which, urgh.
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 21 April 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
FFS my temporary cement cap came off the day after surgery on a bank holiday weekend. It doesn't hurt; let's hope it can stay that way until Tuesday at least.
Sigh.
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 3 May 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
i just got one, on a front tooth, following a small chip in the exterior. i made the mistake of looking over in the mirror, after they finished "preparing" my real tooth for the cap. i felt like i was trapped in a horror movie. now the cap looks fine. the dentist said that the temporary cement they used might just stay permanently, since there's very little "play" in the tooth. i hope that's right. it doesn't hurt when the cap is off, but it's ultra-sensitive and feels lousy, to say nothing of how it looks.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 3 May 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
The temporary cap isn't a cap, it's a sort of thin cement that smoothes over the stump and gradually disintegratesFFS my temporary cement cap came off the day after surgery on a bank holiday weekend
OK, how is anyone meant to eat with this stuff in? The dentist said "don't eat anything too hard" but I lost 80% of it on some mashed potato on Saturday night and the remaining 20% on a cheese sandwich just now, despite trying not to chew on that side. Going back to the dentist tonight to see what he says but I'm not getting the real cap until next Friday and the prospect of trying to feed myself for 9 days without dislodging whatever replacement I get is currently a bit daunting
or maybe he'll say "since it doesn't hurt very much it's fine and you've wasted my time"; most of the back enamel of my tooth is missing but I'm not really clear whether the stuff I can feel with my tongue is tooth-core (everyone's favourite genre) or the dentist's cement.
so many appointments for one tooth! and I am 99% convinced several others are fucked too, so I look forward to repeating the cycle again and again
hope yours is going OK, Daniel!
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link
it's going okay, but i have the same issue you do. i won't put a lot of pressure on the cap, for fear of it falling out (which my dentist warned me could happen, especially with the temporary cement saying in as a hoped-for permanent solution). so that makes eating certain foods, like sandwiches, a real challenge.
how's it going for you, a few hours since this post? i would hate it to have to deal with an exposed "nub" for a day, but maybe it's easier with a back-tooth.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
ahem, he put some more putty on but told me I was basically worrying about nothing (though he put it much more nicely than that) because although the outer wall and lid had come off there is apparently a pretty sound core of filling material still there. I'm only having a 3/4 cap, only half the back and one side are missing, so I guess I underestimated what was left behind the half-back
so, now I am suitably ashamed for panicking. I am not really dealing well with the whole tooth breakage, ever-rotting body, reminder of mortality thing tbh, more than any actual physical issues
I hope your fears are similarly unjustified... and that I can make it until next Friday without further incident, psychological or actual. When's your real cap to be fitted?
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
don't be ashamed, really. i was so horrified and sad about the cap that i can barely describe it, and for the same reasons you mentioned.
my real cap is in. the cement they initially used was supposed to be temporary, in case the "funny feeling" i had in the tooth meant i needed a root canal ("no reason to drill through a new, permanently-cemented cap, if that's the case," is the way my dentist described it). when i went back, she said there was "no play" in the cap or tooth, so she said let's just leave it as-is, and that the temporary cement sometimes works forever. the "funny feeling" has gone away, but i'm constantly aware i've got a cap where my front tooth used to be.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Time for more fillings :( though at least the broken-and-capped tooth mentioned above seems to be doing fine (famous last words, etc).
Anyone have any thoughts on the silver mercury amalgam vs white composite fillings? The thought of mercury in my mouth is a little unnerving (they're right at the back so how it looks doesn't really matter) but it'll be nearly £200 cheaper and I'm probably worrying about nothing. Right? Right??
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
I wish I had sprung for the white ones. Every once in a while I open my mouth in the mirror and am horrified. I mean it seems silly to pay that much for such a tiny vanity, but if someone told me now "you can pay like $2 a month to not ever have that terrible "oh god my whole mouth is a PIT OF ROTTEN DECAY oh wait" feeling I'd take it.
I have not, however, died, nor gone mad.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
Latest bit of fall out from my years of dental inattention was a root canal two weeks ago. Went back in yesterday to have av temporary crown put on. I didn't Google it beforehand so I didn't realize that in order to fit the crown over your damaged tooth, they have to file the tooth down to a nub. So that's a bummer.
― put your money where the maracas are (how's life), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 11:31 (nine years ago) link
In the continuing saga of "spacecadet starts seeing dentists again after many years", just saw a hygienist for the first time since, oh, 1997ish. Way more intense than I remembered, surprised various teeth didn't pop out or snap. Whole mouth feels weird now.
