The dog ate my teeth.

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About 40 years ago I had two teeth knocked out in a construction accident. The dentist ground down the two teeth next to the two missing teeth to make a bridge. Over time the ground down teeth under the bridge decayed and the 4 tooth bridge became a 6 tooth bridge. When that bridge went bad I just told the dentist to pull all my uppers and make me an upper denture.

I've been happy with the dentures for about 10 years now, I put them in in the morning and take them out when I go to bed.

So this morning I heard my cell phone ringing in the computer room where I left it last night. When I finished the call instead of going in and getting my teeth I decided to check my email and stuff on the computer. I kept hearing crunch, crunch, crunch coming from the bedroom but thought nothing of it. I figured Spider dog was just chewing on a toy or something. WRONG.... My teeth were in pieces on the bed. LOL I had ice cream for breakfast.
 

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I know that's a negative, but I meant it as a "oh snap".

In retrospect, you deserve a negative for letting a dog live in the house.
:snicker:
 

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At least Ice cream for breakfast ain't bad....Why didn't I ever think of that before. I found a dentist who can make new teeth same day so hopefully I can celebrate with a steak tomorrow night.
 

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I’m surprised you didn’t manage to craft your very own dentures given the numerous odd jobs and labor you’ve done for your son all these years .
 

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I’m surprised you didn’t manage to craft your very own dentures given the numerous odd jobs and labor you’ve done for your son all these years .
You would be surprised. I once reglued a crown with marine epoxy. It probably lasted longer than the original dental epoxy the dentist used.
 

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When George Washington became president on April 30, 1789, he only had one tooth in his head, a single premolar poking up from his gums. A combination of bad genes and even worse 18th century dentistry meant that the man who first led the nation suffered from terrible teeth. But a toothless grin isn't very Presidential, and so Washington wore dentures. Somewhere along the line, the famous myth that Washington wore wooden dentures took root.


But that myth, John Smith, Jr., writes in a story for the Journal of the American Revolution, is just that. “George Washington never had wooden teeth, nor did anybody of his time. It would have been kind of dumb to make teeth out of wood when better materials were available.” says Smith:

Washington’s dentures over the course of his lifetime used materials like human teeth along with bone and ivory from hippopotamus, or “sea horse” as it was called in its day. Ivory from walrus and elephant may also have been used, along with lead, gold metal wire and springs, and brass screws.

So where did the wooden tooth myth come from? According to Smith:

It’s hard to say...but historians and forensic dentists possibly know how it got started. Ivory and bone both have hairline fractures in them, which normally can’t be seen. With Washington’s fondness for Madeira wine, a very dark wine, over time the darkness of the wine started to darken the false teeth of the dentures. Then the thin fractures in the bone started to darken even more than the rest of the tooth, making the lines look like the grain in a piece of wood “that misled later observers.”

George Washington's historically terrible chompers meant that he spent a fair bit of time fussing over teeth—and not only his own. According to Mount Vernon, the historical site of Washington's Virginia home, Washington had at one point bought 9 teeth from African-Americans:

It’s not clear if Washington intend to use these teeth as implants or within a new set of dentures or if he employed the teeth at all. While this transaction might seem morbid to a modern audience, purchasing human teeth was a fairly common practice in the 18th century for affluent individuals.
 

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