Tostitos = Home Dentistry

[Freeky]

So I had a molar pulled two months ago. It was a hellish ordeal for me because I metabolize the anisthetic quickly. And it makes me shake a lot, so I can't sit still. But anyway. When my dentist considered himself finished, I heard him say to the nurse "There's still a piece in there." Well, I wasn't going to do anything about it, they had to cut the bitch out while the numbness wore off and stabbed me in the cheek besides, so I was done with dentists for a while.

Today, I had half a big bag of Tostito chips, and just now I pulled a big piece of tooth out of my gums. I'm kind of relived, because I was worried that I'd have to go back to get it taken care of, and I already owe them money.

[Freeky]

Edit: To fill in the gaping holes of reason here, I was associating the sharp pokey bits with stimulation, which made the tooth bit come to the surface. I always seem to leave out about fifty percent of the important information...

[The Johnny]

Right now Im eating tostitos with cheese-jalapeño.

No teeths have fallen off yet.

[Freeky]

Right now Im eating tostitos with cheese-jalapeño.

No teeths have fallen off yet.

Well, mine was one that was mostly gone BEFORE it got pulled, and when it was pulled it left some behind. And its infected as hell.

[The Johnny]

Everytime ive gotten a tooth pulled (all of my wisdom teeth last year, im only 23, but its pre-braces procedure), i took i think 5 days of anti-bios and i was fine on every case, except for one that some food got stuck underneath the healing, which involved cutting open and retrieving it.

You can die from that kind of infection.

[Freeky]

Everytime ive gotten a tooth pulled (all of my wisdom teeth last year, im only 23, but its pre-braces procedure), i took i think 5 days of anti-bios and i was fine on every case, except for one that some food got stuck underneath the healing, which involved cutting open and retrieving it.

You can die from that kind of infection.

...While that is certainly what I might have, I don't think so because the gums are only red and irritated where the tooth bit came up at, right next to my very back molar.

I still have to get my wisdom teeth removed, there's no room on the bottom for them to come in at all.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I'm 33 and haven't seen any signs of wisdom tooth growing in-ness in my face hole.

What's the deal

[Jasper]

How big of a piece was it?  I'm curious.

[Freeky]

Half a centimeter long exactly (about a quarter inch) and only a little smaller than that at its widest point.

[Jasper]

That's fairly huge.  I had a tiny tiny piece of tooth fall off a molar once and it was so sharp and it felt like half the tooth was missing.  I had never experienced that before, so it was very distracting.

Odd that the dentist just left it there though. 

[Freeky]

I had hysterics when the SECOND set of shots wore off while they were still trying to pull the bitch out. That's probably why.

[Jasper]

Needle fear, eh?  Don't sweat, it'll probably serve you well in the long run.  Never bothered me though, even though it kinda does hurt.  Mostly I get kind of mystified at how cool it is that we can do that stuff, then I start thinking about how our skin is semi-permeable, and what that implies about our relation with our environment, and how that translates into a false sense of self, and then suddenly I have to get out of the chair and I lose my train of thought.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm 33 and haven't seen any signs of wisdom tooth growing in-ness in my face hole.

What's the deal

Not everyone gets them. Apparently some people are more evolved than others, you advanced motherfucker.

[Freeky]

Needle fear, eh?  Don't sweat, it'll probably serve you well in the long run.  Never bothered me though, even though it kinda does hurt.  Mostly I get kind of mystified at how cool it is that we can do that stuff, then I start thinking about how our skin is semi-permeable, and what that implies about our relation with our environment, and how that translates into a false sense of self, and then suddenly I have to get out of the chair and I lose my train of thought.

Needle fear, yes, but it wa smore than that. Him wiggling the damn thing back and forth hurt like a son of a bitch, and it didn't help that AT THAT VERY MOMENT when the numbness wore off, he stabbe me in the cheeck with one of those screwdriver-plier-thinguses. I was having a Bad Day.

[Jasper]

Yikes, what a butcher.