An English teeth thread....cue the avalanche of jokes!
As a previous NHS dentist victim, I have suffered untold torture at the hands of Americans. However, most of my dental problems have come from the elbows of cunts on the football field! Once while playing for Leeds against Wigan, another while playing in the States! Needless to say, as one hits a half century, all that work comes home to roost and have spent the last year doing some serious dental work while I have decent insurance and can afford the copays! Implant in the front, because like the OP, not much to work with! That required four months of drilling out the shit bone, replacing it with some kind of material that grows into new bone. Basically placing a drywall screw receiver into the bone, and screwing in a dummy implant while it all sets and settles for another four months, then a temporary implant, and after Christmas the real McCoy! Meanwhile, I also had to have an unrelated root canal over a cracked back tooth and then a crown on that, with a few more crowns to come. Last time I was there, the dentist showed me another tooth she is keeping an eye on, because she said the filling looks like it is a filling on a filling on a filling and the previous dentists had just been “sparkling over the problem as the tooth was basically a crater they just kept filling in to try to save it. She was surprised it hadn’t cracked from being so hollowed out!
Anyway, all I can say is that the years of hard sugar sweets, Coca Cola, and wine gums & sports mixture (required while at the match!) have left their mark, plus the pathetic cleaning job I have apparently been doing in the interim were....well, pathetically inadequate....and I have become a zealot about dental hygiene with my kids and now myself! Sensodyne toothpaste, regular new soft toothbrushes, Listerine, Waterpik, floss and regular check ups!!! Wife (Yank) has, and always has had, perfect teeth!
Don’t like the sound of the dry hole in the OP, so I hope it all goes well, Nimrod! Tooth problems fucking suck!!!
