Howz yer chomperz sonny?

[CavLancer]

Just had my third tooth out in as many years. One that came out today had a cavity on the root. As I get older the root got exposed and there was a cavity on it, so, had it yanked. Been toting it around for the last 5 decades, but no more. Lady dentist, my first ever totally painless dentistry, 3 in a row. After a bit she told me she couldn't get it out and I was about to try to convince her to to so when I saw the tooth in her dental tool on the tray. Comedian too. She has a knack for getting the painkiller juice just right, artist. Most teeth I've had out since I was a kid when they pulled 4, my teeth are too big for my jaw. Dunno why. Pulled 4 and the rest fit, kinda. Then a decade ago I had one root canal done against my mothers advice which is later in this story. Decided then to never have another. A guy should listen to his mom. Besides that dentist in the US didn't use pain killer so much as killer pain. It hurt.

Why not have it filled or get another root canal?

Lady dentist today said she thought she could fill it, but if bacteria had gotten into the root it wouldn't last. The root canal...besides having sworn to never again... Well maybe 40 years ago my mother was telling me she's had the last of her teeth out. Now it was a matter of family history that every time we went on vacation one of her caps would come off or something would happen to cause her to go to a dentist in the middle of everything, frustrating for her. She told me after they were all finally out that if she had known how easy it was to live without em that she would have had all of them taken out ages ago. I took that to heart with the one exception. Now that I'm old, if a tooth goes bad I go to my favorite dentist and say goodbye to it.

Costs $10 to have a tooth out here, but I paid $20 because she deserved it.

I asked the dentist today if I should take antibiotics or gargle with whiskey or anything now that its out, and she said no. It would close right up and was well designed by God. I said well... if I could have suggested to God anything design-wise long ago it would be to not include nerves inside teeth. Nothing but a pain, serve no good purpose that I can tell. She explained that she'd be out of a job, not a good idea.

Got teeth? Any issues?

 

[warpus]

I have some teeth. I use them to bite things and I brush them every day. My dentist tells me I should be flossing but I read some studies that say that flossing doesn't do anything, so I don't floss. They weren't designed by God though. I sort of wish they were, imagine how awesome your teeth would be if they were designed by an all-powerful being, you probably wouldn't have to brush either

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I had one molar pulled out last year. It had broken in half and got infected a couple times, and as it turns out one of the roots was so deep that it provided access to my sinus cavity so I got a sinus infection both times. Getting it pulled seemed a good solution, since I had pretty well stopped chewing on that side anyway since it broke. Now I chew soft foods on that side, but still avoid things like chips that might gouge where the tooth is missing.

 

[Commodore]

I have actually been very lucky with my teeth. They all came in perfectly fine to where I never needed braces or anything like that as a kid. I didn't even need to have my wisdom teeth pulled, but the Army did it anyway under the reasoning that they might not be causing problems at the moment, but they might in the future. That sounded like crap to me, but whatever. It got me two days of no duty and 10 days of no PT so it wasn't all bad.

 

[CavLancer]

I'm really looking forward to my gums filling thins hole, can't keep my tongue out of it. Its big too, lost a slice of pizza in it the other day. It worked out alright, came out a couple hours later when I was getting hungry again.