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25-05-2018, 03:02 PM
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My teeth are in the best shape they have been in for years. It's probably 10 years since I had a filling.
I didn't look after them as a child though and have many fillings at the back and they are not especially brilliant white. I have a crown in the top middle too which is not as white as the rest. Someday I will get them all sorted to look really nice, if money permits
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25-05-2018, 05:09 PM
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I have my check up every six months, our present dentist is very pleasant. The dentist I had as a child was a sadistic monster who enjoyed inflicting pain. When I had two wisdom teeth taken out at the age of ten, I looked like road kill after he had finished. My mother sacked him.
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25-05-2018, 05:11 PM
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Most people don't have wisdom teeth until they are in their late teens.
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25-05-2018, 05:53 PM
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I.m petrified of the dentist due to a terrible experience when I lived in Spain but I still go as toothache is awful. I have the hygienist work twice a year as well as normal dentistry. My teeth are in fairly good shape, while I had a few fillings as a child I haven't needed any as an adult. I don't know if that's down to the fact I don't eat sweet stuff or take sugar? Bad teeth look awful but some people just have such a fear of dentists they just can't face their fear. I.m a quivering wreck in the dentist chair but I think I am getting better. Oh, I once remember having a filling as a teenager and they injected the roof of my mouth, jesus, Joseph and Mary, that bloody well hurt, I thought my skull was gonna explode. Urgh awful memory.
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25-05-2018, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy ->
Most people don't have wisdom teeth until they are in their late teens.

I agree, practically impossible.
Apparently some people mistake their second molars for wisdom teeth.

If they are impacted, like mine were, they are usually a great deal later than teens before they come through even.
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25-05-2018, 06:33 PM
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Most people don't have wisdom teeth until they are in their late teens.
I had mine early, I had all my second teeth by the time I was eight.
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25-05-2018, 06:42 PM
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I had mine early, I had all my second teeth by the time I was eight.
Wisdom teeth come between the ages of 17 & 25
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25-05-2018, 06:43 PM
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Wisdom teeth come between the ages of 17 & 25
As I said mine came early, unusual but not unheard of.
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25-05-2018, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Lion Queen ->
I.m petrified of the dentist due to a terrible experience when I lived in Spain but I still go as toothache is awful. I have the hygienist work twice a year as well as normal dentistry. My teeth are in fairly good shape, while I had a few fillings as a child I haven't needed any as an adult. I don't know if that's down to the fact I don't eat sweet stuff or take sugar? Bad teeth look awful but some people just have such a fear of dentists they just can't face their fear. I.m a quivering wreck in the dentist chair but I think I am getting better. Oh, I once remember having a filling as a teenager and they injected the roof of my mouth, jesus, Joseph and Mary, that bloody well hurt, I thought my skull was gonna explode. Urgh awful memory.
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As we get older the enamel hardens so we hopefully don't have the same cavities as we did when we were children.
Dentists have come a long way needles are so fine they are practically painless and the dentist can rub a numbing agent on the gums first .
As a child I too was petrified and with good reason!
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When my father was a kid in the 20s/30s, the pharmacist would pull out a decaying tooth with a pair of pliers.
 
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