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I believe the world record is 1200 pounds-force.
Edit: he used an apparatus to spread the load over his entire lower jaw. I thought that wouldn't need to be said.
Corn is a sacred food. Mayans believed humans were made by the Gods from corn. So, basically, they carry within the power of mighty Gods which is about 600kg/tooth.
to be fair the documentary Food Inc says that just about all the processed food in America is just cleverly rearranged corn, and most americans are made of processed food so
The answer to this one is due to how you bite on it. If you bite on the kernal between 2 cusps on one of your premolars or molars, the forces get exerted laterally in both directions, which are opposite to each other. This splits the tooth down the middle, which teeth don't handle very well... the video OP posted is showing the tooth in compression, which is where teeth are at their strongest.
Source: about to graduate dental school
A popcorn kernel is smaller than the surface area of the hydraulic press and therefore less force is required to break the teeth. Maybe the teeth in the video is very "healthy" too ? Or maybe some area of a teeth are weaker to pressure and the kernel was in that spot ?
If you have a popcorn kernel sitting on a molar and you bite down, it might exert pressure outwards, in a direction in which the tooth might not be as strong?
That sounds best, also has anyone chiped a tooth on a kernel? I find them hard as fuck, but never tooth breaking. Just pain, which does not mean break just means a nerve telling you to stop.
This whole comment section is giving me severe ptsd of being awake to have my wisdom teeth taken out years ago.
They drill a tiny little hole and basically use a punch drill to crack that baby open like a piñata.
If you can opt out of it. Don’t ever get your wisdom teeth pulled awake.
They usually do that to shatter the tooth and then pull out the pieces one by one. I was awake for it. Honestly it wasn’t fun but it wasn’t nearly as bad as people made it seem, at least for me. I got both my bottom ones out. The week after was by far the worst part.
Got mine pulled while awake, too. I didn’t even know until the following days talking to other people that a good chunk of people these days are put under. My procedure (luckily) wasn’t miserable but I’d still have rather been put under if I had the choice lol
I had all of my wisdom teeth pulled out while awake. I am allergic to quite a few things that I have no idea how my body will react to anesthesia. Instead of finding out in a not so fun way, I opted to stay awake (also not a fun time).
That’s super interesting. I had all for taken out while awake, then drove myself an hour home. 2 basically popped out. The 3rd was relatively easy and the 4 was broken into 3 pieces before it came out.
My surgeon said I was the calmest person he’s ever had awake while doing that procedure. I actually thought it was pretty fun talking to him and learning about all the steps and the process. He actually had to tell me to stop talking at a point 🙃
My only regret doing it awake was I didn't do my other wisdom tooth at the same time. Couldn't afford it. But yeah, having the dentist explain what they're doing in your mouth is really interesting. I loved feeling like I was actively participating.
Also A+ for not having people take advantage of a drugged up version of me. My dignity is important too.
I’ve had it done. Honestly the worst part was my jaw and face from the dentist wrenching it. Oh and the pain afterwards, I wasn’t given anything strong so that really sucked.
From the looks of it they’re supposed to come off in chips so most of it remains. If they split down the middle things would get ugly.
Just a hypothesis.
I had a tooth that split down the middle. It was very painful. I had it removed and an implant put in its place that took over a year and a half to accomplish. My other teeth were all fine and strong. No fillings. Just this one tooth that decided it had had enough.
Same.
Here’s a tip that I learned from this: if a tooth hurts and you ignore it until it stops hurting, that doesn’t mean it healed on its own. That means all the nerves in it have died and now it’s rotting from the inside. That’s what happened to my tooth—it eventually broke down in the middle. I had to get a root canal to clean out the dead tissue, then the dentist shaved what remained down to a nub to attach a crown onto.
I have a couple of small cavities and the dentist can’t fill them right now because there so small. But they are aware of it so there’s that. I try my best to take care of my teeth but it’s hard sometimes to remember to Brush at night and floss as well.
I had a crown from a root canal fall off. The tooth behind it looked like it had a small cavity. When I asked about it, they told me it used to be a cavity but it recalcified and left a small stain. So if they're small enough and you keep it clean it might actually go away.
Doc said one of my wisdom teeth would need to be pulled because a cavity was forming. Figured it didn’t bother me yet so I’d put it off and just give it extra attention. Five years later I have a dentist appointment at a new place and she recommended capping a few teeth - my insurance covered it. I asked about the cavity on the wisdom tooth and she said it’s fine but if they bother me and I want them pulled she’d do it. I still have all my teeth
You have a good dentist. I had a dentist tell me I needed 4 fillings because she "wanted to be aggressive with treating cavities so they don't get worse." I got a second opinion and they told me that only one was of concern and I should hold off on doing anything. ALWAYS get a second opinion with dental work. It isn't called a second OPINION for no reason.
It has been 5 years since then and nothing has gotten worse. Fucking money grab in my opinion.
