Best kind of tooth!

I like canines the best.

I chose human dentition bcz we have it. However, I am a big fan of the dentition of the armadillo:

http://courses.washington.edu/chordate/453photos/teeth_photos/armadillo_skull_ventral.jpg

c'mon its got to be the canine. they make me feel like i could survive as a vampire or a caveman woman.

I think the term you're looking for is "cave hermaphrodite."

canine for sure! I have one really cool vampire-esque canine...the other one seems to have chipped :(

According to a thing I read, the thing people miss most when brushing (as in they do not adequately brush this area) is the front of the bottom middle two incisors.

This seems improbable!

I could very easily see that being true! Which would be unfortunate, since that's exactly where most of the tooth-destroying stuff that goes into your mouth winds up.

It has made me very conscientious about brushing those teeth. (And all my others.)

i am 24 and i don't have wisdom teeth yet what does it mean

Yeah that works for me, you either start on the right or left, so I guess some could not brush the front...coz their arm is tired.

My wisdom teeth cost me $1200, grrr. In fact every year I spend $300-400 or so on dental work out of pocket for what my insurance doesn't cover (I have 80% coverage on dental, pfft)

Canines, canines, canines...

My teeth are like my most highly valued thing. Although they are gross and yellow. I have a big revulsion about toothpaste and foamy things and etc etc that means no whitening toothpaste or whitening gels/strips. Consequently, although my teeth are extremely healthy from thorough and regular flossing, brushing (electric toothbrush I love you) and fluoride mouthwash, they are wicked yellow. Nasty yellow.

My one bourgeois dream is porcelain veneers.

They are kind of crooked, too.

Does anyone else miss the original choppers of David Bowie?

Incisors, because mine come together very nicely and allow me to bite through the roast beef in a sandwich without having to gnaw at it sideways.

cant you get that blue light thing done?

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yup, clearly canines, if only for the joy of having a pair of barkin' dogs in your mouth.

The one thing I actually was able to MAKE myself change in my life was learning to floss. That happened overnight and has lasted about a decade. I'm inordinately proud about it.

And how about those teeth-falling-out dreams?

I want to make this thread more confusing.

fuck those are the worst. the relief you feel when you wake up A+++++++++++ (xp)

i brush my teeth too hard, dentist said, and i don't floss enough. i hate flossing. it hurts and my hands are to hueg to fit in.

<3ing u Adbott

Tooth-falling out dreams have never happened to me, surprisingly, esp given my complex and deep feelings regarding them.

my teeth grew in perfectly straight but that caused a big prob because they were so straight and tight it was hard to floss them

i think the teeth falling out dreams are actually about being a filthy liar.

I highly recommend Dentek floss picks. They are the only ones that can get between my teeth.

I always floss my teeth in movie theaters. Go alone, sit in the back, sneak in a beer, drink it, floss. Nice evening.

btw way my kid gave me a freakin hiccy right below my collarbone last night. she likes biting my tshirt and hanging on like a dog or something but she scored skin that time. now i look like a 13 y/0

i dropped (well, WE dropped) $37K on my teeth in nov 06 so i can floss fine now.

Growing in my wisdom teeth over the past four years has given me MAD BABY EMPATHY.

poor babbies. do you get fevers and sniffly nose from teeth growing too? I cant remember my wisdom teeth coming in.

I get migraines.

Many more than usual.

I advise strongly against using Dentek floss picks. They are the one floss pick that will never go between my teeth.

I never floss my teeth in movie theaters. I go with friends, sit in the front, buy from the concession, and watch the film. Good morning.

Pulling out my wisdom teeth a few years back gave me MAD ELDERLY DISDAIN.

I had spoons in Chigaco?

Yeah, canines are gonna walk this. I love them so much, I have three of them!

WHAT?!? photographic proof pls

I have a rotten molar that occassionally gives me terrible pain, and has for over a year (lolnomoneynoinsurance.)

So, not molars.

Ms. K8, how exactly does that work?

Also are you a skark?

wisdom teeth: yeah I still got 'em.

God, I'd have to take a photo of myself with my mouth open, and I don't think I want to do that. I'm so self conscious about my teeth I'd have to clean and floss them about three times before taking a picture of them.

I have three canines because I was born without one of my adult other side teeth. When that baby tooth on one side dropped, the canine came down in its place, and I've never lost the original baby canine.

That typo means I'm going to spend the rest of the day imagining a ska band made up entirely of sharks.

Or maybe just a shark-themed ska band

OK! Be prepared, this is gonna be like a horrorshow from the BIG BOOK OF BRITISH SMILES (American dentists really did do the best they could with my teeth, but all my babytooth loss occurred in Britain, and you know what our dentistry is like.)

MY THREE CANINES:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3018/2999905621_42b13b7af0_o.jpg

(I really should have photoshopped my teeth to look whiter, but oh well. I'm hoping you will all be freaked out enough by the extra caninity to not notice how yellow they are.)

WOW

Freaking rad!

