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Hey fit, in the past year I've had about $25,000 worth of dental work done, all covered for free by state insurance. I'm getting really fucking sick of this cycle. It's like this:
-tooth gets a cavity
-Cavity gets filling
- 5-10 years later the filling fails
-Root canal + cap for the tooth or pulling

Now I'm facing getting partial dentures, and I'm only 22 years old. I'm thinking, why the fuck just partial? Why am I saving this horrible genetic shitfest that are my teeth? Why not pull all the fuckers out and just go for full dentures?
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>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
That's funny. When I was a kid I would never brush my teeth. I'd do it like once a week, tops (disgusting, right? WRONG, FAGGOT). Here's the thing: your body has evolved ways of cleaning its own teeth. It doesn't actually need very much outside assistance. Just eating food cleans your teeth.

Nowadays I brush them maybe once a day if I'm going out. I'm 26 and I've never had a single cavity; my dentist says my teeth are incredibly healthy and they have some of the thickest enamel he's seen.
>> Anonymous
>>263287
That's called genetics. I've brushed daily for years and I use mouthwash and floss. My enamel is thin, my teeth are very frail. Oh, did I mention the TMJ? It at least seems to have stopped getting worse.
Actually, my teeth now are already on the same level of decay as my parent's teeth, but they're 30 years older than me.
>> Anonymous
>>263288
And it has nothing to do with the fact that you spent years and years abrading them every day ritualistically? Just think about it, we aren't biologically meant to brush our teeth like we do.
>> Anonymous
>>263289
And we weren't meant to eat processed food and refined sugars either. That, I've heard, is the major cause of tooth decay.
Honestly, I did try NOT brushing for a while but that was definitely not an improvement. If anything, I think I'm still paying for it.
>> Anonymous
>>263290
The sugars themselves are completely harmless, it's the acid produced by the bacteria that feed on the sugar residue in your mouth and on your teeth that causes the problems.
>> Anonymous
>>263291
Right, bacteria are the cause of plaque. But not brushing doesn't IMPROVE this condition, because it only allows the imbalance to worsen. Not eating processed foods might help, but that's a rather big difficult step I'm probably not going to take, and it's really not going to solve my problem anyway.
>> Anonymous
Just stop eating so much food with sugar, and if you do (fruits included) at least try to rinse your teeth with water.

If you don't eat sugar there won't really be problems. Even sucralose and aspartame are fine.
>> Anonymous
>>263303
I don't think I eat a diet much worse than the average person in sugar, and my diet isn't lacking nutrition. I mean, I know it might help to cut out sugar, but I don't believe it's the main cause of my problem.