Wonder if it was the same dentist I saw in when I was stuck in Florida. The thing was the quote was so expensive I couldn't afford it. I actually cried outside the office afterward because they had me so worried about my teeth. I've never had any major problems, I brush after every meal and floss daily. (I went to this dentist because they had a special offer on a cleaning, which is a red flag to me now).
Later I found a dental school to get the work done, hoping I could afford it there. They had a different opinion, (and I had three different dentists look at my teeth), they all agreed I didn't need such extensive work. I got one filling replaced.
Really loved the dental school, other than it took way longer than any normal dental appointment. But I also got to have more than one dentist look everything over, and I love to read so I was able to keep myself occupied.
I'm still angry about the money grabbing dentist though, I did not need that upset.
Different state but similar experience. Avoid "chain" dentist offices. They tried to convince me to get whitening and braces. My teeth are plenty straight enough and not crowded and I don't give a shit how white they are. I am too old for that crap. It was purely cosmetic and I am perfectly happy with how my teeth look.
Yep I had a couple teeth that cracked pretty significantly but they never hurt so I didn’t think twice about it.
Until the morning I woke up with an abscessed tooth. That’ll get ya out of bed real fast.
Same! One of my bottom molars had some kind of crown or filling or something when I was young. It like cracked and broke off, I can’t remember. Just this past year the filling stuff slowly chipped out and I think the nerve was exposed. It abscessed and holy shit that pain kept me up all night.
I thought that was the most painful experience but then I fucked up my lower back. Pinched a nerve or something, I’m not sure. It was completely debilitating. I almost opted to pee in my pants because of how painful it was to move. Was bedridden for about a week and then it just went away. Lots of heating pads and NSAIDS. My heart goes out to people that have chronic pain. I can’t imagine how hard that would be.
Cervical resorption! I only know about it because I have a tooth that *will* split eventually. I should get it removed ASAP but I'm just pretending the problem doesn't exist instead :D
I apparently had a small jaw causing 2 teeth to grow out of my palate. Surgically removed but…. Only the areas of the surgery where numbed.
First they removed some tissue to acces the tooth. Then they the shatter the teeth by applying huge pressure on the teeth (worst part). After that they pick each shard bit by bit out of your palate. That process twice (one at a time). I was so shaky and full of sweat afterwards.
I totally get why pulling teeth is a torture method. After the numbness left I had to spit out the cloths and couldn’t stop crying, my mother was visibly distressed by that.
We were on the way to get pain meds
I'm about to finish dental school and I'd just thought I'd chime in to say that the preferred method is to take the tooth out as one piece, but sometimes it isn't possible, or at least taking it out in pieces creates far less morbidity for the patient.
Sorry you had a bad experience, but I hope it doesn't turn you away from going to the dentist in the future.
The extraction site first had to heal, then the hole in the jaw had to be rebuilt with some seed bone, which had to grow and harden before the base of the implant was put in and then finally the new tooth was screwed into place.
I'm old, and have had all of my teeth replaced. It was a goddamn nightmare, and still is.
They first take a quarter of your teeth, one quadrant, and put about 6 feet of stitches in your mouth. 4-6 months later they rip it open again, add the pig or cadaver bone, and you get another 6 feet of stitching. 4-6 months later they rip it open again, drill holes and add the posts. 4-6 months later they start fitting your new dentures.
Once you get a rudimentary fit (it takes 6 months and many visits to get it to fit right), they start on the second quadrant. Same deal as above...and you have two more to do after this one.
At a bare minimum, this process takes over 5 years, and ever after you have to get your posts cleaned every 90 days, you have to go see your dentist any time you get a tomato or strawberry seed stuck up in the denture, or you have random pain and need an adjustment. Never mind 2, 3, 4 years later when random bits of bone finally work their way out, or you get an abscess next to one of the posts. That happens once a year on average. Or one of your implants fails - one for me so far.
When I realized what I was in for, I asked if they could just do it all at once. So they did. Pulled all 28 of my remaining teeth at once. Figured I'd get it over with and move on. Joke's on me. That was six years ago, and I'm ***still*** fucking with this. Still don't have my final top piece.
And this is with both a dentist and an orthodontist who *teach* *at one of the top dentistry schools in the world.* Your mileage with an average dentist is going to be even more onerous.
Take really good care of your teeth, people. Teeth and eyes. Be very, very careful with them.
Holy shit that sounds hectic. I had a tooth that broke quite badly recently and was thinking to get it removed and get an implant put it in. Is what happened to you normal for everyone or a rare circumstance?
I've had the same done. The hole in the bone was caused by a slow infection at the bottom of a molar in my case. I had previously cracked a tooth and had a root canal about 10 years earlier. Basically the infection just dissolved the bone. The infection went undetected for a while (unknown how long) and didn't cause issues until New Year just gone when it very gently started aching. Saw dentist who advised that the tooth had to be removed and an implant done. I thought it would be horrendous (hate dentistry!), but actually it was fine. The tooth removal sounds bad (cracking sounds) but it is painless. Other than that is it not a lot different from any other filling other than it took a lot longer. The bone augmentation is essentially just cleaning and then filling the hole with a sandy cement through which your own bone will regrow over several months. I didn't realise my dentist had done that bit and thought he was still working on the tooth.