I was of course told to floss more often (I hate flossing, I am really manually un-dextrous and malcoordinated and find the whole thing awkward and anxiety-inducing); also, upsold on an electric toothbrush, though I had been meaning to buy one anyway.
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 22 May 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link
not been in 8 years :(
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Friday, 22 May 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
looking forward to all of mine falling out so i can just do it all by post
― yeovil knievel (NickB), Friday, 22 May 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
yes, looking forward to dental 3d printing reaching the point where I can have a new set every few years
think sharks have the right idea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_tooth
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 22 May 2015 13:11 (eight years ago) link
I'm so squeamish about bodies, teeth & especially gums that I didn't go for twelve years, and when I did I had to have nine fillings and three pure-black wisdom teeth chopped out of my gob. It was a good job I was on the dole at the time - it all came free and I got some sedation for the squeams thrown in.That was three years ago, though, and recently, while eating a fucking ciabatta that I didn't even want, one of those big fillings came out, or a quarter of a tooth did -- I swallowed it and I'm no expert anyway -- and I have to begin again I reckon, this time paying, I suppose.― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, November 26, 2007 11:34 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, November 26, 2007 11:34 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haha so I actually went a couple of times in 2008 after the ciabatta business, and the dentist had a root canal thing going on in that tooth but she ran out of time, so she temporarily filled it and I was supposed to go back the next week. But I was broke and didn't turn up, and literally every day since then I have thought "Shit, I should really go see a dentist some time," but obviously I never did, even when that whole area got super-painful and super-swollen for a few days in 2010.
Then last weekend I had a stupid accident in someone's bathroom and totally smashed up my front teeth. Holy fuck, it is a disaster. Had no choice but to go to the dentist twice this week already, and will be going many, many times in the months to come. Torture upon torture! It is like the worst possible thing that could happen has happened. In a weird way, though, it is kind of good because while I fear for my looks at least I'm finally going to get all the other stuff done.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 22 May 2015 13:23 (eight years ago) link
oof! fingers crossed for you EK
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 22 May 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Thanks! At least now I am sort of in a position where I could possibly get my hands on whatever money is needed to sort it all out, whereas in 2007 the £300 or so I needed to fix things up was beyond me. Seems so sad now.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 22 May 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
I went through this last year and had a tooth pulled and various fillings - one of which is so big that the dentist reckons additional root canal surgery will eventually be required, and he said that with some relish. I find it hard to keep it civil with him because he is such a slimy tosser. He isn't like one of the mouth butchers that I encountered in the 70's/80's that scared me off for decades, but there is definitely something John Christie+ about him and he can barely disguise the contempt he has for NHS scum who don't pay for the extra services.
― xelab, Friday, 22 May 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
went for quarterly checkup a few days ago and found the surgery was now managed by some rapacious twee fucks who wanted me to fill in a form where I rated my smile from one to 10. was then informed that the price was going up 50% for the same service. good times
― pull blart, maul cops (DJ Mencap), Friday, 22 May 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
went to one last year for the first time in about ten years. everything in good order, besides a tooth I had pulled which was rotting (it was too far back in my mouth to brush behind). dentist v impressed with my gums, said I had "good strong teeth". did not get a sticker. :( was nhs dentist so ended up seeing a hygienist as well. 10/10 would recommend, had been worried about going for ages.
― gyac, Friday, 22 May 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
Gotta get three cavities filled tomorrow, two between the teeth (never had that before!) - kinda freaked by it since my last 6-7 appointments were cavity-free, guess I'm just not flossing enough. They're in two different spots so I'm getting two shots...barf
I don't know why I'm nervous for this. The needle sucks - sticking it in isn't bad, to me it feels like they really jam it in there and it gets really painful after a few seconds. I think it's just the general discomfort of it all, plus all the horror stories I've heard over the years. First time I got novocaine it hit my nose and I had this nose itch that I couldn't scratch and that was hell. For some reason I'm just really freaked out even though there's no reason for it, I know it's most likely all gonna be alright, just the thought of needles and drilling and novocaine really freaks me out, how do you put your mind at ease?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
i was so anxious about visiting a dentist since i hadn't been in like 5-6 years but i convinced myself to go by telling myself that it would only get worse if i didn't get it looked at. i don't know if that'll help you. i ended up lucking out in that no work needed to be done.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
i broke a tooth recently and was slowly getting around to visiting the dentist about it, but the other day it started giving me excruciating pain. went this morning, and they said, ok it's only a wisdom tooth come back this afternoon and we'll remove it. so that's in a couple of hours. this is going to be fun/ok/not painful isn't it?
