Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim

Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by creep on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:51PM (#17095619)

Do you know anything else about teeth? I have 2 baby teeth with no adult teeth to replace them, and I was also born without 4 back molars (one on each side, top and bottom). Consequently, now that my wisdom teeth are coming in, I seem to have lots of room and may not need to have them removed.

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by nate_meurer on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:53PM (#17097715)

I highly recommend keeping your wisdom teeth if you have room for them. I have all four -- a full rack as my dentist says -- and they're nice to have; I chew pretty far back in my mouth so they get lots of use. Cleaning them hasn't been a problem so far. I'm 42 years old.

Like you, I also had a baby tooth that didn't fall out. It was anchored to the bone somehow. It interfered with the movement of my adult teeth as they came in and thus had to be removed in my teens. It was a pain to get out. It had to be broken into pieces and dug out, and since there was no adult tooth to replace it, they put in an implant, which has also worked just fine.

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by creep on Thursday May 17, 2018 @09:30PM (#17097942)

My baby teeth are anchored to the bone as well, but not very strongly. They discovered them when fitting me for braces and decided they would just leave them. They didn't put anchors on the babies and just told me to pray they wouldn't fall out and they haven't!

I will probably keep my wisdom teeth. They're not fully in yet but I like the idea of not pulling anything out of my face, you know?

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by andrepd on Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:57PM (#17096365)

I suggest seeing a doctor rather than ask diagnoses to strangers on the internet :)

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by nate_meurer on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:54PM (#17097719)

There's absolutely nothing wrong with asking for peoples' thoughts on a discussion forum that's built for, you know, discussion.

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Re:Our relationship with teeth is uneven, messy and grim by creep on Thursday May 17, 2018 @06:06PM (#17096465)

A doctor was how I found out about these things. They don't know why. Anyways, nothing is particularly concerning me, I'm just curious.

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