Any of you haven't been to the dentist in many years how is it going for you

I just went yesterday, for the first time in about a decade. She scraped so much f**king crap off my teeth and made my gums bleed so f**king much that I think it'll be quite a while before I go again. Insane, ego-driven profession. And they are total robots about it. You'd think they would want to warm up to you a bit before scraping your teeth straight to h3ll but that's not how this goes.

Haha I was in the same boat. O cavities when I went to the dentist in Janury for the first time in 25 years. Expected a look of awe from the dentist as she gazed at my pearly whites. I was right , no cavities but that's only half of it. Apparently, much goes on below your gums which has nothing to do with cavities. Called periodontal disease which I had. Wanted to do a scaling for $700. I thought it was a scam. Wow, was I wrong. Google it and decided I best get it done. I did and hopefully early enough where the bone looss can be stopped. I have to go for perio maintenance every 3 months indefinitely.

My advice. Don't assume, no cavities = perfect teeth. Lots happening under the gum that you can't reach which causes bone loss with loose and falling out teeth.

Now git to a dentist!

I went back to the dentist for the first time in 7 years. He thought I’d been seeing another dentist. No significant plaque buildup, no cavities, no problems.

Meanwhile, my brother gets cleanings every 6 months and has had multiple cavities.

I wonder if the poking and scraping of frequent dental cleanings actually causes microdamage. The standard dental-cleaning-every-6-months prescription seems like a racket. Consistent cleaning routine with waterpik, brushing, and flossing seems fine for most people.

Not bad despite having crooked teeth & missing one incisor. I had them bleached, so at least they're white.😁 I'll probably need false teeth down the road anyway. 🤣

What do the Brits do? I hear a lot of their people have bad teeth?

Wow!...that's rough! 😬 My teeth look wonderful company to that!

My top teeth are perfect and white and little crooked on the bottom teeth. I am looking into veneers, but otherwise ok. No pain and they're white. I know they aren't Hollywood perfect, but they get me by at 53. I am actively pricing veneers. I pay attention now as I get older to everyone's teeth.

Before this year I went 7 years since my last visit, where they found 3 cavities that I just forgot to book an appointment for and before I knew it 7 years blew by. I expected my teeth to be rotten to the core and to need root canals. Nope. The dentist said they barely got any worse and just needed fillings. I'll never be able to top the satisfaction I got when I saw that smug basstard's look of disappointment after he was denied his "I told you so" moment. He was scolding me for not coming so long and was visibly pissed when my teeth for actually fine.

Aren’t you the same guy who keeps making basically this same post every few weeks? Why do you feel the need to do this? Are you lonely and weirdly only looking to bond with fellow anti-dentites?

Nope! There are numerous threads about that on here. Why don't you check the IP address. Needless to say they've been threads on here about that for years. Hell there's threads about everything! People come on here and talk about whatever. Are you a dentist?

Quite timely. About 2 weeks ago I went for the first time in at least 15 years. What started as laziness became fear over the years.
Diagnosis was one bad cavity in the way back that’s going to require an extraction, and some scaling over the next several weeks. Probably could have been a lot worse. Routine check ups and cleanings from here on out.