― Fizzles, Monday, 23 May 2016 11:15 (seven years ago) link
if nothing else that's good service 8)
(i've had wisdom teeth out before with no problems that a day's worth of paracetamol didn't cure)
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2016 11:21 (seven years ago) link
koogs i love you. i feel soothed and reassured already. dentist assured me the post-op pain wd be "no worse than a cut hand". an evaluation which had me frowning slightly, but was mainly heartening.
and yes, although i have a regular dentist, they couldn't see me until next week. fortunately i live p much next to a first class dental unit. touch wood of course. a senior student will be conducting the operation under supervision. if I don't wake up from the local anaesthetic tell my books i love them.
― Fizzles, Monday, 23 May 2016 11:25 (seven years ago) link
also, my op appt is at 2:15 so it's not entirely improbable that the op itself will be at 2:30.
― Fizzles, Monday, 23 May 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link
Good luck Fizzles! I guess you're out now so I hope it went OK.
I have some dental woes myself, been putting it off for ages as they're somewhat hard to explain and I know I'm a terrible hypochondriac but finally booked an appointment for Wednesday morning. Immediately a completely different tooth started to hurt too...
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 23 May 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
cheers, space cadet. he was a student and a little nervous, so there was a bit of his supervisor saying no you need to go round this side no no you need to twist it this way *FIRMER* which made my fists clench somewhat but it done now. also, beads of sweat on his forehead.
― Fizzles, Monday, 23 May 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
if I don't wake up from the local anaesthetic tell my books i love them.
― Fizzles, Monday, May 23, 2016 7:25 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol this is a little too real/relatable. glad a book reunion is imminent
― johnny crunch, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
If you fall asleep from a local anaesthetic, they've done it wrong.
― ailsa, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
well yes, tho when he was testing the effect to see whether i could feel anything i was "yep felt that, more give me more".
― Fizzles, Monday, 23 May 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
Never been to the dentist before - my parents didn't have the money for it as a kid, I guess, never had insurance as an adult but also never a toothache.
Broke a molar Christmas Eve w/ no pain; root canal one week before my first-ever dental insurance kicks in (though it doesn't look like it would have been a miracle in terms of cost anyway). Guess no spring vacation for me.
Fuck 2016.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 26 December 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
I have an acquaintance who moved into town last year and while seeming like the really fastidious and responsible type, shortly after we gave him the name of our very good local dentist, I was helping him home from the oral surgeon with a bag of painkillers and a list of irrigation instructions. DON'T NOT GO TO THE DENTIST
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 26 December 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
also sorry milo that sucks
I can't believe the dentist gave me 30 vicodin for this. A dull ache is not opiate worthy to me.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
but i convinced myself to go by telling myself that it would only get worse if i didn't get it looked at.
This is so true. The last time I went to the dentist was to have my wisdoms removed in 2001. 15 years later, my mouth looks like Berlin after WWII, and that's with consistent brushing and not-consistent-enough flossing.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
Once my insurance kicks in, I'm going to get the full work-up and find out what's about to go bad. I actually planned to do that before (hence dental insurance) because my dad's teeth are absolutely horrible (aesthetically and for eating and probably heavily effecting his other health problems) but lol2016.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
I've actually begun looking at implants in passing. Another tooth broke about a month ago, though, and it's been aching off and on for the last few days (nothing so severe a couple of Aleve won't solve), so it's really just a matter of psyching myself up for a huge procedure (or several procedures) at this point. I think my co-pay is really manageable.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 04:32 (seven years ago) link
I've had dental pain where I would've killed for vicodin (dentists in Ireland never prescribe anything good). I got an infection in a root canal a few years ago while on holiday and was taking eight nurofen a night just to get a few hours sleep. Fixing the thing was three visits in total, over an hour in the chair each time, massive pain during and after the procedures, no decent pain relief. I've been so observant about the dentist since then. I wear my bite guard every night, I use those interdental brushes after every meal, and I get my teeth checked every six months. I never want to have that kind of pain again.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 11:57 (seven years ago) link
I think I got off lucky - I fell asleep during the root canal, the worst part was half my face not working for several hours due to the anesthetic. Also learned when eating dinner to be extremely mindful of which side I chew on.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 11:59 (seven years ago) link
I'm so squeamish about bodies, teeth & especially gums that I didn't go for twelve years, and when I did I had to have nine fillings and three pure-black wisdom teeth chopped out of my gob. It was a good job I was on the dole at the time - it all came free and I got some sedation for the squeams thrown in.That was three years ago, though, and recently, while eating a fucking ciabatta that I didn't even want, one of those big fillings came out, or a quarter of a tooth did -- I swallowed it and I'm no expert anyway -- and I have to begin again I reckon, this time paying, I suppose.― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, November 26, 2007 11:34 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkHaha so I actually went a couple of times in 2008 after the ciabatta business, and the dentist had a root canal thing going on in that tooth but she ran out of time, so she temporarily filled it and I was supposed to go back the next week. But I was broke and didn't turn up, and literally every day since then I have thought "Shit, I should really go see a dentist some time," but obviously I never did, even when that whole area got super-painful and super-swollen for a few days in 2010.Then last weekend I had a stupid accident in someone's bathroom and totally smashed up my front teeth. Holy fuck, it is a disaster. Had no choice but to go to the dentist twice this week already, and will be going many, many times in the months to come. Torture upon torture! It is like the worst possible thing that could happen has happened. In a weird way, though, it is kind of good because while I fear for my looks at least I'm finally going to get all the other stuff done.― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, May 22, 2015 1:23 PM (one year ago) Bookmark
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, May 22, 2015 1:23 PM (one year ago) Bookmark
I have been to the dentist many, many times since that last post, and honestly it is mostly OK.
