Listen To Your Mom
Here’s some friendly advice.
If you fell on your face when you were eight years old, knocking out your two top front adult teeth (and the two baby teeth on either side), and after surgeries and root canals the best dentist-doctor in Connecticut tells you you’re teeth will likely fall out for good by the time your sixteen, and you’ve been lucky enough to keep them through until you’re 21, don’t stop going to the dentist for three years. I’m now 24, and it looks like they might be gone for good this year. Thank God for modern dentistry and the ability to put in fake teeth that aren’t dentures.
If you have huge fillings made of silver, and you’ve had them fore more than ten years, don’t stop going to the dentist for three years. Apparently, silver fillings expand as they get older, and they have to be replaced. Apparently if they get out of hand, you can fracture your tooth. Yes, that’s what happened to me.
If you have teeth, don’t stop going to the dentist for three years. Now that I’ve finally gone crawling back, as a delinquent, I will now be making the dentist my new best friend. I see her again tomorrow. And then to fix the fractured tooth soon after that. And then for some kind of fancy gum cleaning after that. And then maybe fore some more fixit work after that. And, depending on X-rays she took today, I may have to go back to get artificial front teeth. And somewhere in there I’ll go for a regular cleaning.
It’s a good thing she’s so nice. She really is, she explains everything if you want her to and shuts the fuck up if you tell her you’re afraid and would rather not know what she’s doing. She even gave me advice on where to go for massage therapy (apparently I keep my stress in my neck – isn’t that where everyone keeps it?).
I really hope those X-rays show my teeth really did make a miraculous recovery, and will just last forever. But I can tell you this – I am never going to skip my dentists checkups again.
well that’s the final nail in the coffin, better make an appt for the dentist. i kept seeing those commercials about “oral health is part of overall health” and i was like, gotta go, gotta go. and still haven’t made an appt. we even have dental insurance. i just hate getting my teeth cleaned! it’s the worst thing ever. i’ve even had my teeth filled without painkillers at all and i’d rather do that than get my teeth cleaned. but now i’m conviced, i’ve got to go and make an appt.