/wiz/ - Wizardry

I have several cavities that I can't afford to fix. Used to get infected pretty often, but brushing, teeth cleaning, and mouthwash have made it much less of an issue.

>>218913
It seems like you can just trudge along for years with shit teeth. I forgot I also have a dead tooth at the front that'll eventually fall out. I'll maybe get a veneer for it, if I have the money, maybe not though as its purely cosmetic and isn't really a tooth that does much to support the mouth.

I have bad anxiety and I just realized my teeth will decay and get worse from here on out. I guess I'll just suffer along and get dentures eventually well into old age.

Dude, watch the root cause documentary. Don't leave something dead in your body. Get it taken out. Get some new teeth. You're gonna have to drop like 8k on it but you'll be fine.

>>218916
Yeah I'm starting to realize that replacements are better than leaving dead shit after this one rotted away on me. I guess if you're doing yearly check ups you won't be taken by surprise by one decaying on you.

The damage isn't as bad as it seems, none of my cavities have gotten any worse over the last 7 years. I'll still get the ones close to the core filled though because they're at risk. This last remaining dead tooth at the front I'll get replaced with an artificial implant in two years hopefully. It'll be tough savings but I'm sure I can manage it.

Removal is often the better choice over trying to do a root canal and save the tooth. After that the implants are basically just cosmetic. If you have the money, get the implants because appearances matter in this cruel world.

I hope this thing pans out
https://www.luminaprobiotic.com/

I read about this research a long time ago where some guy supposedly cured cavities by creating some alternate form of the main bacteria that causes cavities that produces ethanol instead of acid. The new form of bacteria replaces the old one somehow and you don't get cavities anymore. I think he wanted to get it approved as a medicine or something but the regulators shut it down. Recently some group of investors uncovered the research and are trying to sell it but from what I heard last they are also running into regulatory issues.

I feel like I am just barely managing to hold onto things now after years of neglecting my teeth. I brush after every meal and floss with a water flosser almost every day. I have dry mouth from weed so I use a nanohydroxyapatite toothpaste since it is less reliant than flouride on saliva to remineralize teeth. I only started brushing because things started to hurt. I am lucky it started hurting before things got too far to salvage.

>>218989
When I was 18 and ignorant about the world, I just told dentists "lol remove it" after every sports injury shattering teeth or when it needed a root canal. This has caused one wisdom tooth to come in impacted.

So I lost 3 teeth, not counting wisdom teeth, all in all, all on one side. One tooth is chipped from another tooth moving. I'm only in my early 30s so I feel like I'm so far behind the game.

The thing is though the rest of my teeth seem pretty healthy, sure, there's cavities, but they're fine for the most part.

>Removal is often the better choice over trying to do a root canal and save the tooth

It depends. If you start getting gaps in your teeth, they shift and chip away at other teeth. But if you get a root canal and let it rot, you'll quickly find that yeah, your other teeth around them will fuck out.

Just got the tooth removed. I felt the chipping each night as I tried to sleep and freaked out, I got it early on as it was beginning to embed in the next tooth over.

However the foul taste in my mouth still isn't gone. I'm wondering if it's an abcess in my dead front tooth and I just freaked out, picked out the most obvious tooth and blamed that. I never had a front xray so you wouldn't know.

It's a lie that baking soda harms your teeth. Cheapest thing for washing and brushing.