let's talk about teeth

last time i just had to have the one filling.

apparently i have "dwarf" wisdom teeth. haha :( post rude responses here.

This maniacal attention to my dental hygiene has been built up over 1) getting four fillings and the pain involved and my ensuing determination never to be caught at the business end of a drill again; and 2) having braces and the gross amount of junk that gets caught in them had me paranoid about my teeth rotting out from stuck food.

So gimme the rhythm and it'll be off with they clothes
Then bend over to the front and touch your toes!

> the extraction of the wisdom teeth wasn't that bad

i've had two done and both times i went back to work the same afternoon.

simon armitage was on radcliffe last night (here: about 20 minutes in) and read out a 'poem' that was just a list of these things.

full poem is here http://www.dentalgain.org/ (but it sounds better when he reads it).

One line thats always stuck: "I miss your teeth". Something so engagingly clumsy about it. I like teeth.

Two wisdom teeth have to come out, because they are rotten. Also I need eleven fillings. The dentist referred me to a place that does sedation. I will be conscious but unbothered, supposedly, and I will probably remember nothing afterwards. Has anyone else had this done? I feel as though the process will age me terribly.

I have to go to the dentist this week, I have a toothache. Gah, I hates it.

Mister Monkey just got his braces. Poor lamb is uncomfortable and feeling very self-conscious.

SO, this tooth was never pointed out to me as a tooth I should worry about.
it just sucks now. it's in the front of the lower jaw. It's really a useless tooth.There are plenty of other tooths crowding it that want to do it's little job.( I am always being reccomended for braces).
I think I want it pulled.

"Blood flooding mouth = do not want. "
I no want the flooding blood mouth!

it's not a glamorous tooth - I would fight for it if it was a visible tooth, or a mandible in the back quadarants.
I'm fine with whatever the dentist says. He/She will be horrified by my teeth, and will want to fix them.

There is no fixing to be done without braces.
I don't want to have braces again!
But that'ts what everyone tells me i have to do! Bottom and top!
AND the little tooth that has deciced to begin dying will be a significant part, i suppose.
I don't want braces at my age!
They won't pull the tooth, and they won't pull my teeth.
I will weigh in again after i have seen my dentist....

Just go to a different dentist and say you're having pain. If the filling isn't settled properly, you will be soon, anyway.

oh, Ailsa! i too am a poster child for funny teeth - fortunately, if i am grinning, my teeth look normal! i just can't close my mouth over them, so I look like bucky the beaver if I'm NOT smiling.
And I'm not exactly a cheerleader for the world, so...I look like a petulant buck toothed animal in many pictures.
The palette widener was the worst! It's a metal bar that is inserted, attached to two of the back teeth, that is similar to a bit you might put into a horses mouth. Except it doesn't move, and you're not a horse. And it gets tightened every week, so that the spring in the middle slowly gets released and, literally, widens your palette.
I don't think they're in vogue in orthodontic circles anymore.

However, I wouldn't mind having my overbite corrected, if it wasn't too painful and ugly. I have some well founded fears!

He has to wear the brace for a year and a half. It is not causing him any pain, except that it kind of sticks into his cheeks, but he only got it on Monday and the orthodontist expects it to settle down after a couple of weeks. Our housemates did not notice he had it until this morning, and even if you noticed it, you certainly wouldn't recoil from it. It is a very modern brace.

Or when you're younger. I had braces for 18(?) months in my mid teens and as soon as they came off, my lower teeth practically jumped back into their misalignment.

I do need two fillings and a crown. One of my molars has a stress fracture. And I have a papilloma (a wart, basically) on my soft palate! I never noticed it before! So I wonder if I should get some dental insurance on my policy and wait to have the crown done after the waiting period kicks in. I'm not sure it would be any cheaper in the long run than just shelling out for the crown.

me too alisa. I was told it's b/c I have very thin enamel. :(

hard like armour, are you sure they weren't molesting you?! I didn't have to wear a hospital gown at all when I had my wisdoms pulled.

THIS HAPPENED TO ME, TOO. The funny part is that I wasn't even having hysterics, I actually remember thinking that if I just kept my head moving he could never get the needle in, so I was turning it back and forth and back and forth. I don't think we ever went back.

Ms Misery, I had to wear a gown when my wisdom teeth came out, because it was under general anasthetic at a hospital, and that was the rule. They wanted to take my nose piercing out, so I lied and told them it didn't come out, and they just stuck some tape over it.

I have to have a tooth out, possibly as soon as tomorrow. It's a biggie--second molar in the back. Big ole scary roots on the x-ray. It was root-canaled ages ago but I guess something has gone amiss now and there is a crack and gum swelling and god only knows what else.

I haven't had a tooth out since I had a baby tooth or two pulled in elementary school. Oh duh I had three wisdom teeth out, but that seemed different.

Anyone had a molar out lately? Did you get sedation or just novocaine or ??? I may have to get an IMPLANT ugh fake toof.

I actually had a teeth dream last night for the first time in several years. I was convinced that I was over them once I realized that if I lost a tooth I could just get a false one. But no: in last night's dream, there were parts of my teeth that were rotting, and if I wiggled them they would come loose. Creepy.

Teeth are the weirdest goddamn part of the body, I swear. I mean they are just TOTALLY BIZARRE.

there's something stuck in my teeth but I think it's wedged too tightly for me to slide some dental floss past it, and it's also too tight to be dislodged by a toothpick, and I don't have one of those tiny metal hooks either

hmm, it is a conundrum

Teeth are the weirdest goddamn part of the body, I swear. I mean they are just TOTALLY BIZARRE.

― quincie, Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:44 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

I was trying to see if I could identify whatever it was in the mirror and as I was focusing solely on my teeth I had the exact same thought. they are pretty strange

i became transfixed by a girl i was talking to's teeth today, they were very, very gleaming white and capped-looking but yet quite crooked, it seemed anomalous. we were standing quite close and laughing a lot so i got a very clear view of them. i think she might have been showing them off. overall i decided they were a good set of choppers, if they'd been perfectly straight that would have been too much.

she was nice, i'm not criticising her at all, this is just a report.

never really had a problem with my teeth, and my dentist would always polish them quickly for no extra charge when I visited. However I think they might be (no pun intended) clamping down on free clean-ups as the last time i visited they said i'd need to book an appointment with a hygienist, which costs about £50. I haven't done this yet, but it's true - since upping my intake of coffee/tea at work, my teeth are noticeably less white than they used to be. I've been upping the ante when it comes to brushing/flossing/mouthwash and switched to an electric brush too.

Short of shelling out for the hygienist, who I'm sure will fix things up nicely for a short while, is there anything else people have found works for better-looking teeth in the long term? Do whitening toothpastes like Blanx and Janina and/or whitening kits work or are they snake oil?

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[Valdosta, Georgia]

Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth-

Construction workers: [tearing down wall] teeth, TEETH

Wall: [collapsing and spilling thousands of teeth onto the ground] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!https://t.co/kqxl6PNK5o

— Eoin Hauntins 🏚️👻 (@EoinHiggins_) October 26, 2018

this is apparently the third time this has happened https://t.co/ceycUN1Jbp

— Charles, gHost of Mic Dicta (RIP) (@Ugarles) October 31, 2018

cavity walls

if these cavity walls could speak

‘cavity walls’ was the b-side to sheena easton’s ‘sugar walls’ iirc

more evidence my nightmares are spilling into reality: wall full of teeth

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