i have a crooked tooth tbh

sucks

had braces too. it's like all my teeth are straight except for this one in the bottom front row

Same thing going on, sans braces.

Way low on the list of things that I'd put effort and money into fixing about my body/appearance, tho.

I have a discolored front tooth from a root canal...and a slightly tilty bottom front tooth. Australian dental care at your service :)

lol my American dentist looked at xrays of my root canal and said that it looked like something done by a military dentist on the frontlines. which was kind of cool. but he didnt' offer me a free crown so here I am still with a brown tooth. I don't love it, it makes me smile differently, but it will cost soooo much money I still can't bring myself to go ahead with it.

yea i had braces for 3 years in junior high, no way i'd go thru that again for one crooked tooth

but still

shit's annoying. for no other reason than i keep tonguing it. u can't even tell i have it unless ur looking from some weird angle tho

stop following western beauty norms

i was blessed w/ nearly perfect teeth!
they could be a little whiter but mostly i'm pretty lucky and never had to have braces!

T don't mock we FREAKS OF NATURE with yr flawless teeth plz.

Cruel.

if it will make u feel better there is a tiny bit of overlap on the bottom 2 but overall they're perfectly straight.

anyway, i said they weren't as white as i'd like. i probably shouldn't drink as much coffee :(

Oh go to the mall and get them whitened for thirty bucks.

Meanwhile the wretched dentally challenged will remain weeping over our snaggled teeth.

Basically the ilx poster tehresa is a joker-faced nazi and is oppressing the crooked teeth people of America. I for one stand against her tyranny.

I have this one incisor on the bottom row that's a little behind the others and it wouldn't bother me except that it seems to be getting worse by about .2mm a year and I have this fear of my entire dental structure finally collapsing from the strain. Last night I had a dream where i realised I could just pop it back into place /:

i have one too, on top, even though i had braces. apparently no one can tell but i can feel it :(

I have a gap between my two front teeth that I've always wanted to fix.

I had braces for FIVE YEARS and my teeth are still fucked up - not so much that other ppl really notice but enough to bother me. :-(

:-E

I always had perfect teeth, no braces, and then during a long 20s wilderness of being lazy about dental care, my top wisdom teeth grew in and pushed all the others around. Now they look reasonably straight, but the outer incisors are kinda angled and almost overlapping on the inner ones; there's one precise profile angle from which they look snaggly.

possibly of interest to the trans-Atlantic ILX demographic: June Thomas (Brit) writes a seven-part series for Slate about her teeth and American dentistry

http://www.slate.com/id/2229630/pagenum/all/

I have a crooked tooth. Right up front, the top leftmost inscisor is angled off kilter. It has never bothered me tbh.

Mine were PERFECT when I got my braces off but I do things in my sleep and could not wear my retainer through the night. I would go to bed with it on and wake up to find it clear across the room. Not only did I take it out in my sleep but I would throw the damn thing as far as I could. My teeth shifted a bit and sort of separated so that there are some small spaces in them now. If I could afford it I would get Invisalign but I've heard that they don't even work that well and my teeth aren't really THAT bad.

haha I had that same problem with tooth-grinding mouthguards -- actually managed to lose one completely. went to sleep with it in, woke up ... poof.

^^ British and Australian twelve-year-olds feel free to have fun with the end of that one

yeah i used to take my retainer out in my sleep. once i threw it on the ground and my sister stepped on it and broke it. then i got scolded by the orthodontist. it really frustrated me at age 15 because how am i supposed to control what my body does to foreign objects in my sleep?

yea i think my crooked tooth is b/c i grind my teeth at night maybe? sometimes i wake up w/ a sore jaw.... braces worked great for basically 10 years - mine were perfect up until maybe a year ago (i'm 26 now, btw), now there's just this one crooked bottom front tooth. i think

if you ever want to completely destroy your mental health, look into what happens in cases of extreme chronic tooth-grinding over many years -- it is really, really, really not cool

shit i grind my teeth at night now i am scared

i had a night mouthguard once when i was like 16 but it's long gone

My daughter had a top incisor that was pushed a bit forward. I didn't put her through all the braces business mostly because the ortho wanted to pull most of her teeth and completely rework her bite, which other dentists had said was really no problem. I never realized how much it troubled her though. She just finished a 1 year deal with the invisaligns, which worked really well for her - didn't need to have any teeth pulled or dental arch/palette expanded. I really can't tell that much of a difference in her smile, but she can and she's happier with it now.