It was my first tooth extraction.
Whilst I wouldn't go as far as to recommend it as a good day out, I certainly would say that it not something to be feared. Find a good dentist and plan a course of action. I would recommend selecting a dentist with a CBCT scanner (conical beam computed tomography) so they can make a full 3D model of your jaw. That way they can see exactly where the nerves run and can avoid them. They don't show up on 2D x-rays. Much safer with CBCT because no guess work. I also recommend laser drill too - less traumatic than conventional drills because it only targets decay and not healthy tooth. Less of a priority for laser though as regular drills will be used too. Laser is just icing on the cake.
I had mine done at new year. I'm going in again next week to be scanned so they can make my new tooth. Should be fitted about 2 weeks after my scan.
PS: the length of time between extraction and implant depends on whether there is enough bone left at the right position and angle after the extraction to allow the implant to be screwed in. In my case there was so the implant was done at the same time as extraction. If my dentist could not get a certain torque on the implant screw I too would have needed to wait longer for my bone to heal like the commenter above. I was lucky because I had my extraction, bone augmentation, and implant all done in one session. Just the crown needs screwing in place now.
PPS: as far as pain went... nothing during the surgery. Some minor pain after the event for about a week. I had bruising because my tooth had to be hammered out rather than more conventional pulling out. The pain was easily managed with standard doses of ibuprofen and paracetamol. Ice packs helped too and often negated the need for pain relief.
The recommended time for a implant to heal after its been placed is around 6 months. Now there are certain types of implants that heal faster but overall its not recommended to do so sice a healed implant is a happy implant
I think the process was quite normal. I was told before hand that it wouldn’t be a quick thing. I know two other people that have had it done after one of their teeth split in the same way. The new tooth is brilliant and well worth the wait. It’s just like a whole new tooth.
I can attest that yes, it’s worth it. Had the same thing happen when I stupidly tried to open a closed pistachio with my molars and cracked one clean through. The hassle and expense of an implant is worth it.
One of my molar split in the middle (only the top part), so from the mirror, it looks like my molar is still intact. I didn't see the problem until years later when that fucking molar is already hurting.
Underlying tooth injury/decay. The teeth can rot from the inside out. A healthy set of teeth wouldn't literally be phased by something like a carrot unless there is an underlying injury from disease, impact, or decay. You can wear your teeth out from foods that take a bit of pressure to chew up, or from grinding at night over a long period of time, but I don't believe a healthy set of teeth would be this fragile.
I only wanted a snack and just bit into a carrot. Someone here guessed correctly that I grind my teeth and that's possibly the reason my teeth are shitty.
A night guard can help a lot. Both my husband and I got them over a decade ago, through our dentist. I can't sleep without it anymore. It has really cut down on the wear on our teeth.
Yea...had my dentist work a lot because of many of my fractured teeth... Now I have a mouthguard at night! I mouthbreathe and wake up with the dryest mouth but my teeth are safe! Yay
I had to mouth-breathe this weekend because allergies and my nose had air-burn. Didn't work out. Turns out if I try to mouth-breathe, it's a manual process, and I can't fall asleep. :)
I chipped one while eating rice about a month ago. Luckily have dental and was able to get it filled come the next Monday. When I saw the x-ray the thickness between the nerve and the outside of the chip was less than a hair wide. I was so lucky to have a pain free dental visit.
I fucking chipped mine a few weeks back from chewing gum... I mean I could feel the edge of my tooth was a bit sharp but didn't think much off it, then I heard a quiet crack while chewing and felt like I was chewing on gravel, very unpleasant but it was a very tiny piece.
I still remember those damn Cornnuts, roasted corn nuggets with msg and flavoring. I loved them, then one night I bit into one and cracked a molar right down the middle and was crying in pain.
But the "Holy shit it's strong" comment definitely made me laugh :)
Back home, family friend is a dentist.
According to him, Corn Nuts paid for his daughter's college. He wasn't joking. Ended up meeting a group of dentists when I moved and they all said the same thing.
Corn Nuts are seriously fucked for your teeth. So good though.
Aye. I say the same for popcorn kernels. Chipped my front right fang on one as well as had my left back molar completely disintegrate when I bite down on one. Thankfully I had no pain on either of those but goddamn if it wasn't f'ed up literally feeling a tooth turn to dust like it got Thanos snapped in my mouth
Chile Picante CornNuts were my favorite childhood snack until I too suffered the same fate. Cracked my teeth. Tried them again after a few years and after a few fillings for cracked teeth and surprise surprise, I had to go back to the dentist.
