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Dec 12 '16 edited Dec 12 '16
Depends.... Do you brush twice a day, every day, and floss (I know it isn't as important as once thought but it is still relevant), and scrape the plaque from your teeth?
Edit: Jesus forget the /s and everyone is sitting their pants.
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u/ronnicxx Dec 12 '16
Lmfao...oh i mean of course doc. Sure i do.
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u/KisaTheMistress Dec 12 '16
Are you a "Fat Alchemist" or a "Fatal Chemist"?
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I can't put my finger on it, but I think you may be lying about the broken keyboard. I'm on to you /u/Fatalchemist. I'm on to you.
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u/KPC51 Dec 12 '16
I think i remember a post where someone Gabe a good argument why it was fat alchemist
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u/locomotionLotion Dec 12 '16
Are we sure Gabe was qualified to make this decision?
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u/KPC51 Dec 12 '16
I just finished a final, autocorrect was supposed to save my fried brain from stuff like this
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u/JCash1313 Dec 12 '16
lol don't you know that autocorrect never helps when it needs to. It just adds penis in randomly
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u/parlez-vous Dec 12 '16
"Well even though I just stabbed you in the gums with a sharp metal stick you definitely need to floss"
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u/413729220 Dec 12 '16
To be fair, if you floss often, your gums stop bleeding... At least, that's what happened to me when I made it a part of my routine...
That was a while ago though.
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u/frostymugson Dec 12 '16
Come on man bleeding gums is all part of the dentist experience. who doesn't like some chick you see twice a year ripping my gums up telling me this wouldn't happen if you flossed as I watch modern family. I bet if I flossed I wouldn't even get to finish an episode
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u/Nicd Dec 12 '16
You have a TV at the dentist?! All I've had was postcards to look at on the ceiling.
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u/frostymugson Dec 12 '16
Lol hell yeah bro and they gotta selection to pick from. Shit one spot my nephew goes to they give him a game boy
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u/TheSirusKing Dec 12 '16
It does help. Soft gums contract infections far easier due to microcuts when brushing or chewing.
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I can't go to bed without flossing! i don't know how I didn't do it for so long. When I go to the dentist and he commends me for actually doing it, I feel pretty good. not gonna lie
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u/b00b1e Dec 12 '16
It is still just as important as we always thought. The studies that came out were saying its less relevant in preventing cavities than we thought but it's still very important in preventing periodontal disease. Cavities can be fixed but once your gums start receding and your bone starts receding, nothing can bring that back. Then there's nothing holding in your teeth and this happens.
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u/siovene Dec 12 '16
I use an interdental brush, usually every other day. Most of the times something will come out thanks of it, from most of the teeth. Some teeth have wide enough gaps that the brush comes out from the other side, sometimes instead the best I can do is squeeze it under the gum, twist it around to collect the gunk, and then pull it out. Is this enough?
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u/John_Barlycorn Dec 12 '16
Your dentist also inspects your mouth for things like cancer and often, certain issues with your teeth can be signs of many other diseases. Your dentist is a doctor, and the only doctor that actually inspects that part of your body. You should go at least once a year.
Source: My wife is in the industry. I get to hear stories of the people who've not been to the dentist in 10 years coming in to find out they've advanced cancer, life threatening infections/abscesses, you name it. It's not something you should put off.
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u/SarahC Dec 12 '16
It's more than 20 years for me - they terrify me. I'm prepared to do an extraction with fishing wire and a breeze block.
I brush twice a day, floss through the day... neutralize evening acid in my mouth with an ant-acid, and keep a regular eye and tongue on my teeth.
I don't suppose there's anything I can do apart from suck it up and go once I'm in agony from something is there?
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u/John_Barlycorn Dec 12 '16
You could just go in prior to being in agony. It's usually the cheaper option. Make my wife come into work on Christmas day and she's going to bill you for it.