The teeth I smashed were fixed superficially though I will never bite into an apple again.
I was lucky, the dentist said, that I didn't lose many of my other neglected teeth: I had left it about as late as I could. In the end, one tooth – the one damaged by a ciabatta in 2007 – had to go.
Recently, I had my first six-month appointment after all that treatment – though I actually left it about nine months of course. And for the first time since I was a kid, I got the all-clear. Nothing needing doing. I very much intend to turn up on time to my next check-up, and the one after that.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 5 January 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
+ I remembered that I was allergic to the antibiotic they were just about to prescribe me+ It probably won't cost more than $1000- OWwww- One of the teeth that they are going to take out is a wisdom tooth, and that will probably hurt?
― sarahell, Friday, 20 January 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
Had a tooth out yesterday.
― Stevolende, Friday, 20 January 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
i need to get 3 wisdom teeth out soon lol
thankfully got decent "bennys" so it won't cost me too much
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Friday, 20 January 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
my dental insurance now isn't any better than it was pre-Obamacare, so I guess this is a fitting thing to happen to me today
― sarahell, Friday, 20 January 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
ugh sorry that suuucks :(
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 January 2017 19:54 (seven years ago) link
Got to go back in 2 weeks and see if the rest of my teeth are ok.Had rot under an old filling which dentist said I might be able to get root canal work on. But would be €400 roughly and might still only make tooth last couple of years.So had it out and kept it. Now got great gap.
― Stevolende, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
getting your wisdom teeth out is kinda fun actually
coming down from the cool drugs they give you sucks
also hope you like spaghetti o's, cuz you'll be terrified to eat anything else
I like spaghetti o's so it was no problem for me
― frogbs, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
I broke another tooth (right next to my other broken tooth) y/day, the dentist was obv shut on Sunday, and now they're not answering their phone or email. c'monnnnn
It doesn't actually hurt so it's probably not actually urgent (yet?) but I would really like not to spend too many more days being scared to eat anything and using all the mouthwash and then wondering if mouthwash is also bad for whatever is now open to my tongue and bacteria
I've also developed a weird compulsive tooth-sucking/lip-chewing habit which I've been failing to train myself out of so I guess I'd better confess that to the dentist even though I know they're just going to say "well, that's a weird and stupid thing to do, don't do that then"
(if anyone has any tips on correcting bad mouth habits please let me know but I am aware that it is so far into the category of weird and stupid that probably nobody else has ever a) done it b) been unable to stop doing it)
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 23 January 2017 11:31 (seven years ago) link
My dentist is always on at me to stop clenching my teeth (I have a bite guard for that now, which is honestly the greatest thing I've ever spent money on) and biting my lips and the insides of my cheeks. Obviously these things are involuntary, so it's hard to stop, but I have started chewing on toothpicks, which does actually help a bit.
― trishyb, Monday, 23 January 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
Ooh. Do you have a proper fitted bite guard or did you get a home-mouldable one? I tried one of the mouldable ones but couldn't really get it to fit. Toothpicks could be good as long as I don't manage to choke on one while stabbing the back of my throat - will try it out, thanks.
I've tried gum and it helps for a short while but eventually I notice I've moved the gum aside and gone back to chewing. Plus for some reason it really annoys me watching/hearing my coworker chew gum all day so I'd rather not do the same. Also weird, I know.