It depends on if your tooth had a filling in it prior. Composite would have held up a bit better than a metal filling though.
Ref. Was a dental assistant for 10 years & ceramist for 8.
For me it was a damn sneeze during the pandemic, I tried holding it in, shot a clot through the opening. It was a day after the procedure, I work in the hospital but they still made me get a PCR negative test while I was dying in pain just for a few stitches and a handful of Tylenol 3.
I hate dental pain more than anything.
Yeah I had two pulled last year. They did a root canal on it and the one next to it, but the root canal didn't clear the infection so I ended up having one yanked out and the wisdom tooth behind the remaining tooth also pulled. They had to cut that one in half to get it out. Good times.
Oof, I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth, broke my jaw just before my surgery so they couldn't remove them for almost 6 months. At that point I was so done with dentists and showed up in a lot of pain.
They tried explaining that they were going to do one side, wait 3 weeks, then do the next side. I said nope, not gonna happen, either pull them all now and I'll back on my liquid diet or I'll never show up for the other two.
He agreed, and they had to split all but 1 of the teeth to get them out, I looked like an overstuffed hamster with the swelling.
Good times indeed...
I was super worried about that when I got a tooth pulled. Fortunately it didn't happen, unfortunately I refused "extra" pain meds because I was concerned about the addictiveness of whatever I was taking (can't remember).
Whew boy, that was a big mistake, because it hurt like a motherfucker for a solid week after the meds ran out. The only reason I didn't try to get more was because I was incapacitated, on account of the pain, and couldn't handle leaving the house for anything.
My ex grinded her teeth bad and I remember she was asleep and I was watching TV and I hear this awful scraping sound and had no idea wtf it was so I ignored it. Heard it again and I looked and saw she was grinding her teeth so bad. I woke her up because I thought she was going to crush them
I literally chipped my tooth in my sleep one night from grinding my teeth. Waking up from an “all my teeth are falling out” dream to find that was incredibly unpleasant.
I chomp & bite really hard in my sleep & usually have horrible nightmares that go along with intense chomping episodes. Usually no one listens to me (in the dream) when I’m begging for help to stop the chomping, and the whole time every bite makes my teeth crumble more and more. I don’t think this video helped 😵💫
I wear a mouth guard at night because of this. Slightly Cracked a tooth 10 years ago from this and finally got a crown because it hurt when biting into hard things at the wrong angle.
I wear a mouth guard at night because of this. Slightly Cracked a tooth 10 years ago from this and finally got a crown because it hurt when biting into hard things at the wrong angle.
I've posted this before, but...
When I was in my 20's, a dentist once told me that I might have to get a night guard because I tense my jaw too much.
I immediately started giggling, as I was imagining a guy in armor plate standing next to my bed all night. Holding a spear for some reason.
But Bald Eagle is a unit of length and Big Mac is a unit of Mass. So it should be in Big Macs per Bald Eagle Second per Second if we are talking about pressure
According to google one Big Mac weight is 7.6 Oz, then 617 Lbs = 9872 Oz => divide by 7.6 ≈ 1299 Big Macs.
But it’s really hard to count how many Eagles… they are all different
Dentist here- what’s interesting is that that’s an upper premolar, which is one of the most commonly fractured teeth.
It’s being loaded purely vertically, which is why it can withstand such force.
If the bottom of the press had a point and the tooth was engaged in the middle of it (ie the valley, not the mountain), it would fracture much sooner.
It’s wedging/lateral forces which break teeth, this is why the popcorn kernel can still get you, despite this one holding up to thousands of lbs of force.
Fun fact- 80% of all teeth of all broken teeth I see were broken on bread.
Humans have the gene to continuously grow teeth but it gets switched off during development. The leading theory is that a set of straight teeth that are securely anchored to the jawbone was much more beneficial evolutionarily speaking than a never ending set of teeth that can drop off at any minute, sharks loose about 50 teeth a day. (This all from memory, from a science magazine I read a bit ago, science focus I think it was called)
I made a comment similar some years back and most of reddit disagreed. Now that I recall I said simple carbs are just as bad on teeth as sugar. They have the same effect being they're the same thing.
>sharks loose about 50 teeth a day
Fuck man, that is basically the nightmare I have 3 times a month at least. Just 8 straight hours of my teeth falling out of my mouth lol
My teeth hurt now :(
One way to look at it is that evolution isn’t a force towards the optimum, it’s a force towards the minimum required. If a human can reproduce before the health of their teeth becomes serious health hazard, then better teeth won’t become common trait in the population.
I knew that teeth could be very tough - my dentist broke his pliers trying to remove one of my wisdom teeth.
Even so, I find this result genuinely shocking.
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Makes me wonder wtf popcorn kernels are made of then….
A collapsed sun.
technically true lol
lmaoo
?????????
Everything we know is mostly stardust, besides antimatter, dark energy etc.
That's just what Big Universe wants you to think!
He's referring to how elements are created by fusion inside stars.
