rhonnin wrote:I didn't get my first filling until I was 43.
my mouth has been a mess since i was little. my mouth looked like a shark's i had 14 teeth pulled and they wanted all my wisdom and a few others pulled as well. i didnt have wisdom or the last ones pulled simply because i couldnt take it anymore. the Novocain and shit was not working anymore. i was at the point where i needed to get put under in order to not feel them work, and in the last session i woke up in the middle. i was 14 getting an adult's dosage and they couldnt give me any more so i had to lay there and deal with it.
so one of my molars is crooked and it leaves a small patch where food can get stuck, and no matter how much i floss i couldnt get it all. 24 years with a tooth like that isnt bad i think, and the dentist too. the tooth had a slight cavity and had chipped itself because of the pressure of the wisdom tooth pushing it into the next tooth. needless to say, during the drilling for filling the meds wore off at the end.... not pleasant feeling.