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A few years back, shortly after moving to a new town, I went to a dentist for a cleaning & check. She told me I'd need to replace my crown -- but luckily, the h

by floren 2y ago

A few years back, shortly after moving to a new town, I went to a dentist for a cleaning & check. She told me I'd need to replace my crown -- but luckily, the hygienist chimed in, they had just bought a brand-new state-of-the-art crown-making machine so they could do it right there the same day! Then, adjusting her Invisalign-branded face shield, the dentist asked me if I'd ever considered Invisalign. I finished the cleaning and told them not to call me any more. That turned me off dentists so much I didn't go back to anybody for over 2 years. Finally I did actually start having trouble with that crown just before a vacation, so I picked the first local guy who could see me on short notice. He did some x-rays, pulled the crown off, cleaned it up, and glued it back in. 30 minutes, $100. He does x-rays the old fashioned way, by jamming a bunch of uncomfortable bits of film into your mouth. Most of the equipment is kind of dated, and there's not a ton of staff. I cherish this dentist.

rustcleaner 2y ago
No shit: It's been fourteen years for me since last dentist I went to, which was for swelling on the inside-side gum of my bottom-right wisdom tooth plus a little tiny sore/abcess in the gum around 2-3 teeth forward of it and about a cm down from the gum line (inside), with something feeling very hard right at the bottom of the abcess with my fingernail. I go to two offices which both fail to locate anything in my mouth. Both shill wisdom tooth extraction (I still have all), and I refuse. At home I begin to irrigate between gumline and wisdom tooth with mouthwash using a 26-ga syringe (originally pushed test cyp) until swelling is gone, and over that period that hard spot I thought was my exposed jawbone at the bottom of the abcess began extending out a bit until I managed to grasp it with a fingernail and pulled it out: turned out to be a half-cm section of jawbone which was on the inside wall of the wisdom tooth, which must have cracked off and migrated a few teeth over, to slowly pierce out the gum. I still have that bone in a baggie, a little divot on the gum just below the gum-line of my back-right wisdom tooth where that piece of bone used to be under the gum, and all four wisdom teeth! No tooth pain, no (apparent) cavities or rot, they are yellow/stained because coffee and cigars, I hardly brush (I mean hardly) and probably floss & mouthwash 10x as often as brushing, and even that is very irregular (few times/week). I hardly consume sugar and watch carbs like it's slow-kill cumulative poison. I have a mouth built by the gods!

by floren 2y ago

rustcleaner 2y ago

No shit: It's been fourteen years for me since last dentist I went to, which was for swelling on the inside-side gum of my bottom-right wisdom tooth plus a little tiny sore/abcess in the gum around 2-3 teeth forward of it and about a cm down from the gum line (inside), with something feeling very hard right at the bottom of the abcess with my fingernail. I go to two offices which both fail to locate anything in my mouth. Both shill wisdom tooth extraction (I still have all), and I refuse. At home I begin to irrigate between gumline and wisdom tooth with mouthwash using a 26-ga syringe (originally pushed test cyp) until swelling is gone, and over that period that hard spot I thought was my exposed jawbone at the bottom of the abcess began extending out a bit until I managed to grasp it with a fingernail and pulled it out: turned out to be a half-cm section of jawbone which was on the inside wall of the wisdom tooth, which must have cracked off and migrated a few teeth over, to slowly pierce out the gum. I still have that bone in a baggie, a little divot on the gum just below the gum-line of my back-right wisdom tooth where that piece of bone used to be under the gum, and all four wisdom teeth! No tooth pain, no (apparent) cavities or rot, they are yellow/stained because coffee and cigars, I hardly brush (I mean hardly) and probably floss & mouthwash 10x as often as brushing, and even that is very irregular (few times/week). I hardly consume sugar and watch carbs like it's slow-kill cumulative poison. I have a mouth built by the gods!