Random teeth stuff
Why is it every time I drink a diet coke (I'm from Texas - so"coke" means Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc. - basically anything carbonated) that it feels like my enamel is dissolving off my teeth? I know it's an urban legend, but still....
I'm sort of a freak about teeth.
I carry floss with me at all times, I actually enjoy going to the dentist. I use Arm & Hammer baking soda toothpaste, but as a kid used only Crest (the blue gel). My sister was fascinated with Miss Piggy bubblegum toothpaste with silver glitter in it and to this day it makes me gag to smell artificial bubblegum flavoring.
When I was 14, I had very expensive liquid sealants that hardened into little enameled covered caps put into my back molars. I walked out of the dental office and chewed a piece of gum and they all immediately popped out. My family was not happy with me. The dentist had to redo them, twice. They still popped out.
I'm really bad about chewing on things - pens, ice, my nails... etc. or using my teeth to open things.
I'm horribly afraid of dentures (my great-grandmother used to be able to pop hers out at us with her tongue and I was petrified of them).
My next door neighbors had two sets of baby teeth come in and fall out. I thought that was incredibly cool.
I was one of the last kids in my class to lose a tooth. I lost my bottom two front teeth first, during the same weekend in first grade. One wasn't even really loose, but I wouldn't leave it alone until it fell out. I was so proud of my snaggletooth school pictures.
I lost a tooth in a Hostess chocolate pudding filled fried pie and haven't been able to eat them since.
I once left a letter for the tooth fairy to leave a picture of herself so I could know for sure she was real. I wasn't sure I believed, but I didn't want to be wrong and miss out.
My sisters all had braces. I didn't.
My teeth used to be fairly straight, but now - thanks to impacted wisdom teeth - they're kinda jumbled on the bottom. I'd like to get them now, but feel silly at my age about doing it.
I chipped a tooth last year and had to have the dentist file it down for me.
One of my front teeth has a flouride stain on it that makes it have an incredibly white stripe in it. It looks sort of like the little stars that cartoonists use to show that something is shiny. I used to hate it, but I've gotten used to it.
I had all four of my impacted wisdom teeth extracted at one time. So unlike normal adults who have 32 teeth, I have 28. I busted out all my stitches and got oreo crumbs stuck in the holes because I just couldn't take any more jello and mashed potatoes. I ended up with more stitches. Which I again promptly pulled out.
My tongue is just barely long enough to flip up and cover my upper teeth. My lingual frenulum should have been cut when I was a baby and it wasn't. My tongue is the shortest I've ever seen.
I dream about my teeth a lot... about them falling out or swallowing them. I have no idea what that means.
I'm sort of a freak about teeth.
I carry floss with me at all times, I actually enjoy going to the dentist. I use Arm & Hammer baking soda toothpaste, but as a kid used only Crest (the blue gel). My sister was fascinated with Miss Piggy bubblegum toothpaste with silver glitter in it and to this day it makes me gag to smell artificial bubblegum flavoring.
When I was 14, I had very expensive liquid sealants that hardened into little enameled covered caps put into my back molars. I walked out of the dental office and chewed a piece of gum and they all immediately popped out. My family was not happy with me. The dentist had to redo them, twice. They still popped out.
I'm really bad about chewing on things - pens, ice, my nails... etc. or using my teeth to open things.
I'm horribly afraid of dentures (my great-grandmother used to be able to pop hers out at us with her tongue and I was petrified of them).
My next door neighbors had two sets of baby teeth come in and fall out. I thought that was incredibly cool.
I was one of the last kids in my class to lose a tooth. I lost my bottom two front teeth first, during the same weekend in first grade. One wasn't even really loose, but I wouldn't leave it alone until it fell out. I was so proud of my snaggletooth school pictures.
I lost a tooth in a Hostess chocolate pudding filled fried pie and haven't been able to eat them since.
I once left a letter for the tooth fairy to leave a picture of herself so I could know for sure she was real. I wasn't sure I believed, but I didn't want to be wrong and miss out.
My sisters all had braces. I didn't.
My teeth used to be fairly straight, but now - thanks to impacted wisdom teeth - they're kinda jumbled on the bottom. I'd like to get them now, but feel silly at my age about doing it.
I chipped a tooth last year and had to have the dentist file it down for me.
One of my front teeth has a flouride stain on it that makes it have an incredibly white stripe in it. It looks sort of like the little stars that cartoonists use to show that something is shiny. I used to hate it, but I've gotten used to it.
I had all four of my impacted wisdom teeth extracted at one time. So unlike normal adults who have 32 teeth, I have 28. I busted out all my stitches and got oreo crumbs stuck in the holes because I just couldn't take any more jello and mashed potatoes. I ended up with more stitches. Which I again promptly pulled out.
My tongue is just barely long enough to flip up and cover my upper teeth. My lingual frenulum should have been cut when I was a baby and it wasn't. My tongue is the shortest I've ever seen.
I dream about my teeth a lot... about them falling out or swallowing them. I have no idea what that means.
posted by April at 5:26 PM
2 Comments:
The dream means you will embark on a new beginning very soon (or already have).
I lost my first tooth before it ever grew in...I was about 9 months old and my walker flipped, injuring my gums and destroying one of my front teeth.
Thats how people remember me...that girl who didn't have a front tooth...eventually when I was about 7 it grew in, with a flouride stain and all!
~V~
i love this post. i can relate. i also think about my teeth a lot.
as a 5 yr. old i fell off a merry-go-round and broke my front baby tooth. for almost a year, the tooth stayed brown because the roots were dead, finally the dentist pulled it.
i had braces once and my teeth were perfectly straight. since then, i have grown wisdom teeth and the gaps are returning.
i have also had many dreams in the past year that my teeth were falling out...
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