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Teeph (grossout thread)
joshofalltrades
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I just went to the dentist for the second time in my life. The first time was to get my wisdom teeth out since they were cutting the sides of my mouth; I didn't get them cleaned or anything prior to or after the operation. That was almost 13 years ago.
Today I went in because I was fiddling around with what felt like something lodged between my bottom two front teeth and what appeared to be a fucking piece of my tooth chipped off. So I think, well, damn, not having dental insurance my whole life and assuming I could get by brushing twice a day and flossing every other day would be good enough is catching up to me. I set up the appointment and I was expecting them to tell me my mouth looked like this:
Turns out the stuff that chipped off was just calcified tartar. And I have only one small cavity that they can fill with no anesthetic required. So I'm going back for a full cleaning and cavity filling soon. Apparently my teeth are pretty great except for the calculus, which they can fix easily!
Let's talk about dentists and other gross things.
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Super happy that I don't need a total overhaul or dentures or shit
Apparently slowly enjoying a soda over the course of an hour is horrible for your teeth. My dentist suggests I learn to chug.
Dude always but always found cavities.
Pretty sure he was a fucking sadist as well. He'd drill out my entire fucking tooth, and then sit there taping the nerve ending. Even with my mouth all numbed to hell, I felt like I was going to die.
*tap* OH GOD FUCKING HELL. Then he'd wait a minute. *tap* FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU. waaaaaait for it, *tap* Bllllllllllerrrrrrgh.
Motherfucker was always talking about how his kids shit their pants too. Didn't really fucking need to have that information.
After we changed dentists, no more cavities!
I highly recommend sedation dentistry. Especially if your dentist looks like Jennifer Aniston.
They've started giving me nitrous when they do it.
And that was while brushing twice a day a mouthwashing regularly, because something happened to get lodged deeper than it should have
I poked at a swollen bit and boom
pus n blood errywhere
where all my teeth would fall out
they were not good dreams to have
I too thought that maybe this thread was about teefs
seems that it is not
also my top two front teeth are false because when I was about eleven I crashed my bike into a parked Fiat Punto and fucked them up
yeah, so flossing is totally awesome guys, it stops bone loss in your jaw.
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Some specialist burned the fucking thing off with a laser.
The Novocaine shot was fucking horrible. The dickhead jammed it in my cheek, and wiggled it around for like 5 minutes. My jaw hurt for two weeks afterwards.
My mom thought I was just bitching, but then she went to the same guy, and had the same experience.
It was cool though, 'cause as we were leaving I spit a huge stream of spit and blood all over the sidewalk outside. A warning to others.
My teeth aren't bothering me but I bet I've got some cavities.
Once I had an abcess so bad that the dentist wouldn't do anything until it drained
But I was in a lot of pain, so I fixed it with a fistful of painkillers and a pair of vice grips
Someday soon the teeth I got left are going away and I'm getting dentures
Looking into getting a couple sets made, like a normal around the house set, and a gilded and jeweled grill, and maybe some shark teeth
Maybe some gold and jeweled shark teeth
When I picked her up, the dentist came out and told me there was "a fountain of puss" when they pulled the tooth.
Thanks for that info doctor.
I've decided to just drink less rather than go to the dentist
not a single cavity or gum disease or anything
started being better about them lately though
so knowing my luck they're all about to fall off any day now
When I went to the dentist last summer to get two infected teeth pulled, they gave me an estimate of what all the work I need would cost. It was over $14,000.
Woo. Yay for the most tangible reminder of the worst years of my life.
(Okay, after my insurance was taken into account it was around $6,500 but that's still a fuckload.)
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I have the dream all the time where I can just pick up my tongue out of my mouth, and it would keep moving and wiggling on its own. For some reason, I'm always super gentle when doing it. Imagine trying to pick up a hairless, faceless, tailless, warm, wet, gerbil.
This goes great with your avatar
...this post has apparently been paid for by the American Dental Association. We want your teeths. All of the teeths.
More and more evidence is being published about the correlation between your mouth health and your overall health, so yes, you are right.
I do wonder though, how much crap does a dentist give you if your mouth is full of things needing to be fixed, but you only come in for a cleaning? Can you be all "Yeah, I know that tooth is all chipped to pieces, but all I can afford is this cleaning." I mean, I'm sure he'd clean, but would he INSIST on fixing things up in there, especially if you were coming in every year (or every six months) with the same problems that you still can't afford to fix?
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We're British, the odd are against us.
True
other than that my teeth are exceptionally good
and the front two ones being fake does help when it comes to eating ice cream!
Also, my dental insurance isn't the greatest but I do get one free cleaning every six months which is nice. And that reminds me I should schedule one soon.
I had a ludicrously oversized canine removed when I was little and it appears to have warped how the rest of my teeth came in
Damn teeth.
I know it could be a lot worse and I do try my best to be super hygienic but I try really hard not to be in a situation where someone can smell my breath or something, just in case
The other day a kid bluntly asked me, "What happened to your teeth?" I got to give him a tiny lecture on proper hygiene, and to feel ashamed.
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no cavities, a little gingivitis from time to time but i brush, floss + use mouthwash so
had an impacted wisdom tooth back in '10, that was the worst pain i've ever felt
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My orthodontist from that time can actually be quoted in saying "your mouth is a challenge." To that I would have liked to have said "fuck you buddy," or some variant, but I probably had a bunch of metal objects holding my maw open or a mouthful of spit at the time.
Oh also my orthodontist when I was a teenager was apparently terrible, so a couple of my front teeth are crooked and I'm afraid I may have to get braces again. In my mid-20s. Really not looking forward to that.
That would be pretty classy.
You might as well get several rows of them too.
Straws dude. I never drink soda without a straw if I can help it.
but since my 20's i've been taking good care, and I'm to the point now where when I go in for a cleaning they don't even bother telling my I should floss more!
mostly because I floss like a maniac, 24/7
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other