I’m legit about to lose a tooth. Am I being melodramatic by calling that a dental emergency?
Well I’m fucked.
My options are pull this tooth out myself and have a gap in my mouth and be mocked by my coworkers for missing teeth or wait until January, risk being in pain and unable to chew properly for that long until I can get to a dentist to get braces I can’t afford even with insurance and be mocked by my coworkers for having braces at 29.
Now seems like a good time to start drinking again.
It’s going to be alright, my dude. ❤️❤️❤️
1. The tooth that wants to come out is deciduous, right? Its whole purpose is to come out. If it has finally decided that now, after nearly 30 years of existence, it is ready to say goodbye to the gummed life, then I say let it be so!
1a. If it is literally loose enough that you think normal chewing could knock it out, then let that happen dude, you’re going to cause yourself so much more pain by trying to avoid it coming out if that’s what it wants to do.
2. Fuck your coworkers opinions, man.
2a. Are they really that shitty that you think this will be a prolonged problem? If so, dude, GTFO. Now that you have payroll experience getting another job won’t be nearly as bad.
2b. If it’s more that they might initially tease you for it, telling them the truth would be a good way to get them to shut up. I mean, it’s a deciduous tooth, it do how it be.
3. Adult braces aren’t that weird or bad. My mom got braces at 40 because her family couldn’t afford them when she was a child.
3a. Dude, you could get rainbow rubber bands for the braces, how rad would that be???!!
4. I can only imagine how uncomfortable it must be to have to deal with loosing a tooth as an adult, even if said tooth is a late bloomer and should have come out about twenty years ago. But man, it’s going to be okay. Child you handled this back then. You’ll be okay. ❤️❤️❤️
Yeah it’s deciduous. My main worry is that the permanent tooth is too impacted to descend on its own so I’ll have a visible gap until I can get it dealt with. And dealing with it will require surgery and braces.
My coworkers gossip a lot. My work “friend” seems to actually encourage it and then tells me what people say about me. Though tbh one guy told Dennis to fuck off to his face and faced no consequences so I could probably get away with telling someone to go to hell if I have to. I’m almost more afraid of people acting like it’s cute. I…do not want that….
Child Me most certainly did not deal with it. I’m sort of surprised this never came up but remind me to tell you about Child Me’s Adventures In Dental Crap aka Adults Are Horrible.
My greatest hope now is that if I have to pull this thing myself that I’ll be able to do it at work in front of someone because that’s be disgustingly badass and would probably get people to give me a wide berth went it comes to my teeth.
Tbh I think I’d go with black bands. It’s as -ahem- metal as I could get. Or black and red. That could be cool.
The Paradox Machine 