I LOVE MY DENTIST.
Well when I say I love him what I mean is...
...that I like him - a lot.
He is a very pizzazzy dentist with a very pizzazzy practice, movies whilst he drills etc. But the thing is he takes the time to talk to you afterwards and before about what he's done or going to do.
Today he told me that when I was younger some rubbish dentist smoewhere had moved my right canine, along with the left canine the most important tooth in your mouth. Not only is it capable of 80 kg of pressure but it keeps your whole mouth straight, hence if you lose one for any reason you get a wonky mouth. His exact words were.
"If you ever meet him again shoot to kill."
Anyway with that and a brief explanation of how dangerous mouth ulcers are, once again, he earned his money.
That's why I like him.
CLP.
2008.
X.
Comments
Ello Everybody,
Bingo Star ere.
CLP - 100% true this..... my dentist is called Steve Wright.... don't believe me look it up on yell.com!
Only problem 'e doesn't operate a BIG SHOW!
ALL - tryed ter blog before but goot BP'd!!!!!!!!
Is it too late ter choose a tune tr open terdee's show?????
I was thinkin of The Sage Of Sydney Spacepig by Jefferson Airplane..... don't believe it's a real tune.... look it up on google.com!
Chow!
I love my authodontist - finally went for the brace at 40 and once i'd made the decision i embraced my brace changing all the colours through the rainbow at my appointments. Best thing i did, not only can i now laugh lots without hiding my teeth with my hand, but the headache i woke up with every morning went and i got to have something in common with lots of my children's friends and swap horror stories with them! Never too late.
always love the show!
x
I love my denist a lot too.
I started going to him, when I fell pregnant with Sprog No 1, who is now 16! I hadn't been to the dentist for 3 years thru sheer terror... another story another day..... v. evil experience.
Anyways, he is very kind and understanding, and still is amazed that 17 years on, I am still terrified, and have to be cajoled into the chair!
Thankfully, my kids adore him too, and No 1 has had braces,and has the finest smile in the world now, which he used for attracting and snaring the female sex, and No 2 Sprog is going for a fitting after Mid-Term!! All is good in the world.
DWNB
PS - What about Have I the Right, Dead End Kids for ARF Next Week?
Hi Chris, that's funny my husband went to the dentist yersterday too and has now been given a huge bill to look forward to.I am intrigued to know why mouth ulcers are dangerous as I have had loads in the past !!
I knew your show was doing well, keep up the good work! I always enjoy it, it's one of the highlights of the day, love Jenn x x
CLP - aren't good dentists just fabulous? Mine is a lovely man who rebuilt a molar with amalgam(?spelling?) so I didn't have to pay out for a crown!! To his great surprise it's lasted more than 3 years... Ah there you go, it'll fall out tomorrow now I've said that to more than 5 million people!
A belated hooray for the RAJAR figures, no idea why CLP was in a tizzy about them, we all know we love the show but maybe we didn't know there were a mind-blowing 5 million of us out there. As Hazel says, it's too big a number to think about.
So glad my one-liner to Clodagh got through despite the 502 msg, and that you had a good 'ole time. As a new blogist, it completely makes my day when a) my message actually appears and b) someone actually replies (too many actually's there, actually...)
Missed most of Wednesday and all of Thursday, so I'm going to have to 'listen again' about THOSE tights. But given the weather forecast even for us in the soft south, I might give the caffeine and kelp versions a miss and just stick to the really thick black tights instead - not glam but v snug!
Wishing everyone a warm and fab weekend, if we don't completely freeze over, I'll be out for a brisk walk on Epsom Common in the morning - look out doggie walkers!
Hi Chris - I heard your programme today - great to drive home with. Anyway, don't shoot the guy who took out your canine there may have been a good reason for it. They often go walk abouts and end up in some very odd positions - in the roof of you mouth or even up under you nose!
What I really wanted to say though was that age isn't a barrier for orthodontic treatment if you really want to get them fixed.
Go and talk to an orthodontist about them - see GDC website - specialist lists to find a qualified one in your area.
I've treated loads of patients over 40 who wish they'd have had braces when they were younger and suddenly realise that it's possible - saying yes to one patient was was the best 40th birthday present she'd had. Go for it - you're not too old.
best wishes & thanks for the show.
jayne Harrison -
PS even treated my husband when in his 40s - great smile now & loads of life left to live. j
Hello Annie Mac!
Actually, just wanted to make your day again, actually :-)
I live not too far away from you - our doggie paths might cross some time.
Fab show tonight CLP & team - I was going to do my weekly shop on the way home but didn't want to miss anything, so carried on driving - perfect timing, you were playing the last tune just as I parked up!!
Have lovely (if snowy) weekends all
T xxxxxxx
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
Great figures--radio that is! Does that figure include us here on the internet who are overseas without shortwave?
Zoikes! Must we all chat about dental problems when I just came this morning from me dentist....argh!
Can I have your dentist, C? Please?
Mine said: this tooth needs this expensive thing done *right* *now* not next week, next month or next year, now now now, and the other two need things done back to back in the next month or two, not to hurry up on them, oh no you won't lose any, and oh yes, we can get a scalpel in there and drain it, yes we can! Here's your bill--X,XXX.XX with the first X as a 3.
Guess that cheap boat trip down the coast of Baja Mexico wasn't so cheap after all.