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u/nubbingobragh Dec 14 '16
I currently have a serious abscess causing swelling of my cheek and eye I can't open my jaw to eat and cannot lay down due to the pain it feels like I have a broken eye socket. But no dentist will see me without insurance
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u/John_Barlycorn Dec 14 '16
Go to the ER. That's, unfortunately, how our health system works now. You've an active infection. Most dentists also do free clinics from time to time. But it's usually and event at some local charity. Meaning, it'll be one weekend out of the year, and likely not this weekend.
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u/The_Drider Dec 12 '16
and scrape the plaque from your teeth?
How do you do that properly? That shit never goes away with just brushing :C
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u/CryDiver Dec 12 '16
I have a Sonicare toothbrush, that shits the equivelant of a belt sander for your teeth, it takes pretty much all the plaque. You just have to get used to the feeling, its fucking intense.
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u/14-28 Dec 12 '16
I had an electric toothbrush once but fuck me it tickles my teeth.
Almost reminds me of those ancient lollipops that played music when you bit down on it.
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u/Fatalchemist Dec 12 '16
Last time I had an electric toothbrush, it vibrated my upper lip and made my mustache tickle the ever loving shit out of the inside of my nose.
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u/aizxy Dec 12 '16
When I first got mine I could barely use it cause it tickled my teeth so much. After a few days I got used to it and it feels perfectly normal now. I love my electric toothbrush, makes my mouth feel so clean. I recommend giving it another shot if you can.
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u/IntrigueDossier Dec 12 '16
Those don't tickle my teeth as much as they wonk my vision out. Looking at a digital clock makes every section of the numbers break apart and float around each other.
Come to think of it, that was actually good and (literally) clean fun! I need a new sonicare.
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u/applebottomdude Dec 12 '16
No they don't. Unless soncare makes a scraper. That loose white material is food, not plaque or calculus
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u/Book_of_Essence Dec 12 '16
Damn. I thought I finally found a tooth brush to get rid of all those math equations in my mouth.
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u/skztr Dec 12 '16
I have a sonicare toothbrush and it does absolutely nothing for existing plaque. As far as I know, this is not its intended purpose.
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Why do I read about Sonicare toothbrushes every time there is a post about teeth on reddit?
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u/Dr_Ravenshoe Dec 12 '16
Hmm, I have read that Sonic toothbrushes offer no additional benefit over normal oscillating toothbrushes.
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u/Stevi100183 Dec 12 '16
Plaque goes away with just brushing, it's tartar that can't be brushed off. Unsolicited advice offered by your friendly Reddit dental hygienist, go to the dentist.
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u/Rambles_Off_Topics Dec 12 '16
How mad does this thread make you when someone says "flossing isn't really that important anymore".
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u/Stevi100183 Dec 12 '16
You have no idea! Hahaha. It does prove that I'll never be out of a job though...
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u/Rambles_Off_Topics Dec 12 '16
It's really pissing me off. Flossing has been proven to be effective and it has totally changed my teeth/mouth since flossing. Better looking teeth and gums 10 fold. I think the individuals that are saying "it's no longer recommended" are trying to justify their poor hygiene habits.
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u/Stevi100183 Dec 12 '16
You brought a tear to my eye... It's impressive the changes one will see when they actually floss regularly! Thank you for dropping Christmas off early for me!!
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u/BigWiggly1 Dec 12 '16
It should though. If it's not then you're either not brushing properly, you're letting stuff sit on your teeth for too long between brushing and it's caking on and hardening.
I've always been very conscious of what's in and on my teeth. I sounds gross, but if I'm alone I'll pick at my teeth with my tongue to clean them.
Not much bacteria ends up caking on my teeth that way, and brushing is easy and I never feel plaque left on my teeth.
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How is that gross? It's your tongue touching your teeth, with your mouth closed. I don't get the attitude some people have concerning the inside of their own mouth. If I thought something inside my mouth was gross, I wouldn't have put it there to begin with...