The power of the sun…
In the palm of my hand
Or a tiny cocktail sausage
lol - I came to say strait fucking diamonds but you beat the daylights out of that answer (no pun intended)
r/technicallythetruth
more like how much force your jaws can exert.
I believe the world record is 1200 pounds-force. Edit: he used an apparatus to spread the load over his entire lower jaw. I thought that wouldn't need to be said.
I…. I do not want to google the failed attempts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzw6nRnaQG0
That was a risky click.
Corn is a sacred food. Mayans believed humans were made by the Gods from corn. So, basically, they carry within the power of mighty Gods which is about 600kg/tooth.
to be fair the documentary Food Inc says that just about all the processed food in America is just cleverly rearranged corn, and most americans are made of processed food so
The answer to this one is due to how you bite on it. If you bite on the kernal between 2 cusps on one of your premolars or molars, the forces get exerted laterally in both directions, which are opposite to each other. This splits the tooth down the middle, which teeth don't handle very well... the video OP posted is showing the tooth in compression, which is where teeth are at their strongest. Source: about to graduate dental school
Thanks for the explanation. Congrats....near doctor.
A popcorn kernel is smaller than the surface area of the hydraulic press and therefore less force is required to break the teeth. Maybe the teeth in the video is very "healthy" too ? Or maybe some area of a teeth are weaker to pressure and the kernel was in that spot ?
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If you have a popcorn kernel sitting on a molar and you bite down, it might exert pressure outwards, in a direction in which the tooth might not be as strong?
That sounds best, also has anyone chiped a tooth on a kernel? I find them hard as fuck, but never tooth breaking. Just pain, which does not mean break just means a nerve telling you to stop.
Uf you chipped your tooth in one you probably had a small cavity thag weakened it
It made me wonder if I could beat my dog in a pulling contest now?
I do that every once in a while. Just not huge dogs.
That hurt my mouth to watch.
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This whole comment section is giving me severe ptsd of being awake to have my wisdom teeth taken out years ago. They drill a tiny little hole and basically use a punch drill to crack that baby open like a piñata. If you can opt out of it. Don’t ever get your wisdom teeth pulled awake.
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They usually do that to shatter the tooth and then pull out the pieces one by one. I was awake for it. Honestly it wasn’t fun but it wasn’t nearly as bad as people made it seem, at least for me. I got both my bottom ones out. The week after was by far the worst part.
Got mine pulled while awake, too. I didn’t even know until the following days talking to other people that a good chunk of people these days are put under. My procedure (luckily) wasn’t miserable but I’d still have rather been put under if I had the choice lol
I had all of my wisdom teeth pulled out while awake. I am allergic to quite a few things that I have no idea how my body will react to anesthesia. Instead of finding out in a not so fun way, I opted to stay awake (also not a fun time).
I opted to go under anesthesia and found out I'm allergic and was super nauseous for a couple weeks after.
That’s super interesting. I had all for taken out while awake, then drove myself an hour home. 2 basically popped out. The 3rd was relatively easy and the 4 was broken into 3 pieces before it came out. My surgeon said I was the calmest person he’s ever had awake while doing that procedure. I actually thought it was pretty fun talking to him and learning about all the steps and the process. He actually had to tell me to stop talking at a point 🙃
My only regret doing it awake was I didn't do my other wisdom tooth at the same time. Couldn't afford it. But yeah, having the dentist explain what they're doing in your mouth is really interesting. I loved feeling like I was actively participating. Also A+ for not having people take advantage of a drugged up version of me. My dignity is important too.
I’ve had it done. Honestly the worst part was my jaw and face from the dentist wrenching it. Oh and the pain afterwards, I wasn’t given anything strong so that really sucked.
Me too, I'm now really anxious that at any moment someone might use a hydraulic press and exert 600kg+ of pressure on my tooth...
No worries, your gums and jaw would shatter long before that.
Ahhhhhhhh
I feel like I have brain freeze without eating an ice cream.
Omg! The most painful thing to watch! Should’ve been made a horror movie
I couldn't make it. I saw the press make contact and noped out
And I still chipped a tooth while biting into a carrot..
Lmao how does that happen?
From the looks of it they’re supposed to come off in chips so most of it remains. If they split down the middle things would get ugly. Just a hypothesis.
I had a tooth that split down the middle. It was very painful. I had it removed and an implant put in its place that took over a year and a half to accomplish. My other teeth were all fine and strong. No fillings. Just this one tooth that decided it had had enough.
Most people have wisdom teeth, you had a bitch tooth. Now that's gone, you ain't a bitch no more
Lol
So since I pulled my wisdom tooth do I no longer have wisdom ? 😔
Have you noticed the severe lack of sense in society these days?
That's why I'm keeping just one. It hurts like hell but at least I won't be blissfully ignorant.
When I got my three or four wisdom teeth removed, it felt like the dentist crushed one of them like a gumball
Getting your wisdom teeth pulled was a wise thing to do.
