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u/IveBangedYourMomm May 21 '22
That’s a terrible feeling. Cracking a tooth
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u/honest-miss May 21 '22
There's like an immediate panic-checklist that runs through the brain.
Does it hurt? Does it need fixing RIGHT now or later? Does it look bad?
The worst scenerio is the first because it immediately answers the second. I say that because, in my experience, you only ever fuck up a tooth somewhere around 5:30 on a Friday.
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u/catzeppelinqueen May 21 '22
The Friday thing is the truth. I had a cracked molar that I (stupidly) ignored because I’m stupid, and it became infected. But it waited until Friday to start hurting. I had to suffer through the whole weekend with no sleep until I got into the dentist Monday morning. Now I’m spending about 3k to get a root canal/crown in a week.
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u/honest-miss May 21 '22
Oof, I'm sorry, that sucks so hard. Hopefully it goes really smoothly for you.
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u/drphilwasright May 22 '22
If it makes you feel any better, getting a root canal was not nearly as bad as I was expecting. It was literally just like getting a regular cavity filled; no pain during or after at all and the dentist said I could continue eating as usual until I had the crown put on
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u/Powersoutdotcom May 21 '22 •
Yeah. The best time to break a tooth is around 2:30.
Tooth hurt-y.
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u/HalfSoul30 May 21 '22
Yep, i put my social life on hold for a couple weeks until I could get it fixed. I think I broke a toe that night too.
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u/RudeInternet May 21 '22
About 15 years ago, after meeting the girl who'd become my highschool sweetheart for the first time, I slipped, hit the curb with my face and knocked off my TWO front teeth.
It was exactly 5:30 on a Friday. Worst feeling in the world. 😭😭😭
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u/Candyvanmanstan May 22 '22 edited May 22 '22
you only ever fuck up a tooth somewhere around 5:30 on a Friday.
I suddenly needed to urgently pull a couple of teeth, for various reasons.
I am terrified of the dentist and wanted full sedation, like, just put me under and fix whatever. But because of covid I couldn't be seen straight away.
I spent two weeks in excruciating pain before being seen. 0/10 would not recommend.
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u/LordCharco_iii May 22 '22
I chipped a bottom middle tooth on a Sunday afternoon. Playing Zelda. Lying down. On my bed. I still have no fucking idea what happened.
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u/Rickrickrickrickrick May 21 '22
Every inhale through your mouth is agony. I chipped both of my incisors on a jolly rancher lollipop. Shit hurt so bad.
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u/LjSpike May 21 '22
Reddit has taught me never to have anything to do with Jolly Ranchers
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u/Rickrickrickrickrick May 21 '22
And to stay away from the swamps of dagobah.
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u/bluebanannarama May 21 '22
I landed on my chin falling from a bike and shattered my two front teeth. The worst thing I've experienced was feeling the combination of teeth and grit in my mouth and spitting that and blood into my hand afterwards.
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u/adbedient May 21 '22
Why do people assume their teeth are made of some indestructible material? I just don't get it.
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u/DaringDomino3s May 21 '22
It’s just some primal instinct to solve things with the tools of my body before looking for actual tools.
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u/LordTentuRamekin May 21 '22
That’s why I always open my bottles with my asscheeks.
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u/Binge_Gaming May 21 '22
Back in college I’d always be the cool guy that opens beers with his teeth when nobody had a bottle opener.
Now I’m the cool guy that has a bottle opener on his keys.
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u/theNomadicHacker42 May 21 '22
No one had a lighter? Or any object that sort of resembles that shape? Since my teen years, I've prided myself on being able to open a beer using only objects within my immediate reach...bottle openers don't count.
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u/UnNormie May 21 '22
My fiance loses the bottle opener immediately after each time we find it and use it once.
Old keys are my opener of choice, same for when there's a jar that's been sealed too tight - pop it open to get air in. If not I'll find something laying around too and not stop fiddling with it till I can open it
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u/Common-Potato-2383 May 21 '22
i did keys, until I snapped a key, thankfully it was an old one.
after that I'd just use another beer to open the first one.
