Do you still have most of your Natural teeth?

Radrook

Radrook

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Some people lose their teeth rather early. I have most at of mine although some need work. Can't imagine myself going around toothless.

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If the topic of this thread psychologically traumatizes you, please feel free to totally ignore it and not participate. :rolleyes:
 

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My upper incisors were broken in a serious fall about 30yrs ago, and they've been capped and re-capped a few times. The same fall caused a few molars to crack. I got them capped and one of them is holding up just fine, but the other 2 eventually had to be extracted. So, no false teeth and no implants, but I'm missing a couple molars.
 
Three of my 4 wisdom teeth were extracted in my 20s. The fourth - nope, I waited till too late in life. Oral surgeon said it was risky taking that one due to the possibility of cutting a nerve that I can't afford to have cut.

I lost two molars along the way and I have 3 crowns on other molars. As I'm a brass player, I can't afford to lose any more. Last update from the dentist 2 weeks ago -- no cavities, no issues. Just a good cleaning was needed and done.
 
Last year, I had a couple more teeth going bad. I was down to about half my original teeth, and had a couple of partials. So, I had the rest pulled, and went to full dentures. There was a period of several weeks that I had to live on soft foods until the gums healed, and i got the permanent dentures. Now, I can eat pretty much everything, and I'm no longer wasting money on dental insurance that barely covered half of the costs I was incurring.
 
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Don M. said:
Last year, I had a couple more teeth going bad. I was down to about half my original teeth, and had a couple of partials. So, I had the rest pulled, and went to full dentures. There was a period of several weeks that I had to live on soft foods until the gums healed, and i got the permanent dentures. Now, I can eat pretty much everything, and I'm no longer wasting money on dental insurance that barely covered half of the costs I was incurring.
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That sounds like a brave thing to do. You must have had great confidence in dentures.
 
Aging Audra said:
Other than my 4 wisdom teeth, I have all of my natural teeth.
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The biting edges of my two upper central teeth are wearing down and get sore when I brush them there. Several years ago, I asked my elderly dentist about it and he began chuckling while describing it as a normal aging effect. I have often wondered what that chuckling was about.
 
Still have all of mine including wisdom teeth. Two teeth have crowns though because old old fillings in them led to cracks. So far so good on the other two fillings.

My dentist still insists that I'm doing well because I was born and grew up in the first city in the world to add fluoride to the public water supply. My previous dentist who made the crowns said it's possible those 4 fillings I got at age 17 might not even have been needed, though professionally he couldn't suggest the old dentist was lining his pockets because so much business had dried up due to the fluoridation following WW II.
 


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