When travelling in countries with a large rural population and/or the country has financial difficulties installing water treatment plants, please remember not to drink water in any form except boiled, with tannic acids (tea, please with scones?), or that age old favorite: cerveza.
Also don't floss or brush very hard whilst in particular parts of the world--just a wee bit o a cut in the gum can get the bacteria in there and oh yes, they like your mouth, they do.
Isn't modern dentistry wonderful? Although if I'd needed these teeth pulled several hundred years ago, I wouldn't have minded having the dental work done by Peter the Great -- at least they'd be on public display instead of tossed into the trash....
I am always stunned when a dental pro pulls a canine. Even if it has grown through the roof of the mouth instead of coming in nicely in line with the rest of the teeth in the gums, a tooth can often be moved into its correct position through orthodontia. It's not so much that the canine helps you bite as that the feedback mechanism it provides (in a good bite) and the way it guides teh teeth when they are moved from side to side can help minimise damage from habits like clenching or grinding - it's called "canine protected occlusion" or "canine guidance" - hehehe sounds like a doggie advice bureau ;)
Anyway, age should definitely not be a barrier to orthodontia, and if you want your teeth to serve you as well as possible to the end of your days, then it could possibly be a good idea for you, depending what is going on with your bite. No idea why your dentist was so negative about it. Ortho is definitely not just for kids any more - about 40 % of my ortho's patients are adults. Certainly you cannot do everything in adult cases (or do everything in the same way) that you can achieve with kids, but the results can still be amazing.
Why not mosey over to www.ArchWired.com and take a look both at the main site and especially at the forums - meet and greet the many adults in braces who participate there - no small number of them in the UK.
As to mouth ulcers, if they trouble you, we have plenty of info and tips on ArchWired that might help.
By the way - braces don't slim you - sorry. Whilst there may be some weight loss in the initial stages of getting used to the braces, that will all be regained as soon as normal eating habits are resumed.
Is the blog working???
Evening each
Has everything gone pear-shaped?
Anne x
Hello Tinsel - thanks (grin)!
I'll be the one on the common without a doggie, watching the kite-fliers.
Not sure what's going on with the blog... got 502'd last night, so fingers crossed
AnnieMac
Belated thanks Tinsel - grin!
I'll be the one on the common without a doggie and looking longingly for the allotments. Oh yes, I'm on the waiting list, apparently I should get one by August.
Not sure what's up with the blog got 502'd last night and again tonight... third and last attempt...
AnnieMac
Here in the forest, we just tie a string to the offending tooth, and another to an arrow.
Good Monday fine people!
Not sure about dentists but I know a good psychiatrist that Helen Johnson could go and see to help with all her personalities...mind you it must get a tad confusing if they are ALL called Helen Johnson...
RosieRoo, it was Sheena Easton, 9 to 5...hope you had a good weekend!
I've discussed my delishus dentist on here before. Last time I went to see him however, he didn't give me a sticker, but a CD by his own lovely son's band. If I could remember their blimmin name, I'd tell you to look out for them, but as I got turtley hammered on Friday, I'm not at my hundred percentest today...
Chow bananas
love
hazel
x
Dentists? Haven't been to one since I was 18 - oops! But I agree, having a brace was the best thing that could've happened to me (I think I was about 13 but I seemed to have it for YEARS so bad were my gnashers!)
Well, it's certainly quiet today but thanks to Hazel for letting me know the ARF first tune (prefer the Dolly version meself) and yes, I had a wicked weekend. Quite fancy moving to Glasgow actually - lovely people, cool bars, great architecture and two new pairs of shoes thrown in - what more could a girl ask for?
Cheers,
Rosie x
Morning (Just!!)
I commented twice on Friday afternoon and also on Friday evening, but they all got 502'd - boo, hiss!! What's going on???
Seems as though I'm not the only one...
S xx.
Testing testing 123........
Alwight,
Bingo Star ere.
I tryed posting a comment ere this morn trying ter reply ter Anne G, Cathmel & Hazel LOve plus a joke but, although it seemed ter go through ok, it failed ter show!!???!?!?????!!!!??
'ope CLP ain't fail ter show for 'is show - know what am sayin'!!!!!!
Chow!
Me again,
Bingo Star ere.
I see me, later, commentation about me, earlier, blog commentation that's failed ter show 'asn't failed ter show..... it 'as shown!!!!
Chow!
Me too Bingo.... have posted several..!
What's happening...?
X R
Alwight Red,
Yeah, the whole damn situation 'as gone totally.... APE!!!!!!
I just 'ope CLP & the blog ploice ain't turned ter the valiumn with the stress - know what am sayin'!!!!
Chow!
Hi Chris
Do I sympathise about the canines! I had all four removed when I was ten and every dentist I have ever visited (and there's quite a few as I am a tad phobic) has taken one look in my mouth and gasped ' who the ... did that?' I know it makes them sound wonderful but it always leaves me feeling even worse about my
mess of a mouth!
Still...worse things happen in the world.. at least I have teeth
Keep smiling
Angela x
High Chris my dentist in westcliff on sea is called Dr Hook. ARRHHhhhh
Hi Chris, my dentists name is Mr Chattery and his assistants name is Miss White, Love the show
graet music. Thanks
Now you have me worried! Why are mouth ulcers so dangerous?
Brilliant show - I'm proud to be counted in the 5 million!
Annie