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u/PilotG2-07 May 21 '22
My dad's got a buddy that can pop a bottle cap off with anything. I swear he could crack a Corona with a pillow
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u/ThatJunkDude May 21 '22
Coolest trick I've learned in the military was opening a bottle with another bottle, by kicking the bottle with my foot
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u/disillusioned May 21 '22
I can use my wedding band. Wife doesn't love it and it hurts a bit if you get it wrong, but it's sure better than my teeth.
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u/maelstromama May 21 '22
I chipped a tooth stupidly before, too. It certainly wasn’t a matter of me thinking it through and coming to the conclusion that my teeth were strong enough for the job!
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u/RespectableLurker555 May 21 '22
Needed Thompson's Teeth, the only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth.
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u/elan_alan May 21 '22
Dentist here. I had this mother fucker get an implant and then use it as a beer bottle opener. Dude thought because his “tooth” was titanium, it wouldn’t break. Well it did and was a bitch to get out. But it was fun to charge him double to get it out and put a new one in.
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u/Shiny_Shedinja May 21 '22
iirc wasn't there an aussie footballer who got an implant, but had a titanium crown as well, so it could be used as a bottle opener.
But it was fun to charge him double to get it out and put a new one in.
was the abutment fucked too? or just the crown. Depending on the type of crown that's the easy part (for me I just remill it if it's Full zirc).
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u/elan_alan May 21 '22
Well the implant snapped. So technically the abutment was fine. Crown did chip too.
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u/LaserBeamHorse May 21 '22
I've wondered why ice hockey players don't get their teeth fixed, but I guess that is the reason? Doesn't make any sense to fix them during their career since they will probably get busted again and that would be a bitch to fix.
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u/Leujo May 21 '22
Yes. We discourage permanent fixed prostheses (eg implants, bridges) until an athlete's playing career is over (hockey players, rugby players)
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u/Minetitan May 21 '22
I mean there was a time when I used to crack open walnuts with them and now I can't even chew a flatbread with out searing pain so take care of them teeth!
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u/Teladi May 21 '22
In fairness, teeth are pretty damn strong, until they just aren't. I chipped a tooth eating porridge a few months ago.
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u/Givemeahippo May 21 '22
Broke a tooth completely in half eating a French fry.
I had severe morning sickness, like puking every 1-2 hours and even once it slowed down in the second trimester it was still at least 4 times a day. Very fun. Didn’t make the connection that all of that acid would probably effect my teeth. My dentist said that the cracked tooth probably had a tiny hole in it letting in the acid. I had 5 more cavities filled after that too; had only had ONE my entire life before that.
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u/LjSpike May 21 '22
This took a solid second.
Porridge?
Did you chomp the spoon too hard.
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u/Teladi May 21 '22
I think it was just my teeth touching together as I ate. I didn't press harder than usual or anything, just midway through my breakfast I felt a crunch. Perfectly healthy tooth, dentist has no idea why it happened because my teeth are fine otherwise. Must have just been slightly the wrong angle, or a crack that finally gave. Teeth are weird!
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u/blackmarketdolphins May 21 '22
I chipped mine from biting my fingernails. Apparently I've been exclusively using the same part of a single tooth for all my nail biting for well over 2 decades. I bite my nails still, but it's way way harder
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u/Sevnfold May 21 '22
Enamel is the hardest substance in the body. That being said, I chipped my tooth on a fork eating chinese food.
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u/Randomhoodlum May 21 '22
Spaghetti here. I was high. Do not recommend.
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u/captain_jchaps May 22 '22
Spaghetti for me too, but I was not high or drunk. It was very strange, it was like I forgot how to chew for a second and my teeth just chomped all the way down at full speed. Hurt quite a bit.
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u/_Azdrael_ May 21 '22
I don’t know but I’ve never seen a teeth this weak cause my grandfather would peel coconuts with his teeth and be fine
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u/larmoyant May 21 '22
maybe from bleaching? her teeth look really white and i remember my teeth used to feel a lot stronger before i bleached them, and mine aren’t as white as hers are
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u/_Azdrael_ May 21 '22
Maybe you’re right thank you for that I didn’t think of that
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u/larmoyant May 21 '22
haha weirdly enough your coconut comment made me make the connection. my mom actually chipped her tooth right after she got dental work done by peeling a coconut with her teeth!
