Why Don't People Floss Their Teeth and Go to the Dentist?

BayMoWe335 · 07-02-2016, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

Trust in your dentist is crucial. We've been to some quacks for sure. Find one you like and stick with him or her. I avoided dentists for years because my gums would always ache for days after a visit. Then I found my current dentist and have never had any lasting discomfort, yet my teeth and gums are in better shape than ever.

The hygienist is even more important than the dentist for the day to day stuff. If you have a good hygienist, cleanings will go great and will prevent any need for serious work.

BayMoWe335 · 07-02-2016, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by infamousdiz

I hate the dentist, pain in your mouth and in your wallet, no i dont need bite wing x-rays< i dont give a shit its covered because you say that then i get a bill for 175 dollars later.

Who grows up and says yea i wanna be a dentist, nothing but pain with a side of pain

Grives a BMW and complains about $175 bill. Dentists are pimp if you get the right one.

BayMoWe335 · 07-02-2016, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by gtron

First, I understand the value of hygiene and proper smelling breath and teeth.

Second, I would like to provide some perspective on lifestyles potentially outside of your view. Some people were born poor without insurance and never visited a dentist due to their parents not able to pay for even a simple cleaning. Others had to learn that going to a dentist is a normal thing and should be done on a regular basis. Others, potentially made something of themselves (director and above) but never understood the value of such things. Additionally, some cultures do not put the same emphasis on such things.

In short, not everybody was raised how you were nor perhaps were as privileged.

Again, I agree that it's important to maintain your grille but I do not judge others that do not know any better.

Haha, nice sob story but if they are at my company, they make plenty of money to take care of their grill and should develop new habits if their shitty ones don't have them going to the dentist regularly.

I know more about poor than you do, guaranteed. I've traveled extensively to poor countries, donated probably your yearly salary, and have very close ties with some of the poorest countries on Earth. Separate issue.

bodega_cat · 07-02-2016, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by BayMoWe335

I've traveled extensively to poor countries, donated probably your yearly salary, and have very close ties with some of the poorest countries on Earth.

Yep, you sure do know about poor....from the other side of the fence.

smoosh · 07-02-2016, 01:27 AM

My parents cheaped out when I was kid and never fixed my crooked ass teeth, which I now have to deal with/pay for.

Luckily, there's Invisalign (invisible braces)

But still, $7,500 for 70 pieces of plastic

RABAUKE · 07-02-2016, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Verbiage

Anybody here still got their wisdoms?

yup

RABAUKE · 07-02-2016, 07:46 AM

I brush and floss, but I hate the effin' dentist. I take a really long time to freeze and when I was a kid the dentist wouldn't listen to me to me and would do all the work with me unfrozen......then I'd leave and the freezing would set in making for hours of numb face following a very painful experience. Effin' idiot.

Verbiage · 07-02-2016, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by BayMoWe335

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Originally Posted by gtron

First, I understand the value of hygiene and proper smelling breath and teeth.

Second, I would like to provide some perspective on lifestyles potentially outside of your view. Some people were born poor without insurance and never visited a dentist due to their parents not able to pay for even a simple cleaning. Others had to learn that going to a dentist is a normal thing and should be done on a regular basis. Others, potentially made something of themselves (director and above) but never understood the value of such things. Additionally, some cultures do not put the same emphasis on such things.

In short, not everybody was raised how you were nor perhaps were as privileged.

Again, I agree that it's important to maintain your grille but I do not judge others that do not know any better.

Haha, nice sob story but if they are at my company, they make plenty of money to take care of their grill and should develop new habits if their shitty ones don't have them going to the dentist regularly.

I know more about poor than you do, guaranteed. I've traveled extensively to poor countries, donated probably your yearly salary, and have very close ties with some of the poorest countries on Earth. Separate issue.

Dude.

wrickem · 07-02-2016, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Verbiage

Anybody here still got their wisdoms?

I've still got one that is buried deep in my gums waiting for its opportunity to betray me at the worst possible time. It's behaved this long though, I hope my luck holds!