Don't worry my teeth are like almost crayon traffic light baby duck cartoon sun yellow.

fyi rubisco wisdom teeth are just molars

is it loose? i guess not. it would have fallen out right? WOW. Im just completely amazed right now(xxp)

also who knows the numbering system for naming teeth because i do ;D

I know they are molars but they get their own category for being freak molars that Should Not Be.

I know the numbering system and general dentition formulas for animals/hominids.

Sunny, have you re-named yourself after a Yo Gabba Gabba song?

Oh my gosh I was subjected to SO MUCH Yo Gabba Gabba...this one time.

Yes! yesterday we watched that ep and this happened AFTER we watched it.

btw way my kid gave me a freakin hiccy right below my collarbone last night. she likes biting my tshirt and hanging on like a dog or something but she scored skin that time. now i look like a 13 y/0

― don't bite your friends (sunny successor), Monday, November 3, 2008 2:27 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Good job, Muno.

Sometimes I think they know damn well how much Muno looks like a sex toy, and like it that way.

i voted canine

btw i somehow read the final poll option as "wtf @ asian wisdom teeth" then looked around the image for asian wisdom teeth thinking "wtf @ asian wisdom teeth"

(P.S. was that the same episode where he lost his baby teeth, and we got that insane glimpse into the economy of Yo Gabba Gabba world when DJ Lance Rock turned into an old-timey shopkeeper and sold Muno a horse and cowboy hat?)

I had one tooth to the right of my front teeth that never had an adult tooth behind it, so when I was eighteen and had my wisdom teeth pulled, I also had that one yanked and they put in an implant. I was supposed to wear a "flipper", something that fit to the roof of my mouth with a fake tooth to space it, but i was too-cool-for-school and liked walking around with an Alfred E. Neuman gap for a few months. Anyways, I used to have straight teeth, but my front teeth reshifted during the flipper period and now they're permacrooked. The implant has lasted almost fifteen years with no problems though. I recommend em... but wear your flippers!

i know a guy who was born w/a full set of teeth

Btw: an implant means they drill a hole in your jaw where the tooth should be and put a titanium socket in there. They let that heal for like six months and then they open up the hole and SCREW A BIONIC TOOTH INTO YOUR SKULL, so that's kind of awesome.
On the negative, if I ever get my teeth knocked out, it could really fuck up my face and get super expensive. So don't hit me in the face.

I had a neighbor in middle school who had a bunch of teeth knocked out in some kind of bike accident, and was given one of those flipper/spacer things -- almost like a foldable palate-fitted retainer with fake teeth on it. Sometimes he would yawn too big and the whole thing would collapse off the roof of his mouth, so it would look to the casual observer like his entire mouth had crumbled to pieces in the space of a second.

("Crumbled" as in 1 of 4 teeth would randomly fall onto his tongue for a moment)

http://www.critix.co.uk/img/see-you-soon.jpg

(P.S. was that the same episode where he lost his baby teeth, and we got that insane glimpse into the economy of Yo Gabba Gabba world when DJ Lance Rock turned into an old-timey shopkeeper and sold Muno a horse and cowboy hat?)

― nabisco, Monday, November 3, 2008 5:10 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha no. i havent seen that one. it was the one where muno bit the pink one (foofa?) and then fucked up the green one's (roby?) block tower by throwing a ball through it. we only worked out yesterday that the guy who does the drawings is the guy from devo.

Sometimes I think they know damn well how much Muno looks like a sex toy, and like it that way.

― nabisco, Monday, November 3, 2008 5:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh god, youre right.

You know, there was a short period where I thought Foofa was a little too cutesy and cloying, but I've since realized that she has the best voice and is totally the best dancer.

Singing voice, I mean -- best speaking voice is between Brobee and Toodee.

im still trying to get past foofa's pear shape she does have some sweet arm moves though

Ha ha, no, it's lodged pretty firmly in there. It's not entirely attached at the top, though, and I have to be really careful not to get food caught in it. But it's not coming out.

I kinda wish it would come out, because I want to get a METAL TOOTH like an pirate when it does fall out.

But that would entail my going to a dentist, which I haven't done in decades coz I am scared of dentists. (Partly because they always used to open up my mouth and go "Holy shit, you have weird teeth!" and then talk about pulling them all out and moving them around - NO NO NO.)

I'm also missing an adult tooth (a molar for me) and still have the milk tooth. My incisors don't meet too well and so aren't much good for anything except making me feel bad about my crooked yellow Britisher fangs; my canines are kind of blunt, ruining all my Connor Smedley flesh-tearing fantasies. So, pre-molars for me, then.

My toothbrushing always starts on the bottom right and the other bits always get much less because I'm bored by then. I felt bad about it until I found out that part's in the worst condition anyway. Time to worry about my brushing technique...

My incisors don't meet AT ALL and I had several thousand dollars worth of expensive American dentistry to even get them anywhere close (they're a lot better than they used to be!)

I think it actually might be a fairly common Britisher mutation to be born with missing adult teeth.

I spent extra time this morning brushing behind my bottom front teeth. It's bloody hard to reach them properly, actually.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Canines 14
wtf @ wisdom teeth 7

Settled, then. Fangs rule. Wisdom lags.