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Post by Caajscot (John) on Oct 14, 2015 6:33:04 GMT -8
Wow, what a cost. FML can mean three words, one being Family Medical Leave or another one I won't print in here lol. It's the other one Originally they said I should be okay to have the three that need to come out taken today, but I'm still in a lot of pain and knew the infection wouldn't be gone today. Looks like around Monday. Un lucky you then with that amount of money you have too pay out. If that was me and I had no NI which pays for my dental care then I would get myself a bottle of whisky, drink it straight for 30 minutes then get a pair of plyers and pull them out myself, that's what they done in medieval times and without whisky!!
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Post by ukarchaeology on Nov 11, 2015 5:10:22 GMT -8
I suffered a lot of neglect when I was a kid (I tried to look after my teeth as best I could but quite often I didn't even have any access to toothpaste). However my diet was so low in sugar that even though I went without toothpaste for 2.5 years I didn't get a single cavity.
When I was 15 I had my first filling however it was then that it was discovered that I had an abnormally high natural resistance to anesthetic (even on 4 times the adult dose, the anesthetic still didn't work). I didn't know how important it was to floss my teeth (nobody told me) and over the years I had some more fillings (all but one of which are tiny and also invisible as I had white fillings done). However getting your teeth drilled when they are not feeling the effects of anesthetic at all was excruciatingly painful and combined with a very bad dentist (who did some shockingly poor work on my teeth), by age 20 I had developed quite a severe phobia of going to the dentist.
You can't go without seeing a dentist forever though and I didn't want to get bad teeth and so eventually I plucked up the courage to change dentist. And man what a difference did that make! I was very lucky really as during that time a super strength anesthetic had been developed for people with my anesthetic resistance problem and my new dentist was a very patient & compassionate dentist who quickly cured me of my phobia of going to the dentist (and he undid as much of the bad work that had been done on my teeth as possible etc). When one day I asked him about the condition of my teeth and he replied "You have perfect teeth", it seriously almost brought tears to my eyes...
Fast forward to the present day I would say that I look after my teeth very well (and haven't had any problems with my teeth for years). But i'm never going to get complacent about what I have (I've never had a tooth extracted and I want to keep it that way!) and lately over the last year I've been changing my diet a lot to help protect my teeth over the years to come (for example I now only put 1tsp of sugar in my tea/coffee instead of 2tsp's and I have also switched to sugar-free drinks and try to drink a lot more water over other drinks in general etc). My teeth aren't as white as I'd like them to be but I'm trying to quit smoking (I have cut down significantly over the course of this year so that I now only smoke about 4 rolly's a day) and when I do eventually manage to quite for good I'd like to reward myself by getting my teeth whitened ^_^v .
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Post by Shady on Nov 11, 2015 22:33:33 GMT -8
I really need to go to the dentist for a check up. I think I last went when my mum last arranged a family appointment when I was about 18, and I'm 29 now so that was a long time ago. I don't have phobia or anything, I just never got around to finding a dentist while I was at university, and then it's just not something I've thought about. I know that there are none locally accepting new patients anyway so I'd have to go to another town, which is inconvenient since I don't drive.
The thing is, I've never had any problems, so it's never seemed urgent. When I said I hadn't been for all that time, it's not entirely accurate since I went to the emergency dentist about 2 years ago when I got an infection due to a wisdom tooth growing at a funny angle. He said I'd have to have it out if I got recurrent infections, but it's been fine since. At the time I thought I should find somewhere to register, but since I've had no issues since I just haven't yet.
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Post by ukarchaeology on Nov 12, 2015 5:27:02 GMT -8
I think its important to go for a checkup every now and then because many dental problems can be detected by dentists long before they even show any noticeable symptoms (and obviously the sooner you get stuff treated the better). Many people suffer from gum disease without either realizing it or knowing how serious it is (not only is it bad for teeth but it can even prove lethal and its being increasingly linked to an array of cancers) while stuff like tartar will build up on most people's teeth over time regardless of how well they brush their teeth.
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