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[calenlass]

Oh man I have dreams all the time that my teeth are like cracking and falling right out of my mouth. They always freak me the fuck out.

[Spinless]

Yeah, they're really weird. Your teeth sometimes don't feel real when you wake up, which makes you freak out even more!

[0bsessions]

That's actually more related to anxiety than self esteem, actually. My old therapist explained it to me a few years ago when I had a "my teeth cracked up and fell out" dream. It freaked the shit out of me.

[Stryc9Fuego]

I'm surprised all this talk about teeth hasn't made anyone bring up Teeth.

[Spinless]

That's because a movie about vagina dentata has no place in the discussion.

[Stryc9Fuego]

So you wouldn't be interested in the care that would go into... those teeth? I'd imagine that brushing and flossing would be very difficult.

[Alex C]

Not really. The idea of the kind of commercials that would go along with an Oral-B branded home speculum provided a brief moment of mild amusement, but other than that it hits me as a fairly dull topic.

[E. Spaceman]

I broke a tooth while eating popcorn a couple days ago and i just got back from the dentist. Apparently something had lodged in there a looong time ago and it actually caused an abces, which prceeded to hollow out the tooth until it broke. He was really surprised though, because a dental abcess would have defintely been noticed by the huge amount of pain it causes.

[ThePQ4]

...Weird.

After I hard my teeth pulled, and my braces, the teeth under the ones I had pulled proceeded to grow, so I literally had a tooth pushing out on a a straightened tooth. Well, one day I was in the cafateria at school eating a bag of potato chips. Well, as I was biting on one of these chips, it proceeded to CRACK MY TOOTH IN HALF. Only half of the tooth actually came out. The other half STAYED IN MY HEAD for like six months before I could finally pull it out all of the way. It was pretty crazy. I'm not one of those people that can just yank a tooth out when it's loose, I have to gradually loosen it... Hence why it took so long.

But yeah, it was pretty crazy. People thought it was hilarious that I had half a tooth with another growing in underneath it. It's part of why, even though I had braces, my teeth are still so messed up.

Right now, I had a tooth were they put in a preventive-like filling in...well, the filling popped out, and I haven't gone to have it refilled or anything (it's not like I have a cavity and it hurts or anything...), so I have big hole in one of my molars. It's kind of annoying. I bought dentist-like picks to keep gunk out of it. THey're kinda cool.

[Jimmy the Squid]

When I was in primary school one of my teeth didn't fall out like it was meant to so the new tooth just grew into it and hollowed the old tooth out. It wasn't painful but the tooth had a huge red crack in it and went a nasty dark grey. Eventually the "cap" of old tooth just slipped off and there was the shiny, healthy new tooth under it. It was pretty gross.

[Boro_Bandito]

but awesome and legendary among other elementary school students, no?

[Elizzybeth]

When I got braces put on when I was twelve, I had to have four baby teeth pulled.  All four teeth had sizeable roots; one was a full inch long.  Thus, when they came out, the four holes in my gums all bled profusely.  Unfortunately, it was during the year that my mother had lost her driver's license.  So I had to walk a mile home with my mouth full of bloody gauze that, halfway through the walk, became completely saturated and started dripping blood on the pavement and my clothing.

Hygiene-wise, though I've always been pretty solidly in the brushing-one-to-three-times-a-day-and-flossing-occasionally camp.  Luckily, for me, that's been enough to keep me from ever having had any major non-orthodontal dental work done.

[Cartilage Head]

Oh man I have dreams all the time that my teeth are like cracking and falling right out of my mouth. They always freak me the fuck out.

 That is too weird, I have those same dreams all the time. Ever since I broke a tooth about five years ago. Because of my fear of losing more teeth I am a huge stickler about keeping them clean.

[Scarychips]

One of my front tooth was actually blue before it came out. It was pretty cool though.
I wash and brush my teeth every Morning but I don't floss, I always lose it, that's why I had a cavity between two teeth. I have 3 or 4 fillings which, for my age, is a lot. But now they're healthy and I'm happy with them.
And I also need braces.

[ruyi]

[Johnny C]

Ruyi brings strong sack to the thread by challenging us to have better teeth.

I decline the challenge because I am a giant yellow-toothed baby.

