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how much soda did you drink? genuine question, I've never heard of someone doing this to themselves.

yeah, if that were all it took to ruin your teeth then i wouldn't have any teeth left because my eating habits are shit.

people have different tooth quality, guys

some people get away with eating sugar often and brushing their teeth once every couple days and they're fine. others have their teeth rotting out for no particular reason even with good dental habits

it's partly genetics. i know someone that takes really good care of her teeth, always has, but she has like, no enamel and constantly has cavities/root canals/ or just has them pulled. her teeth are horrible, but it's not from bad oral hygiene habits.

My brother has godawful teeth. He was sick as a baby, and his body focused on keeping him alive instead of growing good enamel, but also he spend his first couple of years sleeping with his bottle, and that is uh terrible for teeth.

So yeah. Not all teeth are created equal.

And bizarrely even with similar genetics there's a chance of someone getting less lucky. My brother only drinks unsugared tea and has no sweet tooth. I drink 1-3 cans of soda daily and occasionally snack on sweet foods. Both of us have the same rigorous regimented daily brushing. He's needed occasional dental work since he was 20, I'm pushing 30 and they still tell me I'm fine every 6 months.

(Our stomachs are more honest about our food habits, his skin is vacuum packed against his abs and I'm a shapeless undefined tube of meat.)

Many people are no more responsible for the state of their teeth than any other weird arbitrary quirk their body opts in for. No worries OP, it probably wasn't all that shitty sugar you shoved down your gullet as much as a culmination of other factors you had no choice in. Blame your family for letting you down, genetically speaking.

my parents had the same shitty diet and one of them has a couple fillings but otherwise perfect teeth

the other one has soft teeth and is verging on a horrendous bionic mouth

i lost the genetic lottery and got soft teeth

Oral health is governed by an unholy mixture of enamel strength, saliva production, saliva pH, and oral bacterial colony makeup. Practicing proper oral hygiene does wonders for staving off tooth decay, but if any one of those factors is sub-par, you're going to have a lot of trouble with your teeth even if you practice good habits all the time. If multiple factors fail, you...kind of have to resign yourself to probably having a mouthful of replacement teeth by the time you're forty.

Unfortunately, education about oral health beyond basic hygiene is shit, so while there are other measures that can be taken to help you preserve your teeth, most people don't know to look into them.

also dental insurance is treated (at least in america) as separate from regular medical insurance and many people end up going without for years because of finances, and dental work can be very expensive out of pocket so a lot of people end up waiting until a situation becomes critical before doing anything about. so you have people walking around with teeth rotting out of their mouth that might have been okay with earlier intervention.

this is me tbh. i have at least one tooth i know i'm gonna lose and it would have been fine if i could afford a damn filling when it was tiny, because i've known it was there. i have my dad's soft teeth.

Yes, that too, and unfortunately not just in America. Even countries with socialized health care often treat dentistry as something separate, up to the point where there's a complication with an abscess that sends someone to the hospital. Because apparently teeth aren't a critical part of people's health?

ugh, exactly. and aren't there even theories now about a link between gum and heart disease? it's like how a lot of places treat vision as separate as well even though eye exams can sometimes find symptoms of diseases affecting the rest of the body. everything is a moving part for the same machine and it's such bullshit that the bureaucracy of health care treats it otherwise.

dentists will definitely be the first to tell you that, yes

i've been given the lecture about sugar a few times

something like that. dental health does impact the rest of your body. it's why when you're poor, at least in my state, you'll get free dental work if you're pregnant. but only if you're pregnant. if your teeth are falling out of your head and you're getting blood poisoning from mouth infections, fuck you, but if a precious little jellybean fetus is in there? game changer.

Yep, the UK makes you pay for dental appointments on the nhs. It's not THAT bad because it's a fixed rate (I think it's like £15 for a general check up, £44 for fillings and something more for major work? I don't live there anymore so the prices have probably changed) but it is dumb af, especially now that we have so much research showing that dental problems link to other health problems.

Apparently most of your head doesn't matter when it comes to health. Only if it's your skull. Sight? Meh you can pay for that. Mental health? Ahahahaha good luck.

Not sure about hearing though.

what?! can you repeat that, deary?

On that topic, since anon reminded me:

If you're on low income and in the UK, you can apply for a HC2 certificate which will cover the costs of NHS dental treatment (as well as travel and parking to hospitals or clinics.)

It's worth applying. Even if you don't qualify for the full HC2, you might be rewarded an HC3 which would still be valuable if you need costly work done.

I actually feel freally relieved to hear this tbh. I've always thought my teeth were shit little troublemakers and - ok, my diet isn't great and I probably should floss more - it's wrecked my confidence and relationships with dentists as a result, because I always thought 'well, you're just trying to find an excuse your hygiene is probably crap'. Maybe it isn't and I just lost the genetic lottery here.

I should really floss more and cut down on the sugar anyway, but it's nice to know that maybe it isn't JUST that, you know? No one has ever actually explained genetic factors in teeth to me before.

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