Random Fail: First World Problems

[tyven]

you gots to floss fam

[Astylla]

Dental work is stupid expensive and I know I need more work but it terrifies me now that my dentist is retiring

Even with regular care some people just have bad teeth. I'm glad I got my dads side with that because my mom had nothing but issues all her life. It's probably the one thing I dread in life.

[AidenCarby]

If ya'll are really strapped for cash, you could always let students work on you

[Aksannyi]

I already know that I am going to hate everything about this job for the next few months. I pretty much knew that going in, because the only thing I even want to do right now is teach, but ugh. I have to suck it up because the bills aren't going to pay themselves, but sitting in training all I could think to myself was, "This is actual bullshit. I should be teaching. Let me do what I love."

[FNH]

Even with regular care some people just have bad teeth.

lol no. Cavities = not enough proper brushing.

[Boyiee]

Stop eating peanut butter and chocolate and washing it down with soda.

[zoobernut]

lol no. Cavities = not enough proper brushing.

It is amazing how not black and white health stuff can be. This is not true at least according to every dentist I have ever had. There are different body types and lots of different factors that lead to tooth decay besides poor mouth hygiene.

[BaneTheBrawler]

lol no. Cavities = not enough proper brushing.

because everyone is exactly the same always no matter what, amirite?


don't be dumb. "enough" is relative to each person.

[Ksandra]

lol no. Cavities = not enough proper brushing.

So wrong.

My husband has shitty teeth and he tries to maintain them like crazy. Brushing, flossing, using half those weird looking tools in his water thing thing (water flosser? idfk what they're called). Yet, we have spent so much fucking money on cavities, and root canals and shit for him.


I didn't go to the dentist for ten years, only brush, no flossing, and probably brush in half the time he does. No cavities when I went last year.

[FNH]

It is amazing how not black and white health stuff can be. This is not true at least according to every dentist I have ever had. There are different body types and lots of different factors that lead to tooth decay besides poor mouth hygiene.

Uhhhhh, no. A cavity is a direct result from bacteria remaining on the surface of your teeth. Eating and drinking garbage puts your teeth in contact with sugars and acids that promote bacteria growth. Not brushing enough(relative to how much garbage has been in your mouth) allows the acids and bacteria to decay the tooth. The only genetic problem is crevices, gaps, shit enamel and not enough saliva. But guess what! You just brush more often, drink water with fluoride, and floss!

[FNH]

Muh genetics! Healthy at every cavity.

[Ksandra]

Windows OS wanting to search the web by default in the search bar.


That's what I have fucking Chrome for, you shitheads.

[zoobernut]

Uhhhhh, no. A cavity is a direct result from bacteria remaining on the surface of your teeth. Eating and drinking garbage puts your teeth in contact with sugars and acids that promote bacteria growth. Not brushing enough(relative to how much garbage has been in your mouth) allows the acids and bacteria to decay the tooth. The only genetic problem is crevices, gaps, shit enamel and not enough saliva. But guess what! You just brush more often, drink water with fluoride, and floss!

I have had cavities that developed from the inside out. Perfectly pristine enamel over a soft spot on the inside of my tooth. How do I brush that problem away?

[Boyiee]

With your mind

[FNH]

I have had cavities that developed from the inside out. Perfectly pristine enamel over a soft spot on the inside of my tooth. How do I brush that problem away?

I've never heard of something like that, nor can I find evidence of such a thing happening. Probably best to put down the meth pipe, I guess?


edit: I have read of a few cases where the bacteria made it to the dentin and the enamel remineralized afterwards, but that could also be prevented by, you guessed it, proper oral hygiene.

[zoobernut]

I guess I either misunderstood my dentist or he lied to me but he was pretty clear that I was brushing enough and there was very little build up on my teeth and the condition of my enamel being very good and said that the cavities I had were unpreventable.

Maybe they technically were not cavities yet or maybe you are using the term cavity in a different capacity than he was.

Edit: My wife who specializes in dental work on cats and dogs just corrected me and said that what I have is resorptive lesions which are technically not cavities. The doctor just called them that.

[Byrthnoth]

Nah, cavities aren't entirely an oral hygiene thing. Some people have better enamel than others. My mom has lots of cavities. My dad has never had a cavity. Neither of them has smelly breath and both have good dental hygiene. I ended up like my dad.

Also, if you think you're making any kind of long term dent in the bacterial population of your mouth with tooth brushing then I've got some news for you. Bacteria on your teeth eat stuff and build up a layer of crap (plaque), which means further stuff they excrete will stay close to your teeth. Those waste products break down your enamel (cavity) and the bacteria get access to a part of the tooth they can start digesting. If they keep eating, their constant bacteriashit will eventually make a neuron in your tooth pulp fire and you'll feel it as a toothache.

In order to minimize cavities, you need to stop this process. Your options are:
1) You need to regularly remove plaque (brushing your teeth, but not so much or so hard that you cause gum erosion)
2) Fewer liquid calories (e.g. soda)
3) Reduce the number of things you eat that damage your enamel (e.g. soda)
4) Reduce the number of things you eat that both isolate the tooth and provide nutrients to bacteria (e.g. everything sticky and sweet)

The problem is that the process is continuous. Even if you are responsible and remove plaque regularly, more will form because you're never going to affect the bacterial content of your mouth. If people have shittier enamel or a more vulnerable set of teeth for some reason (like traumatic injury or the crazy hormones of pregnancy), they're going to get more cavities than someone who doesn't even with comparable dental hygiene.


If you've done all this and you still get asymptomatic cavities every other visit, consider changing your dentist. Dentists are notorious for basically bullshitting people about whether or not they have cavities, because it's really hard to personally verify whether you have an asymptomatic cavity. This is particularly true of DHMO offices, who make a lot of their money through procedures. I bitched to a dentist friend when I caught my previous dentist doing it. The friend told me it's basically an open secret in the field. He said they had a class in dentistry school about how to maximize practice profits which tapdanced around the topic so hard that you might say it outlined it. Look your dentist up on Yelp and pay attention to bad reviews.

[BaneTheBrawler]

its almost like FNH has no medical experience at all


shocking

[Anoat]

Never ceases to amaze me how many of my relatively intelligent friends on FB still fall for that "Share this post to enter our contest to win a free trip Disney World/Caribbean Islands/Paris etc" shit. It's not even hard to verify how much of a scam it is. Bleh.

[Melena]

Fucking tapatalk keeps trying to subscribe me to every thread I post in