Verbiage · 07-02-2016, 08:47 AM

Yeah, I had all 4 of mine removed at once. Wasn't so bad.

Then again, I've got a high tolerance for stuff.

infamousdiz · 07-02-2016, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Verbiage

Anybody here still got their wisdoms?

yes, and i need them removed but absolute fear the procedure.

MKSixer · 07-02-2016, 08:59 AM

Still have all of mine.

I still have most of the parts that I'm supposed to except for a huge bone fragment removed from my nose to correct my deviated septum.

John 070 · 07-02-2016, 09:28 AM

haha OP probably did not grow up in Europe.

I don't floss daily, despite our dental hygienist telling us to do so. I asked her how many times she does daily, and she said 4-5. We did get the Oral B / Braun brushes and have used them more than a year, they are good. For some reason we are too lazy to setup the Water Pik which we also bought.

Flossing is definitely the right thing to do.

John 070 · 07-02-2016, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by smoosh

My parents cheaped out when I was kid and never fixed my crooked ass teeth, which I now have to deal with/pay for.

Luckily, there's Invisalign (invisible braces)

But still, $7,500 for 70 pieces of plastic

Wow, that's how much they cost, huh? I still remember, mine cost $1,650, and my parents paid over 24 mos., no interest, imagine that.

I was already in 9th grade so by the time I got them off I was 20. Back in the day all the dental assistants were hot, so I asked one out and she said yes. She was 23 and I was so into it, holy **** I got a date with a hot 23 yo.

It went well, so I asked her for another date, and she stood me up!! No sexting and cells back then. I was crushed and my 20 y.o. ball**' lifestyle came crashing down!

shoei · 07-02-2016, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by MKSixer

Still have all of mine.

I still have most of the parts that I'm supposed to except for a huge bone fragment removed from my nose to correct my deviated septum.

That's what all the girls say...

When they get rhinoplasty... They just blame the deviated septum...

MKSixer · 07-02-2016, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by shoei

That's what all the girls say...

When they get rhinoplasty... They just blame the deviated septum...

If only.

My surgery took 3 hrs and they called in another surgeon to assist.
Fuq'd up nose with strong bones = difficult surgery.

1MOREMOD · 07-02-2016, 05:11 PM

Because the dentist is the debil

wrickem · 07-02-2016, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by John 070

For some reason we are too lazy to setup the Water Pik which we also bought.

Flossing is definitely the right thing to do.

Set that Water Pik up today! I would marry mine if I could

, it makes your teeth, mouth and gums feel so clean healthy and fresh, like when you leave the dentist after a cleaning. I even bought a cordless one for travel. Brush, floss, Water Pik.

PINeely · 07-02-2016, 06:41 PM

The biggest contributing factor around here is lack of education. Maintaining healthy teeth isn't important to most rural people (it's expensive and tedious) so it's not emphasized in the culture. The other side of this is that they just don't know any better. Diet is a big part of it in adults but we see a lot of 2-4 year olds come in needing 16 crowns because the parents put them to bed with coke to drink, or even worse, milk, because nobody ever told them that was bad.

Lots of it is fear of the dentist too. I can't tell you how many people come in covered head to toe in tattoos but just about pass out when you try to give them a lidocaine injection. There's a guy who works for the CIA who used to come in and he'd be on the floor praying, panting, sweating and shit as soon as he saw the chair. I was like shit, if this guy ever gets captured all they have to do is say they're taking him to the dentist and he'll tell them everything. I never understood why dentists are so thoroughly feared but it is a VERY common phobia to have.

bosstones · 07-03-2016, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by PINeely

The biggest contributing factor around here is lack of education. Maintaining healthy teeth isn't important to most rural people (it's expensive and tedious) so it's not emphasized in the culture. The other side of this is that they just don't know any better. Diet is a big part of it in adults but we see a lot of 2-4 year olds come in needing 16 crowns because the parents put them to bed with coke to drink, or even worse, milk, because nobody ever told them that was bad.

