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My teeth are, naturally, very straight. The one piece of bad genetics I got mouthwise was that it's just too small in the back, hence why my wisdom teeth had to be eliminated. So I avoided braces and all of that, but paid later with my lower wisdom teeth causing infections and eventually trying to burrow underneath the molars in front of them.
Aaaand the days go by . . .
Raijin fooling around.
if i'm gonna play any other game besides poker it'll probably be craps
cause blackjack and pai-gow take my money for some reason
but i have been pretty lucky on slots and video poker in the past. trick is max bet all the time, whatever you put in, don't lose more than half without switching to another machine, more often than not (like, for real. i only play on this shit for $1 drinks and to kill time) i'll end up a decent amount. sometimes i've hit big. it's fucking thrilling to hit $100 on a penny machine.
better than going to the dentist at least. !!! i wonder if i could open a dentist office in vegas with a slot machine or video poker in the lobby?
And I love pain, so there is that too...
Haven't been in a few years at least.
I am a bad person
i don't do it near as much as i should
e: Also, Ativan is crazy. I had to take one tablet an hour before surgery for my wisdom teeth. I couldn't see straight 20 minutes after taking it. Cars looked like they had 4 wheels on each side and everything was wobbly.
We need Star Trek teeths. Some angry doctor named Bones gives you shit and has somethin' to grow some new choppers.
Like this.
Then you aren't playing right!
I think I'm ahead in the grand scheme of things with BJ. I'm not going to say I haven't lost money, because I have, but I seem to have more than my fair share of luck with BJ.
And slots. I seem to win on slots more often than I should.
Is that, like, a normal thing after they scrape your teeth
Same as it ever was.
seriously 99 cents for floss and toothpaste is the best investment you will make. dental shit is so expensive
College did not treat my teeth very well.
this was actually planned to happen a while ago, to get full top and bottom dentures. It was postponed due to finances, then for health reasons.
Then it became abcessed and the Dentist was "Ok, your molars need to come out before you die, the infection and rot will kill you soon."
So they yanked out all my molars and most of the remaining bottom teeth.
And thats what I have now. My mouth is a horror show.
i just don't want to die without a few scars
Like the Kumite. Or bear wrestling.
That was some goooood stuff.
Marriage.
How're you supposed to do it? Brushing in circles?
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/09/party.html
gotta get that shit taken out before i stop being a student
also apparently due to honours stress i've been chewing the shit out of my tongue while i've been sleeping and now it's gone all white and bitten up the sides
mouths are weird
I'm choosing to take this completely out of context
Why I never...!
your argument here is basically "I suffer from confirmation bias but have elected to treat that bias as though it were evidence"
Also my opinion is always right. That is a fact.
which I had to crank a quarter turn each night so that my jaw was gradually widened as the bone knitted back together, and after that I had braces fitted to move my teeth into the new space being created.
Eating with braces is painful, but eating with an expander is just damn awkward. After meals I would usually find a quite spot and sort of... schlurp off the food that was trapped between the expander and the roof of my mouth. Here's a fun way to recreate that sound at home:
1. Open up a text editor.
2. Place your fingers on the h, f, l, p, s and r keys
3. Mash them randomly for 30 seconds.
4. Read the result out loud while breathing in through your mouth.
My dental health has been pretty excellent since then. I brush and floss once a day with an electric toothbrush. I did chip a tooth recently, I think the enamel had been weakened from being an anchor point for the braces and expander. I am extremely grateful that I live in Australia and have decent private health cover though, so an unexpected trip to the dentist just means "Hmm better take it easy until the next payday" rather than "Hmm better sell all my stuff and get a second job".
When I got into middle school I had to start seeing an orthodontist because I had these awful gaps between nearly every one of my teeth. Before I could get braces though I had to use one of those wonderful expanders that Butler mentioned. Cranking those things with the weird metal key they give you is just incredibly painful. My mouth was pretty much perpetually sore from the constant tearing it went through making it a painful chore to eat.
After that I got to sit through six years of braces because of how slow my teeth were to adjust and not all of my adult teeth grew in because of the weird spacing. They ended up just settling on making space for an implant or bridge since I apparently one of my lateral incisors just never existed. Right as I was getting ready to get my braces off and my implant in and finish up with dental work in general someone hit me in the face with their laptop and knocked one of my front teeth out, so I ended up having to get a second implant done. At least I didn't have any wisdom teeth.
Q2: If you ever had braces/a retainer, do you ever have dreams about finding your retainer and putting it back in?
I've had terrible teeth though, from a combination of like 2-3 years of no insurance (and hence no visits), lots of soda, and sometimes only brushing once a day. Then I started noticing bits of my teeth falling off and was like "okay I need to go see a dentist now." I've since given up on sugary soda, though not on soda entirely.
I've gotten teeth dreams every now and then ever since then though. I guess they're one of the most common sorts of dreams?
I still wince whenever I watch this
What kind of fucked up shit is that?? If there is an intelligent creator, its a petulant and sadistic child. "Hey, here's something you have to use a LOT. Oh yeah, there's a nerve in EVERY ONE OF YOUR TEETH... and it can't fix itself. Take that, humans!"
The Apocalypse Has Never Been More Fun
Secret Satan Wishlist!! Thinkgeek Wish List
More like, "Oh, you think you're smart, eh? Well, here's a bone that's constantly exposed to your own shitty excretions and the stuff you have to cram into your maw to survive. Even if you figure out how to keep it from rotting away or causing an infection that can kill you, I also created a place called Alabama. Enjoy!"