For the first time in my life I had a tooth break. It is a front one on the bottom. It felt rigid and wrong in my mouth so I began to investigate with my fingers when a piece of my tooth, in the back, crumbled into my mouth.
It felt like I was on Deja Vu: The Ride. All those dozens of dreams I’ve had about my teeth crumbling out of my head and the powerless feeling that accompanied them came surging back. It was an odd place to be, living in reality the dreams you’ve long ago buried.
Luckily, the breakage is minor and not visible to anyone, evenme really. This one of those times when it would be nice to have a flip-top head. Anyway, I’m totally flossing now night and day, everyday. I like my teeth. They chew my food and hold my lips up.
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Man, I just had a dream a couple nights ago about my teeth crumbling out of my head. It was pretty disturbing.
It just fell out all by itself? You didn’t hit it on anything? I think that’s a little bit not natural and might be worth checking out…
Yeah, no shit. Front teeth usually don’t break like that. I’ve never had a cavity, so I’m not sure what the shit is happening. There is some discoloration on the back sides of my bottom two front teeth, but not at all in the front.
Anyway, I’m calling to make an appointment tomorrow.
Good luck, but I’m just curious: Day one of what?
I barely remember, but back when I was maybe 8, I started chewing on an unpopped popcorn kernel, and shattered two or three teeth. It was kind of an odd feeling, both physically and psychologically—things like that just shouldn’t happen, so it seems, but they do—but I wasn’t terribly freaked out. My dentist just sucked it all out somehow, and boom, I was down to 29 or so teeth.
However, when I actually LOOk at someone with a chipped tooth, I cringe. This recently happened when they interviewed a tsunami survivor. His front tooth was chipped, for all to see. I winced big time.
“I cannot stop tounging it”
A perfect blog header. What’s up with your header contest anyway?
I had a similar experience with a popcorn kernal. It was a baby tooth cracked in half, it came out shortley thereafter.
When I had my wisdom teeth removed some damage must have been started on the adjacent teeth because out of nowhere a chunk (small, but still a chunk) fell off of one a few years back. I wasn’t eating anything overly crunchy at the time so I have to assume that most of the damage was done earlier. Perhaps this is one of those situations: you knocked your bottom teeth with a bottle or something a year or so ago and it’s been slowly crunching away at your teeth since then, like a rock hitting your windshield and leaving a tiny divot that slowly spreads until half of your windshield is about to shatter.
(And I assume “day one of 30″ means you’re back on the novel-in-a-month project? If so, good luck!)
I had a giant filling in my molar then one day
the whole corner of the crown fell off.
The feeling of terror that swept over my was immence, it was like I lost a limb or something. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I kept tounguing it all day 24 hours a day, “yep my tooth is still gone”
“Damn I hate the dentist,”
it ended up costing $500 for a new crown, that was sensitive for a year after ward.
Sometimes I think my nerves are extra juiced up, so I feel pain and pleasure more intensely. Tooth pain is always a fear of mine. I sweet out every cleanning.
mmmmm… had a root canal this morning. so fun. nothing like losing a bunch of teeth to get you over the dread of losing teeth. I recommend skateboarding.
One of my very worst nightmares was that I was chewing something and that my teeth started crumbling. I was chewing up my own teeth (with what?) and I COULD NOT STOP. Blood was pouring out of my mouth, along with handfuls of teeth fragments. The texture felt like chewing sugar cubes. They didn’t just crack in half like they would in real life, no, they required follow-through.
The scariest part was knowing that I was fucking up my mouth forever and not being able to stop becuase the crunch was so satisfying.
In the back? You sure it wasn’t just calculus crumbling of? Happens when you don’t have it scaled by the dentist once a year or so…
Ahem. Tonguing.
The location of the “u” always throws me off, too.
Awww heck, tonguing gets misspelled so often it may as well be a word in its own rite.
I just chipped my feckin tooth.
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