Lots of it is fear of the dentist too. I can't tell you how many people come in covered head to toe in tattoos but just about pass out when you try to give them a lidocaine injection. There's a guy who works for the CIA who used to come in and he'd be on the floor praying, panting, sweating and shit as soon as he saw the chair. I was like shit, if this guy ever gets captured all they have to do is say they're taking him to the dentist and he'll tell them everything. I never understood why dentists are so thoroughly feared but it is a VERY common phobia to have.

Probably bad experiences w/ dentists before that stuck with him for life. In grade/middle school, I had a several of bad experiences w/ the family dentist regarding tooth extractions and bite correction. I went from wanting to be a dentist to dreading them ever since.

shoei · 07-03-2016, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by bosstones

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Originally Posted by PINeely

The biggest contributing factor around here is lack of education. Maintaining healthy teeth isn't important to most rural people (it's expensive and tedious) so it's not emphasized in the culture. The other side of this is that they just don't know any better. Diet is a big part of it in adults but we see a lot of 2-4 year olds come in needing 16 crowns because the parents put them to bed with coke to drink, or even worse, milk, because nobody ever told them that was bad.

Lots of it is fear of the dentist too. I can't tell you how many people come in covered head to toe in tattoos but just about pass out when you try to give them a lidocaine injection. There's a guy who works for the CIA who used to come in and he'd be on the floor praying, panting, sweating and shit as soon as he saw the chair. I was like shit, if this guy ever gets captured all they have to do is say they're taking him to the dentist and he'll tell them everything. I never understood why dentists are so thoroughly feared but it is a VERY common phobia to have.

Probably bad experiences w/ dentists before that stuck with him for life. In grade/middle school, I had a several of bad experiences w/ the family dentist regarding tooth extractions and bite correction. I went from wanting to be a dentist to dreading them ever since.

This... As a kid, you fear the dentist... The sound of the drills, the poking and the prodding, the cavities, the pulling of wisdom teeth etc... Then you have your pediatrician, who's almost required to be the most gentle soul ever... And one who hands you a lollipop as you leave... Grape please... So we grow up thinking of the dentist as the boogeyman or Ramsay Bolton...

I've never had a cavity, I floss frequently, I water pik every night I'm at home, I brush at least 3-4 times a day, no fillings, no issues, and I still dread having to go see the dentist... I have a couple of friends who are dentists and my usual greeting for them is how many children did they traumatized / make cry today?

NY10 · 07-03-2016, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Verbiage

Anybody here still got their wisdoms?

Yes. I'm 29 and they never caused a problem.

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John 070 Lieutenant General 1724 Rep 14,825 Posts Drives: 335i cpe Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: ZSP/ZPP/ZCW iTrader: (0)	haha OP probably did not grow up in Europe. I don't floss daily, despite our dental hygienist telling us to do so. I asked her how many times she does daily, and she said 4-5. We did get the Oral B / Braun brushes and have used them more than a year, they are good. For some reason we are too lazy to setup the Water Pik which we also bought. Flossing is definitely the right thing to do.
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PINeely Lieutenant Colonel 1078 Rep 1,912 Posts Drives: 2013 535i, 2015 Tundra 1794 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Jackson, MS iTrader: (2)	The biggest contributing factor around here is lack of education. Maintaining healthy teeth isn't important to most rural people (it's expensive and tedious) so it's not emphasized in the culture. The other side of this is that they just don't know any better. Diet is a big part of it in adults but we see a lot of 2-4 year olds come in needing 16 crowns because the parents put them to bed with coke to drink, or even worse, milk, because nobody ever told them that was bad. Lots of it is fear of the dentist too. I can't tell you how many people come in covered head to toe in tattoos but just about pass out when you try to give them a lidocaine injection. There's a guy who works for the CIA who used to come in and he'd be on the floor praying, panting, sweating and shit as soon as he saw the chair. I was like shit, if this guy ever gets captured all they have to do is say they're taking him to the dentist and he'll tell them everything. I never understood why dentists are so thoroughly feared but it is a VERY common phobia to have.
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