I have good, naturally straight teeth. But I have a problem with clenching my jam at night with causes cracks and damage. I do have a bite plane, but I don't sleep well with it in. I woke up the other night with the bite plane in my hand, and my hand sticking out from under the covers. It took a few more minutes to wake up enough to figure out I needed to get to the bathroom and put it in it's case.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Jan 29, 2015 8:58:22 am PST #17565 of 30000
hip deep in pie
SailAweigh - Jan 29, 2015 9:06:14 am PST #17566 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
clenching my jaw at night which causes cracks and damage
That's why I have crowns. My teeth have fillings, then they crack, then I eat popcorn and there goes part of a tooth. I have one tooth my dentist is pushing me to crown because it's cracked and the filling is getting a little loose. I really should tell him at my next cleaning to schedule the crown.
P.M. Marc - Jan 29, 2015 9:07:39 am PST #17567 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My grinding was apparently why my gums were so inflamed. I'm still crap about sleeping with my night guard, though.
tommyrot - Jan 29, 2015 9:09:39 am PST #17568 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For some reason when I was in fifth grade I stopped brushing my teeth. Then I got five cavities at same time. So I went back to brushing and since then I've had a few cavities in the last ten years but with bi-yearly dentist visits they were all small and easy to fix.
Eta: I haven't always taken the best care of my teeth the last ten years. Like not brushing my teeth on weekends when I was depressed.
Jesse - Jan 29, 2015 9:10:33 am PST #17569 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In 1930s England. We've come a long way.
Oh yeah. Both of my grandfathers had dentures as far back as I can remember, so no older than 60. But neither of my grandmothers ever did.
I'm pretty sure a woman who worked at my old nail salon got dentures in her 20s or 30s, but my assumption there was that it was cheaper than fixing multiple bad teeth.
brenda m - Jan 29, 2015 9:12:10 am PST #17570 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, depression over the years has definitely taken a toll on my tooth care.
Ginger - Jan 29, 2015 9:13:31 am PST #17571 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have gone to the dentist twice a year and flossed for most of my life. My teeth started falling apart in my teens. I have nine inlays and onlays (formerly 11) and have had to have three teeth pulled. I have the world's most expensive implant, since that tooth had a root canal, was broken during surgery and had two crowns that failed.
I inherited my mother's teeth. I lose at the genetic lottery.
-t - Jan 29, 2015 9:14:59 am PST #17572 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My parents both still have mostly their own teeth in their 70s, so I expect to, also. I probably have an extra edge from fluoridated water - they started adding fluoride in between when my mom was pregnant with my older brother and me and I have had noticeably less trouble with my teeth all my life than he has. Other than the crookedness, but that seems like a separate issue to me.
Fred Pete - Jan 29, 2015 9:15:14 am PST #17573 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
My father had partial dentures (upper, I think) as far back as I can remember, so before he turned 30. He was born during the '30s. I have all of my own teeth (except wisdom teeth) in my 50s.
Laura - Jan 29, 2015 9:17:28 am PST #17574 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
My mother is 93 and has all of her teeth except 1, and ZERO cavities. When she was a child she had a cavity and it was less expensive to pull than to fill so it was pulled. Genetics. Alas, I got my father's teeth.
We blamed it on her grandmother that raised her on dairy in everything, but I expect it was more long term genetics.