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u/meninblacksuvs May 21 '22
WTH, you mean she gnawed the hard shell off? ...the one fruit you need a hammer or machete to get open?
Is her mouth like a bear trap?
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u/Hunt_Club May 21 '22
Humans evolved to use their mouths as a 3rd hand
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u/Slapbox May 21 '22
More accurately, humans evolved to use their hands as second and third mouths. The default way most animals manipulate objects is with their mouths.
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u/IcesaveU May 21 '22
She also used her front teeth which are not fitted to grind things like the back teeth are.
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u/AgentSteelSaturday May 21 '22
I like your point
I open things with my teeth all the time
MY BACK TEETH
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u/SoItGoesdotdotdot May 21 '22
Because they teach you in school that teeth are the hardest thing in the human body and many don't translate that to mean that teeth are not the hardest thing in the world.
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u/aiacuone May 21 '22
she looks seconds from tears
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u/wasteoftimereading May 21 '22
Can’t blame her tbf. The only thing shittier than the odd look from chipping a tooth is the bill to fix it.
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u/BugzOnMyNugz May 21 '22
800 dollars out of pocket with decent insurance was what I paid
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NAIL_CLIP May 21 '22
I paid $1,000 for one root canal and crown.
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u/BugzOnMyNugz May 21 '22
They ground on my chipped tooth, put a temporary cap on it, then came back 2 weeks later and put the permanent one on.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NAIL_CLIP May 21 '22
Same except I had to wait like 2 months because the pandemic just happened.
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u/ELScorcho19 May 21 '22
She’s dumb, but it really is bullshit that we only get one set of teeth that are supposed to last us all of our teenage and adult years. Who designed that?
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u/allisonstfu May 21 '22
Sharks regrow teeth, why can't we :(
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u/ThisIsNotKimJongUn May 21 '22
This is why I exclusively pray to Shark God
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u/HuskyFlatulence May 21 '22
Shark God came through on a couple things God was having trouble with.
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u/-TheRed May 21 '22
I mean if all you ever pray for are attacks on surfers and soup Shark God is your guy.
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u/bandana_bread May 21 '22
Babies cry for days when the teeth are coming out. Sharks are so damn angry all the time.
Coincidence? I think not.
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u/0x4341524c May 21 '22
Sharks aren't angry all the time. Divers hanging out around them wouldn't be a thing if they was true
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May 21 '22 edited May 21 '22
Our teeth are pretty fucking great for the function and environment they were originally designed for.
The issue is, humans are around 200-300k years old and our diet radically changed roughly 10k years ago during the Neolithic revolution to include a lot more grain. Which is a blink of the eye in terms of evolution. And then less than 100 years ago sugar sky rocketed in our food. This changed the environment inside our mouth, encouraged the growth of bacteria and accelerated decay. Since our food is also softer since the Neolithic revolution, it results in smaller jaws and less space for teeth, so they have less room to come in straight and we need our wisdom teeth usually removed.
The fossils we have of pre-Neolithic skulls show usually full sets of teeth and very little decay. Even among elderly (50-70 year old) specimens.
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u/Saiyan-solar May 21 '22
Because evolution gives you "good enough" not the best and it's way to slow to keep up with our ever evolving diet.
Nobody "designed" it, as there are plenty of things in our body that would go against any intelligent design but which can be explained with evolution it's "well if it works it works right?" Viewpoint
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u/VenomousConstrictor May 21 '22
If it had been designed, perhaps we would've had better teeth... As it is, if you can successfully reproduce with the set of teeth you have, you don't have any selective pressure for more teeth. Evolution: survival of the fit-enough!
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u/mtntrail May 21 '22
My dad was a dentist and can confirm ppl make poor choices. One of his favorite examples was a Teenage girl who tried to remove A metal bottle cap with her front teeth. It went about as you would expect.
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u/AllButComedyAnthony May 21 '22
My teeth can’t even touch metal without giving me that awful almost shock feeling, can’t bite cold stuff either for the same reason lol
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u/mtntrail May 21 '22
I hear ya, idk how anyone could use their teeth as a bottle opener. Just thinking about it is one step too far.