I got my tooth filled and the dentist told me to see the orthodontist in case teeth breaking in weird places + jaw grinding = both caused by alignment issues, as I do have an overbite and v crooked/crowded teeth - so that's next on my list of dental appointments in my new era of actually going to the dentist. Suspect tooth breakage is just because I eat way too much sugar and didn't see a dentist for 10 years but hey.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
Ooh. Do you have a proper fitted bite guard or did you get a home-mouldable one?
I have a proper one, and I'm going to have to get a second one, because my dentist now reckons I should wear it while driving as well as while sleeping. I don't mind, though. Having it properly made was expensive, but it fits really well, so it's very comfortable. Bloody thing is nearly worn down already, though, and I've only had it two years.
All my back teeth are split. They've all got heavy filling from my teenage years, and I'm about to get a second crown put in back there. The tooth I'm just about to get crowned was so badly split that we didn't even know if the root canal would work, and I was going to have it removed, but then all the force of my bite would just come down on the next tooth along, so then I'd just have to get that one root canaled & crowned instead. Ugh. Stupid jaws.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
My sympathy, that sounds like no fun.
So far my 4 back lower teeth are p screwed. TBH I just hope I can keep the chaos at the back where nobody can see it.
I saw the orthodontist and I might get a splint which AFAIK is like a mouthguard which does the double duty of being shaped to make my nasty teeth line up where they're supposed to instead of just at the back. That's phase 1 of a horribly expensive 4-stage, 4-year plan which I'm really not sure about, but I might do the splint anyway and hope it gets me out of bad habits...
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
read this thread at lunchtime, thought "i should really do something about that." Just shattered a molar on a peppercorn :(
― sktsh, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
sorry to hear & good luck sktsh!
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 2 February 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Just had a tooth drilled out and refilled, but at least it didn't have to come out like the one above it. Got another being done tomorrow.Lovely.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 2 February 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
i would totally get veneers if i could afford it.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
xps thanks!
I'm kinda grateful for the broken tooth now, because it turned out to be pretty surface level stuff that waseasily fixed, but I had a bunch of cavities that needed urgent work. Had my first bit of treatment yesterday and apart from a bit of a sore jaw and huge guilt at having let this happen (my old man was a dentist and must be rolling in his grave) I'm ok.
700 pounds though!! :(
― sktsh, Thursday, 2 March 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
the two most expensive things i own are both dental 8)
― koogs, Thursday, 2 March 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/
I switched dentists about four years ago and lo and behold I haven't had to have a filling since. Last guy always wanted to drill out something or replace a filling, which sucks because I have the same dentalphobia that everyone else does. My habits haven't really changed much so I'm starting to suspect the other guy was maybe doing unnecessary work on me. Imagine having to get a root canal you don't actually need.
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 April 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
I've never had a cavity, had some orthodontics in '84-'86, wisdom teeth removed + some cosmetic dentistry in '99, and haven't seen a dentist since. I'll continue avoiding all foods with added sugars, brushing w/mouthwash every day I have to leave the house, flossing when I'm really bored, and avoiding the dentist till I actually have an issue.
I would not be surprised if preventative dentistry is much like medicine, where there's no benefit for patients with annual checkups (when assymptomatic), and remarkably little for screening. I certainly have seen no benefit and quite a bit of potential harm for the full set of head x-rays the last one needed annually.
― Insert bad pun (Sanpaku), Thursday, 18 April 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
why does this article contain a picture of space ghost
frogbs i'm sorry about you getting an unnecessary root canal, that totally sucks
mostly i just need regular deep cleaning because my gums are shit
i don't think that was a good article, there's some good stuff in there making the argument that dentistry needs to adopt more rigorous self-regulation and adoption of evidence-based standards but then it all gets thrown to shit by talking about one super-egregious fraud and then titling the article "is dentistry a science?"
but i guess the general public doesn't particularly want to read about the need for stronger self-regulation and perpetuation of evidence-based standards in the dental profession, i admit it does come off as a little dry
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Friday, 19 April 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
had a crown (the same one) come loose twice in like a month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jswebxVzEYA
― johnny crunch, Friday, 15 January 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
I was talking to my mum who was giving me an update on my brother who lives in Dubai. She says he has finally found a really good dentist, who has taken every single last tooth out of his head.
― calzino, Friday, 15 January 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
"i have found a good veterinarian who has put down all my cats"
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
my grandma had all her teeth taken out as a 30th birthday present.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 15 January 2021 23:23 (three years ago) link