How are your teeth?

[Sweet72947]

I have decent teeth, I just need to take care of them a little better.

I have had about four fillings I think. I also had an expander (this is glued to the teeth on the top of your mouth and turned with a 'key' every day to expand the width of your mouth with the eventual goal of breaking your pallet. ouch.) I had braces, I had three oral surgeries, and a kid once threw a swing at my face on the playground and chipped my front tooth (this was eventually fixed in one of the oral surgeries). The first oral surgery was just to pull some teeth in order to straighten my mouth out ( I guess they decided it was easier to knock an eight year old out to pull the teeth than the regular way). The second was to attach these metal things to my eye teeth inside my face (because they refused to come out on their own) and the metal things were hooked to these braces in the back of my mouth. They were adjusted appropriately by the orthadonist during regular visits. Ouch again.

The third surgery was just to remove my wisdom teeth. That was relatively easy.

 

[Fran101]

I had braces, weren't that bad. I wear a retainer now and I signed up for laser whitening treatments, not for any real reason.. Just because I thought it would be cool to have them a couple of shades whiter

I was a dental NIGHTMARE before braces...

 

[Dakotah]

I have had braces for 7 years at the end of this month because my teeth were TERRIBLE. All my baby teeth didn't come out til I was 12, I had 2 adult teeth pretty much grow under my tongue, some teeth were growing outwards from my gums, etc etc.
Now I'm getting my wisdom teeth removed in less than 2 weeks and HOPEFULLY that'll speed up the process of getting these damned braces off. I HATE them. lol
Then I should have healthy, white, pretty teeth.

 

[chanda]

yep... im wearing braces right now to fix some minor mis alignment of my teeth...

 

[elegy]

my teeth are awful. i had braces for three years when i was a kid, and i have a whole slew of fillings and need a whole slew more *sigh* i have veneers on my two front teeth and for whatever reason have gotten cavities on most of my front top teeth, which i'm in the midst of the process of getting fixed (at $115 a pop with no dental insurance. whee.)

and on top of it all, i'm hugely dental phobic. i really really like my current dentist, so of course he's going to be out for shoulder surgery plus he's really popular and hard to get in with, and they're trying to foist me off onto somebody else at the same practice. ugh.

 

[Sada]

I had braces for 3 years starting when I was in 4th grade. At the same time, I had 8 teeth pulled (4 adult, 4 baby), because my mouth is too small.

I had my wisdom teeth cut out because they never came through.

No cavities.