Cracked a tooth last night while eating a carrot.
Wouldn't have happened if I'd been scoffing cake.
Just sayin'.
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Cracked my tooth on an almond, apparently it is a thing for older people.
That's one part of getting older I could live without 😬
Unclear. The carrot, normal carrot, and tooth cracked, or carrot had hard object inside, cracked on hard object?
I massively busted a tooth with the combination of hard toast and a tongue ring years ago. More recently, I have been finding more and more in prepackaged mince meat shards of bone, and consequently I am training myself to react to resistance in my mouth with gentleness.
I already have too many chips and damage and I'm an "old person" now.
If you ate cake regularly by my age you'd probably have no teeth.
I ate a steak made from beef neck last night. It was impossible to swallow without chewing it about a minute from each bite. Now THAT is good for your teeth.
It's worse than that, it was a slice of carrot in colslaw. Not sure how old you are, I'm about to hit mid forties, and comparing how we're aging among friends recently I remarked it's only really my teeth letting me down because, frankly, I love cake 😄
well, now we know why your teeth are falling apart. I've never had a sweet tooth, and the only hook sugars had on me was via alcohol.
With that off the menu, the only thing remaining to make total happiness in my mouth is getting these damn wisdom teeth out. One of them half died, and the dentist (serbian) said "it's ok, just leave it there" and recently after Marks and Spencer fancy potato chips, laced with maltodextrin and idkwtf, suddenly the "ok" half a wisdom tooth is like toothache, but not a normal toothache, the chemicals in those chips made the nerves tweak constantly, and I already use potassium nitrate containing Sensodyne toothpaste because of my chips and nerves, and after the industrial waste crisps nothing stops it, not lidocaine, not acetaminophen gel.
Getting my wisdom teeth out will be amazing. My lower jaw is very squashed up and a couple of decades of way too much mouth breathing, despite my knowing better (again, blame alcohol, mainly) it has impacted the look of my whole face in a negative way, my cheeks have sunken down and I want this fixed, so it's taking a lot of my attention to build the habits.
The only sugar that I consume in any sizeable quantity anymore is lactose, and that doesn't feed bacteria in the mouth that produce tartaric acid or promote enamel eating bacteria growth. I've been off the sugar so much now that one time eating starchy food I can taste it in my mouth for days, and I hate that taste.