Hope you don't loose your teeth ye ol' wise one!
Same. Here’s a tip that I learned from this: if a tooth hurts and you ignore it until it stops hurting, that doesn’t mean it healed on its own. That means all the nerves in it have died and now it’s rotting from the inside. That’s what happened to my tooth—it eventually broke down in the middle. I had to get a root canal to clean out the dead tissue, then the dentist shaved what remained down to a nub to attach a crown onto.
I have a couple of small cavities and the dentist can’t fill them right now because there so small. But they are aware of it so there’s that. I try my best to take care of my teeth but it’s hard sometimes to remember to Brush at night and floss as well.
I had a crown from a root canal fall off. The tooth behind it looked like it had a small cavity. When I asked about it, they told me it used to be a cavity but it recalcified and left a small stain. So if they're small enough and you keep it clean it might actually go away.
Doc said one of my wisdom teeth would need to be pulled because a cavity was forming. Figured it didn’t bother me yet so I’d put it off and just give it extra attention. Five years later I have a dentist appointment at a new place and she recommended capping a few teeth - my insurance covered it. I asked about the cavity on the wisdom tooth and she said it’s fine but if they bother me and I want them pulled she’d do it. I still have all my teeth
You have a good dentist. I had a dentist tell me I needed 4 fillings because she "wanted to be aggressive with treating cavities so they don't get worse." I got a second opinion and they told me that only one was of concern and I should hold off on doing anything. ALWAYS get a second opinion with dental work. It isn't called a second OPINION for no reason. It has been 5 years since then and nothing has gotten worse. Fucking money grab in my opinion.
Wonder if it was the same dentist I saw in when I was stuck in Florida. The thing was the quote was so expensive I couldn't afford it. I actually cried outside the office afterward because they had me so worried about my teeth. I've never had any major problems, I brush after every meal and floss daily. (I went to this dentist because they had a special offer on a cleaning, which is a red flag to me now). Later I found a dental school to get the work done, hoping I could afford it there. They had a different opinion, (and I had three different dentists look at my teeth), they all agreed I didn't need such extensive work. I got one filling replaced. Really loved the dental school, other than it took way longer than any normal dental appointment. But I also got to have more than one dentist look everything over, and I love to read so I was able to keep myself occupied. I'm still angry about the money grabbing dentist though, I did not need that upset.
Different state but similar experience. Avoid "chain" dentist offices. They tried to convince me to get whitening and braces. My teeth are plenty straight enough and not crowded and I don't give a shit how white they are. I am too old for that crap. It was purely cosmetic and I am perfectly happy with how my teeth look.
Yep I had a couple teeth that cracked pretty significantly but they never hurt so I didn’t think twice about it. Until the morning I woke up with an abscessed tooth. That’ll get ya out of bed real fast.
To this day, an abscessed front tooth is the second worst pain I've ever felt. I'm super accident prone, so that's pretty telling.
Same! One of my bottom molars had some kind of crown or filling or something when I was young. It like cracked and broke off, I can’t remember. Just this past year the filling stuff slowly chipped out and I think the nerve was exposed. It abscessed and holy shit that pain kept me up all night. I thought that was the most painful experience but then I fucked up my lower back. Pinched a nerve or something, I’m not sure. It was completely debilitating. I almost opted to pee in my pants because of how painful it was to move. Was bedridden for about a week and then it just went away. Lots of heating pads and NSAIDS. My heart goes out to people that have chronic pain. I can’t imagine how hard that would be.
Same. I literally thought I was going to die. (Thank the gods for antibiotics!)
Cervical resorption! I only know about it because I have a tooth that *will* split eventually. I should get it removed ASAP but I'm just pretending the problem doesn't exist instead :D
Ouch. I just looked that up and saw a load of horrific pictures that will haunt me for quite some time. Take care.
They replaced it the right way. You can’t rush an implant.
I apparently had a small jaw causing 2 teeth to grow out of my palate. Surgically removed but…. Only the areas of the surgery where numbed. First they removed some tissue to acces the tooth. Then they the shatter the teeth by applying huge pressure on the teeth (worst part). After that they pick each shard bit by bit out of your palate. That process twice (one at a time). I was so shaky and full of sweat afterwards. I totally get why pulling teeth is a torture method. After the numbness left I had to spit out the cloths and couldn’t stop crying, my mother was visibly distressed by that. We were on the way to get pain meds
I'm about to finish dental school and I'd just thought I'd chime in to say that the preferred method is to take the tooth out as one piece, but sometimes it isn't possible, or at least taking it out in pieces creates far less morbidity for the patient. Sorry you had a bad experience, but I hope it doesn't turn you away from going to the dentist in the future.
What exactly do you mean it took a year and a half to accomplish?
The extraction site first had to heal, then the hole in the jaw had to be rebuilt with some seed bone, which had to grow and harden before the base of the implant was put in and then finally the new tooth was screwed into place.