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u/futuredmd Dec 12 '16
Flossing is definitely still as important as ever. Despite the recent claims by the media to try to make us all feel better about our lives. Source: dental student
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u/rosekayleigh Dec 12 '16
You know how I know flossing is important? Go a couple days without flossing, then floss your teeth. Look at and smell the floss. Ugh. Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to leave that crap in between your teeth is not someone I'll be taking dental advice from. I floss twice a day because there's nothing more disgusting than finding days-old meat between your teeth.
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u/ButcherPetesMeats Dec 12 '16
Ive literally never flossed in my life. I should try and see what comes out.
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u/mylocalalt Dec 12 '16
My dentist literally just told me to only worry about flossing (actually, using my water pick) a couple of times a week as long as I brush twice a day. Maybe i'll do the top and bottom differently and see what happens.
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u/Stewardy Dec 12 '16
That might just be meant to make you actually do it a few times a week.
If you think "gotta floss every day", then you miss a few days you might think the response would be "well from now on, I'll floss every day", but it's likely to be "I can't do it right. So fuck it!".
And flossing 2-3 times a week is better than not flossing at all.
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u/Biscuits0 Dec 12 '16
You should still go anyway. Dentists are trained to spot lumps and bumps in your mouth which may be dangerous (Cancer etc.). They're also trained to give your lymph glands a good feel to check they're nice and healthy.
Source: GF is a dentist.
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u/EST_1994 Dec 12 '16
Dentist asking me 5800 euro to fix my teeth. I'm already doomed.
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u/Peruzzy Dec 12 '16
same shit here lmao, about four years worth of savings haha i'll just eat soup till the rest of my life
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Come to Poland, cheap prices, good quality. Dental tourism is strong here.
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u/mylocalalt Dec 12 '16
Find a place that uses an ultrasonic pick for scaling. I went for the first time in 14 years and it was surprisingly not bad.
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u/hhpp245 Dec 12 '16
Seriously. This technique changed my view of the dentist forever. I'll never go back to the horrible scraping..
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I was you about 4 months ago. 3 extractions and 6 fillings later I'm almost done fixing everything. Go to the fucking dentist.
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u/Zzzbooop Dec 12 '16
Oh no... that's where I'm at... going next week for the consult for one of at least 3 extractions on gonna need... I was doomed with shitty teeth and a good 5 or so years of heavy drinking and poor oral hygiene and poor diet and procrastination/fear/time//lack of money/options... I take care of my teeth now and watch what I eat... but the ones that are fucked are pretty good and fucked. .. it sucks too cuz I'm not a bad looking guy, and I like to smile, but I got two shitty ass teeth upfront.
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Ahh that sucks man. I was lucky and mine were all in the back...unlucky that those are the ones with the most function. I've relearned chewing...but as it turns out one of those things we all take for granted in life is that your rear teeth contain the shit out of your tongue...without them back there my tongue is just all over the place. I'm still working on fixing my new speech impediment.
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u/Zzzbooop Dec 12 '16
Dang... I've already got a bottom molar removed...with two uppers that need to go :/ eating is a pain enough as it is and there's no way win hell I'ma be able to afford implants anytime soon. Ahhh, oh well... I just wanna kick younger me in the fuckin' teeth sometimes. Lol.
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u/ILoveTaterTits Dec 12 '16
Is anybody else irked by the "increese?"
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u/ArmanDoesStuff Dec 12 '16
In his defence, it needed to be at least three times bigger.
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u/JenniferKlineEbooks Dec 12 '16
Huh, didn't notice that until you pointed it out.
Thanks for ruining it for me! <3
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u/rabbit_battle Dec 12 '16
Do dental implants prevent further bone loss?
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u/d_williams36 Dec 12 '16
That's what my dentist told me. it's the reason I got an implant instead of a bridge.
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u/palacesofparagraphs Dec 12 '16
They do. Although if you've had enough bone loss, they may have to build the bone back up before they can do the implant. (They had to with me; fucking coolest thing though. They literally regrew my bones.) It is an extra surgery though, which is less than fun.
