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[GiddyRobin]

Okay, so...maybe based on the wonderful "advice for past self" thread, I've noticed many people mentioning their teeth!

I'm also someone who wishes they'd done better. I have very thin teeth. Very even, but my genes mean thin teeth and also definitely not a Hollywood smile. I also spent a big chunk of my life throwing up because I had undiagnosed coeliac disease. Not very good for the old tooth health.

They're certainly not yellow, but I'm not winning any Colgate ad positions! No fillings, surprisingly! Just thin and I'm terrified of biting a whole apple.

So! In light of that - what's good for teeth that have been damaged? Not lovely strong healthy teeth, but teeth that have been a bit biffed around? I've got my eye on a dentist in Scotland should any ever snap, but honestly I'm happy with my gob at the minute. I'd just like to keep 'em nice looking.

Tips! Stories! Anything!

I used to just have treatment going on and on and on. Never completed because fillings would come out and they'd start to decay again. It started when I was a child and my parent's never made me clean them at all. So I have barely had a time in my life I wasn't self conscious of them. I would say it affected me ever having a normal life. The last few dentists I've seen just refused to do much treatment other than pull most of them out, and I've been putting it off, trying to save money, trying to get credit for implants. I wonder if I'll ever feel ok with them

Oh I'm so sorry, that sounds so uncomfortable.

I hate that teeth are such an expense! I've a wisdom tooth that likes to fuck around every year or so, and my dentist won't take it out. I end up with an inflated cheek. I absolutely get that feeling of "will they ever be okay?!"

Mine look fine but up close I'm petrified of them shattering. DH had some kind of thing done to his as a kid where he chomped on something to give strength to them. He can't translate it and can't remember much so we're both baffled. And I'm envious!

Yeah, it would be good if the NHS could do more

I think though we will see a lot of advances in dentistry in the next 15 years. Maybe they will be regenerating enamel one day as a regular thing

I certainly hope so. I'd love to see something more than the obvious "smile" as an option. I'm happy for people who get it done, and if I suffered a break now I'd be the first to be having anything I could to sort it. I just wish there was something as an in between that's affordable and natural. It's probably my number 1 fear.

And it can definitely be genetic. I know a man who is so unfortunate (he speaks openly about it), and it's been a problem since he was a boy.

Then like yourself coming from childhood. It's just a big shame. Teeth are so important.