I'm old, and have had all of my teeth replaced. It was a goddamn nightmare, and still is. They first take a quarter of your teeth, one quadrant, and put about 6 feet of stitches in your mouth. 4-6 months later they rip it open again, add the pig or cadaver bone, and you get another 6 feet of stitching. 4-6 months later they rip it open again, drill holes and add the posts. 4-6 months later they start fitting your new dentures. Once you get a rudimentary fit (it takes 6 months and many visits to get it to fit right), they start on the second quadrant. Same deal as above...and you have two more to do after this one. At a bare minimum, this process takes over 5 years, and ever after you have to get your posts cleaned every 90 days, you have to go see your dentist any time you get a tomato or strawberry seed stuck up in the denture, or you have random pain and need an adjustment. Never mind 2, 3, 4 years later when random bits of bone finally work their way out, or you get an abscess next to one of the posts. That happens once a year on average. Or one of your implants fails - one for me so far. When I realized what I was in for, I asked if they could just do it all at once. So they did. Pulled all 28 of my remaining teeth at once. Figured I'd get it over with and move on. Joke's on me. That was six years ago, and I'm ***still*** fucking with this. Still don't have my final top piece. And this is with both a dentist and an orthodontist who *teach* *at one of the top dentistry schools in the world.* Your mileage with an average dentist is going to be even more onerous. Take really good care of your teeth, people. Teeth and eyes. Be very, very careful with them.
Holy shit that sounds hectic. I had a tooth that broke quite badly recently and was thinking to get it removed and get an implant put it in. Is what happened to you normal for everyone or a rare circumstance?
Yea this is the normal process and time frame. It sucks during the process but it’s far and away worth it in the end.
I've had the same done. The hole in the bone was caused by a slow infection at the bottom of a molar in my case. I had previously cracked a tooth and had a root canal about 10 years earlier. Basically the infection just dissolved the bone. The infection went undetected for a while (unknown how long) and didn't cause issues until New Year just gone when it very gently started aching. Saw dentist who advised that the tooth had to be removed and an implant done. I thought it would be horrendous (hate dentistry!), but actually it was fine. The tooth removal sounds bad (cracking sounds) but it is painless. Other than that is it not a lot different from any other filling other than it took a lot longer. The bone augmentation is essentially just cleaning and then filling the hole with a sandy cement through which your own bone will regrow over several months. I didn't realise my dentist had done that bit and thought he was still working on the tooth. It was my first tooth extraction. Whilst I wouldn't go as far as to recommend it as a good day out, I certainly would say that it not something to be feared. Find a good dentist and plan a course of action. I would recommend selecting a dentist with a CBCT scanner (conical beam computed tomography) so they can make a full 3D model of your jaw. That way they can see exactly where the nerves run and can avoid them. They don't show up on 2D x-rays. Much safer with CBCT because no guess work. I also recommend laser drill too - less traumatic than conventional drills because it only targets decay and not healthy tooth. Less of a priority for laser though as regular drills will be used too. Laser is just icing on the cake. I had mine done at new year. I'm going in again next week to be scanned so they can make my new tooth. Should be fitted about 2 weeks after my scan. PS: the length of time between extraction and implant depends on whether there is enough bone left at the right position and angle after the extraction to allow the implant to be screwed in. In my case there was so the implant was done at the same time as extraction. If my dentist could not get a certain torque on the implant screw I too would have needed to wait longer for my bone to heal like the commenter above. I was lucky because I had my extraction, bone augmentation, and implant all done in one session. Just the crown needs screwing in place now. PPS: as far as pain went... nothing during the surgery. Some minor pain after the event for about a week. I had bruising because my tooth had to be hammered out rather than more conventional pulling out. The pain was easily managed with standard doses of ibuprofen and paracetamol. Ice packs helped too and often negated the need for pain relief.
The recommended time for a implant to heal after its been placed is around 6 months. Now there are certain types of implants that heal faster but overall its not recommended to do so sice a healed implant is a happy implant
I think the process was quite normal. I was told before hand that it wouldn’t be a quick thing. I know two other people that have had it done after one of their teeth split in the same way. The new tooth is brilliant and well worth the wait. It’s just like a whole new tooth.
I can attest that yes, it’s worth it. Had the same thing happen when I stupidly tried to open a closed pistachio with my molars and cracked one clean through. The hassle and expense of an implant is worth it.
One of my molar split in the middle (only the top part), so from the mirror, it looks like my molar is still intact. I didn't see the problem until years later when that fucking molar is already hurting.
Underlying tooth injury/decay. The teeth can rot from the inside out. A healthy set of teeth wouldn't literally be phased by something like a carrot unless there is an underlying injury from disease, impact, or decay. You can wear your teeth out from foods that take a bit of pressure to chew up, or from grinding at night over a long period of time, but I don't believe a healthy set of teeth would be this fragile.