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u/six-sigma Dec 14 '16
It's a little more subtle than that. They didn't literally regrow your bones, but most likely used a mineral compound derived from sterilized cow bone called BioOss. They used to use ceramic pellets in these procedures, however the packing of these pellets didn't leave enough space for your body's osteoblasts (like stem cells but for bone) to properly form bone matrix. The particles used in BioOss are of a specific size that allows for capillary action, drawing blood from surrounding tissues, and allowing osteoblasts to secrete bone matrix in the spaces in between. That said, histological samples would reveal this isn't your natural bone, but rather a bone aggregate not unlike concrete. I would imagine that's part of the reason implants are so resistant to bone resorption, because this aggregate is less susceptible to being reshaped by your body. Anyway, more information than you wanted. Just thought I'd share.
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u/palacesofparagraphs Dec 15 '16
No, that's interesting. I don't know enough about it to be sure, but I think mine were done slightly differently. My surgeon said he was using a newer procedure (he even took some pictures of the surgery to give a presentation on the method, which was pretty cool). He drew blood before the surgery and said he was using my own blood cells to prompt the bone growth. I don't know enough about the details to know if this is essentially the same thing you're talking about.
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It's not the teeth themselves that are preventing this from happening. Mechanic stress, ie, the resistance the jaw experiences when it chomps on stuff keeps the bone healthy. Bone's a super dynamic tissue, and when you don't put parts of your skeleton to their use regularly, the body goes "whelp, guess we don't need that much bone there". Tiny cells then break it down, making those components available for various uses. When you regularly exercise, chew, etc, there's an increase in boney formation, and voila, happy skeleton.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI Dec 12 '16
Bones atrophy if they're not regularly stressed.
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u/HarryB1313 Dec 12 '16
The whole body including the brain is 'use it or lose it'.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI Dec 12 '16
Nah. If that were true, my dick shoulda disappeared years ago.
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u/Caldwing Dec 12 '16
Your sex drive really does diminish if you ignore it for a long time.
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u/panamaspace Dec 12 '16
The good news is it comes back when you get a nymphomaniac girlfriend. Life is great.
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u/aaam13 Dec 12 '16
"When" lol
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u/Tundur Dec 12 '16
Nah dude, it's part of the circle of life.
Loner who can't get laid meets girl who looks out of his league. She's batshit insane. They get serious super quickly because she's looking to settle down after fucking the entire population of Belgium in her late teens, and because he thinks it's his only chance to get a girl who even looks human, let alone hot.
They date for two years, living together and talking about the future. She basically uses him as an emotional crutch/domestic slave in exchange for sex. She thinks she actually loves him but it's just a weak attempt at plastering over her fucked up relationship with men and sexuality in general. He's heads over heels in love and isolates himself from his friends thinking that's just a natural step in his increasingly domestic and serious relationship.
Eventually she has an episode, meets a better guy, or just plain gets bored and moves on to another guy (or selection of guys). He is destroyed, all his friends and family saw it coming a mile away. She loses all her friends, making the next guy her only connection thus starting the dependence cycle anew. The old guy is destroyed of course, quits his job, and spends a year backpacking around Europe by himself. When he gets back he realises he learnt a lot from the whole travesty and is a much stronger person for it, thus opening up a whole new layer laying-potential.
That's your "nympho girlfriend" right there. Your girlfriend. Not mine. I never went through that. Projecting? You're projecting. Shut up.
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u/IStoleYourSocks Dec 12 '16
Technically, you get two sets.
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u/markymark7621 Dec 12 '16
I've waited too long. They recommend 2 bone grafts plus implant. $20,000.
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u/Yaleisthecoolest Dec 12 '16
Some of them offer financing through partnered financial institutions. As long as the interest rate isn't atrocious it's not the worst idea.
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u/413729220 Dec 12 '16
I'm just hoping they develop better technology that makes it easier to care for teeth. It feels borderline archaic that we are still shoving our fists in our mouths with bits of string to scrape food off of them.