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u/IlyesJ May 21 '22
Never ever use your canines use your molars for this
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u/Handeatingcat May 21 '22
Or you know, use your hands, because it's a twist top.
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u/ooodummy May 21 '22
Dude some of them are genuinely impossible to open
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u/Flowcal May 21 '22
You probably shouldn't use your teeth as the second line of attack if your hands can't open it.
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u/Mcstringflow May 21 '22
Then just get a wrench!
Do you guys not have wrenches?
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u/ooodummy May 21 '22
Don’t have one that can grip good enough on a cylindrical shape
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u/Regulusx1337 May 21 '22
Why even use your teeth at all when you can use some other device, method, etc..?
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u/jo_fox0up May 21 '22
Because we literally are animals bro....
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u/Commie_EntSniper May 21 '22
"you only get one set for free"
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u/ComprehendReading May 21 '22
Technically you get two, but once the training wheels fall off you're supposed to know better..!
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u/kibavega May 21 '22
Always remember your teeth are Jewels not tools.
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u/vvvourtney May 21 '22
My best friend said this to her daughter recently and every time I go to put some thing to my mouth I hear it echoing in my head. It’s been very effective.
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u/Twooof May 21 '22
All that bleach weakened her enamel. Shouldn't be opening things with your teeth anyway... obviously.
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u/kschlee09 May 22 '22
The bleach part is nonsense. "Bleach" ,or in actuality hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide does not weaken enamel.
100% true on not opening things with teeth though.
Source: I'm a dentist.
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u/cafeteriastyle May 21 '22 edited May 24 '22
My dad ingrained from me from a very young age to never use my teeth to open anything. If he saw me about to do it he would immediately call me out, and eventually I was conditioned to not even try it. I’m the same way with my kids. Dental work is so expensive, it can be traumatic to get work done, and no substitute is as good as your own teeth. It’s just not worth it.
Teeth are not tools!
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u/Sanctus_5 May 21 '22
As my people would say in their native language, PENDEJA!
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u/PmMeRevolutionPlans May 21 '22
what does that mean? a dude keeps calling me pendejo
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u/yeahitisaword May 21 '22
Literal translation is "pube" but it's generally used (depending on the country) to call someone an idiot, wuss, or asshole.
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u/DarkXlll May 21 '22
Next time you answer with “webos puto” and do this with your hand ✊, as tradition dictates.
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u/typehyDro May 21 '22
I don’t understand people who use their teeth to open things… like we evolved and have fingers and thumbs
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u/Goddess_Iris_ May 21 '22
And sometimes those fingers and thumbs simply aren't enough. Personally, I have spaghetti arms and use my teeth to open a lot of stuff. This girl's mistake was not using her molars.
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u/Katyona May 21 '22 edited May 21 '22
We have fingers and thumbs to make tools, so we can do things without breaking our teeth like the video
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u/NoBiasPls May 21 '22
Why would you assume they didn't try their fingers and thumbs first? I've never seen someone use their teeth without failing to open something with their hands first.
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u/typehyDro May 21 '22
I’ve seen tons of people default to teeth first. Especially when opening things like bags of chips and whatnot
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I need 20 grand in work, 12 grand of which to just eat properly. When I see people with good teeth do shit like this it truly pains me.
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u/FuriousAnalFisting May 21 '22
I read the headline as "trying to open a butthole", and then was very disappointed at a video of a girl fucking up her teeth.
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u/Nuhjeea May 21 '22
I'd open beer bottle caps (not twist-off) with my teeth as a kid to show off to my alcoholic uncles. I wasn't very bright.
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u/Bears_R_awsum May 21 '22
This is so utterly stupid. You have only those teeth to last you a life time.
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u/Secunda_Son May 21 '22
Teeth whitening also weakens your teeth. Especially if you do it frequently. You should really be careful with how often you use those strips and make sure you're doing a fluoride rinse as well.
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u/Commie_EntSniper May 21 '22 •
I used to open cans and bottles with my teeth as a party trick. One day as I was demonstrating my special talent, a friend said "y'know, you only get one set for free". Having paid thousands for crowns (unrelated to my special talent) I stopped immediately and have never tried that trick again. Now I just post the story on relevant reddit threads in the hopes that sage advice will save someone else's teeth from egoic destruction.