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Dental Hygiene
jmrz:
I had braces on my top teeth for about nine months just to straighten them out and push my vampire teeth back a bit. Now I have a wire retainer thinger stuck behind my top teeth to make sure they don't move back. I had my wisdom teeth out January 9th 2006 because if I didn't then there wouldn't have been enough room in my mouth for them and the bottom one would have only half come through and the top two would have messed up the braces work. Yes, I only ever had three wisdom teeth, my Mum only had three as well, and in the same spots.
I brush twice a day, three times if I am going out somewhere, but generally, just morning and before I go to bed. I don't floss unless I get something stuck in between my teeth and can't get it out with a toothbrush. Like Lunchy mentioned, the wire retainer isn't really all that cooperative with floss anyway. I think I need to get my orthodontist to put some more glue on my wire because there is a part where food gets stuck and it is really annoying.
Aside from that, I don't drink soft/fizzy/carbonated/full of sugar drinks and I don't eat a lot of junky food that ruins your teeth. My dentist was utterly surprised at this, but it means that I have really nice teeth.
jhocking:
I've been trying to get better about oral hygiene, mostly because my fiancee tells me my breath gets pretty stinky. But I keep forgetting to floss!
I had braces for a super long time, because I first got them on when living in Egypt and that dentist used ancient techniques, and when I moved to the States my new dentist decided to just start over rather than finish what the other guy started. I used to have a really fucked up tooth that was coming out sideways, but that was eventually fixed through the expedient of pulling out other teeth in order to make room. Now my upper teeth look great, but the front teeth on my lower jaw are still twisted at a freaky angle.
I do have a funny story from when I got my teeth extracted. For reasons that are beyond me, I chose to go to waterpolo practice after my dentist appointment, and I nearly drowned because my mouth was still numb from the local anesthetic and couldn't close.
captain zoe:
I usually brush twice daily but sometimes I get lazy. I am also lazy about going to the dentist, and I haven't in a long time, but I so far only have 1 filling. The problem with my teeth is that they are in the wrong places because when they came in there was too little room for them so a lot of them are squished together or facing backwards, shit like that. It sucks. This is why I do not floss as usually I can't get the freaking floss to fit in there. My two front teeth are generally much larger than they need to be but I'm pretty much stuck with that. One of them is half-fake because I got kicked in the face at age 8 and had one of them broken in half. You can't tell though unless the real part gets super white. I need to get several teeth pulled and probably get braces, but I am continually too lazy to do anything about it even though I hate it. Plus I loathe the dentist (the cleaning stuff makes me gag yuck), and it's bloody expensive, and so I'm sure that has something to do with it...but apart from looking totally weird they're generally healthy and white. Woot!
Blue Kitty:
I have way too many fillings for someone my age. Hell, the back of my jaw line is mostly filled in with fillings.
I usually brush twice a day, unless I don't do anything at all (these are days I don't even change out of my pajamas). These days are rare since I really don't want any more fillings, so even if I am not doing anything I take the time to brush my teeth. Also, when I brush I clean my night brace, so it is extra incentive I guess.
I use mouth wash on rare occasions, mostly special events or days that I feel my mouth is really nasty. Unfortunately not a big fan of flossing, even though my dentist says that I need to do it more
frunK:
possibly once a week
also I was my mouth with salt water to give the bacteria that extra what-for.
fuck listerine, salt water is where it's at.
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