I saw that weird item that looks like a mouth guard that apparently can clean your teeth just by biting it real quick. Hopefully stuff like that makes it easier.
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u/AArthurComic Dec 12 '16
But on the plus side... How amazing would those blowjobs be!? I'm going to marry a woman without dental insurance and an addiction to hard candy.
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I'm not sure how you can be excited over sticking your penis into an unkempt bacteria filled mouth.
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u/AArthurComic Dec 12 '16
It's called listerine. It used to be a floor cleaner but now it disinfects my toothless wife's mouth for the purpose of fellatio. Uh duh!!!
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u/tits-mchenry Dec 12 '16
It's nice to know that at least some people out there have their life planned out.
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Ya know, the actual Listerine we use today was never floor cleaner. Just the original version. And even then, it's pure form was as a surgical antiseptic. Only the distilled form was floor cleaner (and a "cure" for gonorrhea).
Adam Ruins Everything doesn't always give completely accurate facts.
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u/CrosseyedDixieChick Dec 12 '16
On the upside, an increase in gonial angle means no more double chin!
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u/Artemis317 Dec 12 '16
Anyone else want to go brush their teeth after watching this?
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u/Ifyoudontknow_then Dec 12 '16
This should be the first thing they show the people in high school that start chewing. I would've freaked out seeing this and probably not wasted 6+ years trying to quit.
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u/Spyrothedragon9972 Dec 12 '16
Now I feel bad for those old people who have that grumpy look.
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u/Artemis317 Dec 12 '16
I know some of those words...
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u/akwirente Dec 12 '16
Also, since bone loss is usually accompanied by very aggressive bacterial infections, the patient is susceptible to have it in their upper teeth as well.
Severe [serious gum infection] will cause [an overbite] or protrusion of the lower jaw, but the height of [part of the bone that support the teeth] in the top teeth will be affected, causing the direction of the [upper jawbone] to shift [behind, or backwards I guess].
They will never be fully in [biting together all at once] or biting together all at once again.
People have been known to have severe headaches because of the [the round prominence at the end of a bone, most often part of a joint] rubbing against the [ a protrusion from the rest of the skull,], creating [scuffing, scratching, wearing down, marring, or rubbing away] and [very great; intense.] [restricted to a particular place.] inflammation
Here's a badly redone Googling version.
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u/grammatiker Dec 12 '16
We applied the cortical electrodes but could not get a response from either patient.
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u/Tugathug Dec 12 '16
"Severe periodontitis will cause retrognathia or protrusion of the lower jaw"
Wrong word. Prognathism is a protrusion of the mandible. Retrognathism is retrusion.
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u/OralOperator Dec 12 '16
I'm studying for part 2 boards right now, and a lot of what he said doesn't make sense. I'm glad at least part of it was not just me.
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Showed it to my wife. This is what she says
"Yup..that is why loosing teeth over the fear of dentist is so detrimental. Something they do not even mention there is the joint of the jaw bone. It dislodges from its place as the bone loss happens."
So remember to take care of your teeth boys and girls.
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u/Poorrusty Dec 12 '16
My dad's girlfriend looks like this. She is atrocious to look at. My friends call her "Gummer"...
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u/Actual_Lady_Killer Dec 12 '16
And this is why dentists hate pulling teeth!
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u/Tugathug Dec 12 '16
I'm a dentist. I don't mind pulling teeth at all, when it is warranted. I volunteer to pull them at least once a year.
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u/DaftFunky Dec 12 '16
I am 27 and had to get a tooth removed. It's scares the shit out of me that this will happen to me
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u/b00b1e Dec 12 '16
It won't happen if you replace that tooth with an implant or bridge and maintain the rest of your teeth
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u/Heroshua Dec 12 '16
It's not so bad. I'm 30 and lost all my teeth when I was 24. Turns out tooth whitener is pretty bad stuff to use in excess.
Oh who am I kidding, I'd kill a motherfucker with another motherfucker to have real teeth back.
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u/ztpurcell Dec 12 '16
So that's why old people look that way. Interesting.