helderheid
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:18 PM
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How scared should I be now that we find out my hubby has periodontitis? |
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:19 PM
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It's nasty, but with good care, he will be ok. let me do some research for you...see u in a bit. :hug:
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:21 PM
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2. Thanks! The dentist assistant actually told him that depending on how much stuff they clean up his |
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teeth may fall out! This after he said his teeth weren't loose. :scared:
Oh and not to mention what this bill will look like!!
:wow:
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:23 PM
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:27 PM
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4. Thanks - I hope this will finally get him to stop smoking! I quit 7.5 years ago. |
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Of course lack of flossing and not seeing a dentist in over a decade didn't help. I finally made this appointment for him. How slow am I to figure out I am the one that needs to make the appointments for him?? :)
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:40 PM
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Edited on Fri Jun-29-07 09:42 PM by philboy
thinking about quitting. Have seen a dentist every 6 months all my life. I therefore have lovely teeth. I think I posted this before...Grateful Dead concert....1987...Philly....slipped and did a swan dive while dancing.....really bad result on my teeth. Knocked some out. Ended up in hotel in Allentown....asked the guy how much for one night...he said $200...I said thru my broken teeth.. .You gotta be Tithin' me....you futhin tithin' me?
At first he said he didn't have any rooms, and I said the same thing.
Called my dentist from Allentown friday night...he took me in on Saturday.
he said...Jesus christ...did you have a good time last night? I said "Yeth"..
sorry...I'm having a few drinks....
your husband will be fine...make sure you aggressively pursue his care.
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:43 PM
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:rofl: That's hilarious! :D
Thanks for the advice - believe me - he won't miss a cleaning from now on and floss will be his friend!!
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:45 PM
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7. Go to your local grocery store... |
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get an oral B electric toothbrush with a ROUND head. I use it, they are brilliant. My hygenist tells me she hardly gets anything off my teeth when she cleans them.
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:46 PM
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8. waaaay ahead of ya! :D |
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:48 PM
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9. dancing makes my teeth fall out. n/t |
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Fri Jun-29-07 10:12 PM
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Fri Jun-29-07 10:17 PM
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12. yes, i fell and knocked my teeth out when i was dancing... |
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probably because I was exchanging flirts with the female usher and lost my mojo.
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Fri Jun-29-07 10:33 PM
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13. I am so fucking slow. :) Hubby lost his 2 front teeth as a drunken Dutch youth riding his bike into |
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Fri Jun-29-07 09:49 PM
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10. Get a second opinion from someone not associated at all with this dentist |
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Edited on Fri Jun-29-07 09:52 PM by barb162
I was told I had it and went for another two opinions. Both opinions were I didn't have a trace of it. Dentists make a lot of money from treating it and sometimes have been known to tell people they have it when they don't. I never went back to my original dentist again, who I had been seeing for eight years. When I got home from that first dentist I looked it up and didn't have any of the signs, like red gums, etc. That's why I went for the second opinions.
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