this is scary

yeah I had a real period of tooth-grinding fear around the time I noticed that, umm, certain of my teeth were, umm, getting sorta, umm, flattened. I think it eventually stopped, but my canines aren't really so much pointy anymore.

during said period I saw many horrifying pictures on the internet of people who had like HALF TEETH, like ground straight across and down to the halfway points, with all the inner tooth-stuff exposed and presumably decaying and hurting on levels I don't even want to imagine, plus then that messes up your jaw and your whole maxillofacial deal and basically your head stops working :(

i will just get dentures problem solved

ha

yea i just did a GIS for 'bruxism' xp

terrifying

guys shut up

oh shit I AM NOT LOOKING UP TEETH GRINDING. I grind mine so badly that they're pretty much all flat already. I have woken RS up before in the middle of the night because I was grinding them so loudly. Shit. Now I'm all nervous and I give myself about 30 mins before I'm googling the crap out of chronic teeth grinding. :-(

okay well I think the good news, mental-health-wise, is that I'm pretty sure you don't get to the HALF-TEETH stage without letting things go for a really, really long time, and probably shouldering more pain and discomfort than I will ever be able to, so basically horseshoe is right -- like if you get adequate dental care the horrible stuff will just Not Happen, and instead you will get something slightly less horrible like having all your teeth capped or replaced or something.

hahaha "getting all your teeth capped" is apparently the REASSURING option

maybe in the future they will be able to cap them with magnetic/conductive ceramics you can wire up and thus use your nightly tooth-grinding to charge your iPhone

The only reason I don't have a night guard yet is because I know that I won't be able to sleep with it in.

OH GOD I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF. THOSE POOR PPL AND THEIR MINI 1/2 TEETH!

*makes dentist appt stat*

I worked with a kooky old bird at a commercial laundry (back in the dark, dark ages of Veg Grrl)...in addition to being kicked out of every pub in town for FIGHTING (she was 65 at least), she told me the frightening story of how she accidentally knocked a tooth out, so she went in to the dentist and told him to pull. them. all. out. All of em. she didn't want to go back. So now she has a mouth full of dentures. Kook. 100% kook.

that's totally what i'm going to do

yeah I read that and was like Kook? Sounds like one smart lady to me!

possibly of interest to the trans-Atlantic ILX demographic: June Thomas (Brit) writes a seven-part series for Slate about her teeth and American dentistry

http://www.slate.com/id/2229630/pagenum/all/

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, October 8, 2009 5:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^ the whole 'oh, no one in the north of england has any real teeth' thing is really odd, unless the writer is old enough for her childhood to be, like, pre-war

after I finally got my braces off, on my return trip to the ortho he said "well hmm now you have an underbite, but we can fix it by pulling one of your teeth and just pushing the rest of them to fill the gap"

like, seriously? you just put me through four years of shit that you knew wouldn't work?

Welcome to the wonderous world of fee-for-service medical care, where the more they do to you, the more they get paid!

yeah after spending time away from the US I think the American obsession with perfect teeth is a big huge scam

at the very least I think all kids should wait until after they hit puberty to get braces - I had a friend who had the biggest gapteeth in middle school, but in high school he hit his growth spurt and everything in his mouth shifted until it became perfect

it seems at least common sense to wait and see what your genes do for you before you invest $$$ in orthodontics

I was 9 when I got my braces and they had to pull 8 of my baby teeth just to put them on. It was awful.

http://personal4.iddeo.es/mmoreira/images/braces/lisa_simpsons2.jpg

ha, i was looking for images from that exact episode. the photos where the dentist is like "this lisa at age 11.........age 14.....age 16........and...age 17" and her teeth have like permeated her skull

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/britishteeth.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/jacqp/LisaTeeth.jpg

love this episode sooooo much

http://digg.com/health/Homer_Simpson_s_Dental_Plan_Dilemma/t.png

The ludicrous headgear the little girl was wearing c/o Steve Martin in "Little Shop of Horrors," that was very unsettling to me as a small girl...also the crazy nitrous gasmask-backpack thing Steve Martin wore while working on Seymour...I didn't understand that was visual hyperbole.

hahha yes!!!!! xxp

srsly it's one of my fav simpsons episodes ever

love the chicken dance homer does (IIRC)

I had braces + retainer, but I have a crooked tooth that is half fake, so HA in the face of modern orthodontics.

i had braces for 5 years, it was fucking horrible, my teeth aren't perfect now, in fact i think the small gap in my front teeth is kinda cute

i'm also missing a top tooth