I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Different Diagnosis

Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by gcanyon on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:45PM (#37029832)

I was probably four when I fell against the sandbox in the playground and knocked one of my top front teeth right out. I carried it inside to the teacher, who had me bite on a paper towel to stop the bleeding and sent me home with the tooth wrapped in another paper towel in my pocket.

About a week later I fell against a large wooden block in the classroom and knocked the other top front tooth clean out.

I went for something over a year without top front teeth, but my adult teeth came in early, so it wasn't 2 or 3 years like it might have been.

This was a long time ago, and I still have both the adult teeth, although one of them died when I got hit in the face with a football in the third grade.

All to say that n=1 but it likely wouldn't have been the worst thing if the two teeth had come out.

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Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by guythedudebro on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:23AM (#37030879)

You need a mouth guard

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Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by gcanyon on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:56PM (#37039016)

It was worse than that -- the football thing happened when I had old-school braces, and my lips were literally smashed onto the railroad tracks, so much so that I had to walk to the drinking fountain and pry/peel my lips off the braces, with an accompanying rush of blood. Good times!

I'm a grown-ass adult now, and I haven't had issues like this since my late teens.

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Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by sensanaty on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:48AM (#37046617)

My friend it seems to me like you should be wearing mouthguards more often, with how often you seem to get your front teeth hit somehow!

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