[Des_2008]

Oh man I have dreams all the time that my teeth are like cracking and falling right out of my mouth. They always freak me the fuck out.

I've had a dream like that, ewww! My mouth was bleeding and my teeth just fell out! Gross!

My teeth aren't too bad. I brush about twice a day, and I use mouthwash. I don't floss because half my teeth push against each other and I can't reach between them I need braces. And I have a filling in my molar.

[monkandmovies13]

I have braces and will for another like 6 months

They are teh suxorz

[Faker]

I have, *quickly runs tongue around teeth*, 3 filings, all of which I got before the age of 15, and all  are thankfully in the teeth in the top set so are out of sight.

I had braces when I was younger, again on the top set of teeth, for which I had two teeth removed in order to free up space for the rest to be moved back.

I got my wisdom teeth but they were coming in at an angle and so had to be surgically removed, yep as in scalpel to the gums so that the dentist could get them out, a deeply unpleasant experience which left blood periodically coating the inside of my mouth for just over a week.

In terms of a dental hygiene routine. I brush my teeth twice a day, morning and night, and always follow that with mouth wash, I will occasionally brush during the day as well, and always before going out somewhere. I never floss, as it doesn’t fit between my teeth and can be quite painful.

[Ozymandias]

Don't most people have their wisdom teeth surgically removed?

I did.

It was fun. I'm not being sarcastic.

[Faker]

I thought standard procedure was to have them pulled like a normal tooth i.e. no scalpels. Maybe I'm wrong.

Why must I always be wrong

[0bsessions]

As far as I know, standard procedure is standard pulling, but I'm far from the authority. My wisdom teeth came in so well, they actually only impacted just barely enough to further straighten my teeth, closing in a gap in my front teeth.

[pen]

I got all four of mine taken out at once.  Don't really know how they did it, but I got put under for it.

[blaha 41]

brush morning and before bed. floss before bed. and mouthwash a few times a week. i need to get back in the habit.

no dental insurance so no dentist for me in years now . i have to make friends with the one on the corner here. maybe i can trade him something for a cleaning?

[Slick]

I had four wisdom teeth out in one go, and I was under on something good. They stuck an IV in my hand, and put me right out. The removal actually involved the use of a chisel at one point on my gnarly roots!
When I woke up, I felt great, and was quoting Shakespeare in the recovery room as they changed the bloody wads of gauze in my mouth. Then there were three days of feeling like absolute shit. Followed with a week of discomfort.

[Johnny C]

I walked to my car after I got my wisdom teeth out, but I genuinely don't recall it at all. In fact I was apparently still watching stuff for an hour.

[BrittanyMarie]

Hey, they had to use a chisel on me too! Something about the root being connected to the bone or something, I don't remember.

I do remember the laughing gas they put me on before they put in the IV. Oh man that was fun. My hand fell off the chair and I just sat and laughed, and the last thing I remember before conking out was I swear to God they were playing Dr. Funkenstein! Or maybe it was just that I was incredibly high I imagined something totally awesome. When I woke up though I got really mad at the nurses because I wanted my hoodie, and texted some boy and spelled surgery wrong.

I have brownish/super ridiculously white teeth because I had extra fluoride in my water growing up. Thus, I have never had any cavities. My teeth look stupid though because they are like the only things I inherited from my indigenous ancestry; they're tiny. 

[Darkbluerabbit]

I am pretty jealous of you guys who had fun highs when you got your wisdom teeth out.  I pretty much just got tired and fell asleep.  The last thing I remember was the guy telling me "Oh, and by the way, some shards of tooth might come out of your gums back there for a while.  Don't worry, it's normal."  Then I conked out, and they broke my teeth with a chisel and pulled out the bits.  Then I got some hydrocodone, which is a crappy painkiller that just made me feel like I had a hangover.  They also hurt my jaw and for a few weeks I couldn't open my mouth wide enough to eat a sandwich.  All in all, not a great experience.  I have some amusing pictures of my chipmunk face somewhere though. 

[Lunchbox]

Guys. I just brushed my teeth and it felt really good.

[pen]

I've been flossing lately!  By lately, I mean the past 2 days.  I kinda have to, though.  It's part of a new teeth-whitening kit that I got.