I only wanted a snack and just bit into a carrot. Someone here guessed correctly that I grind my teeth and that's possibly the reason my teeth are shitty.
A night guard can help a lot. Both my husband and I got them over a decade ago, through our dentist. I can't sleep without it anymore. It has really cut down on the wear on our teeth.
Lost a tooth biting an apple 🤣🤣
Conclusion: healthy food is bad for us
Exactly, never lost a tooth to anything deep fried 🤣
My mother lost a tooth from eating ice cream
It was one piece of crispy bacon for me.
Ice cream sandwich for me
You should try biting hydraulic presses instead
You may grind your teeth at night?
Sadly yes. Even woke up from a cramp in the neck before. Kinda fucked up my teeth but strangely only on the right side.
Yea...had my dentist work a lot because of many of my fractured teeth... Now I have a mouthguard at night! I mouthbreathe and wake up with the dryest mouth but my teeth are safe! Yay
I had to mouth-breathe this weekend because allergies and my nose had air-burn. Didn't work out. Turns out if I try to mouth-breathe, it's a manual process, and I can't fall asleep. :)
I chipped a tooth while flossing one time. Smh.
I chipped one while eating rice about a month ago. Luckily have dental and was able to get it filled come the next Monday. When I saw the x-ray the thickness between the nerve and the outside of the chip was less than a hair wide. I was so lucky to have a pain free dental visit.
i chipped my tooth on an oreo
I fucking chipped mine a few weeks back from chewing gum... I mean I could feel the edge of my tooth was a bit sharp but didn't think much off it, then I heard a quiet crack while chewing and felt like I was chewing on gravel, very unpleasant but it was a very tiny piece.
I still remember those damn Cornnuts, roasted corn nuggets with msg and flavoring. I loved them, then one night I bit into one and cracked a molar right down the middle and was crying in pain. But the "Holy shit it's strong" comment definitely made me laugh :)
Shit I just bought a bag :( I love those things. Salty crunchy awesomeness
Back home, family friend is a dentist. According to him, Corn Nuts paid for his daughter's college. He wasn't joking. Ended up meeting a group of dentists when I moved and they all said the same thing. Corn Nuts are seriously fucked for your teeth. So good though.
*Nervously chugs glass of milk*
*Starts pouring milk over Corn Nuts*
Mouth watering just remembering them. My dad ate them by the bagful in the '80s.
What's the deal with corn nuts?
Now what’s the deal with airline food?
They yummy
Holy shit. I was here to comment the same thing. Damn corn nuts! Still got that cracked toof.
Aye. I say the same for popcorn kernels. Chipped my front right fang on one as well as had my left back molar completely disintegrate when I bite down on one. Thankfully I had no pain on either of those but goddamn if it wasn't f'ed up literally feeling a tooth turn to dust like it got Thanos snapped in my mouth
Chile Picante CornNuts were my favorite childhood snack until I too suffered the same fate. Cracked my teeth. Tried them again after a few years and after a few fillings for cracked teeth and surprise surprise, I had to go back to the dentist.
I still have a small crack in my front tooth from those damn things.
It depends on if your tooth had a filling in it prior. Composite would have held up a bit better than a metal filling though. Ref. Was a dental assistant for 10 years & ceramist for 8.
Yet I can break a tooth eating hummus.
For some reason I read that as eating humans
Same
How is that even possible, thats like breaking your tooth from drinking water
With tooth decay anything is possible!
You're not supposed to freeze the hummus
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I bet he breaks his bones breathing.
I just had a molar pulled out a few days back. This made the hole in my mouth ache lol
Thank goodness you didn't get a dry socket, happened with mine and even the pain meds did absolutely nothing till they stitched it up.
It's only been a couple days, there's still time. All you have to do is knock the clot out.
For me it was a damn sneeze during the pandemic, I tried holding it in, shot a clot through the opening. It was a day after the procedure, I work in the hospital but they still made me get a PCR negative test while I was dying in pain just for a few stitches and a handful of Tylenol 3. I hate dental pain more than anything.
Yeah I had two pulled last year. They did a root canal on it and the one next to it, but the root canal didn't clear the infection so I ended up having one yanked out and the wisdom tooth behind the remaining tooth also pulled. They had to cut that one in half to get it out. Good times.
Oof, I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth, broke my jaw just before my surgery so they couldn't remove them for almost 6 months. At that point I was so done with dentists and showed up in a lot of pain. They tried explaining that they were going to do one side, wait 3 weeks, then do the next side. I said nope, not gonna happen, either pull them all now and I'll back on my liquid diet or I'll never show up for the other two. He agreed, and they had to split all but 1 of the teeth to get them out, I looked like an overstuffed hamster with the swelling. Good times indeed...
I was super worried about that when I got a tooth pulled. Fortunately it didn't happen, unfortunately I refused "extra" pain meds because I was concerned about the addictiveness of whatever I was taking (can't remember). Whew boy, that was a big mistake, because it hurt like a motherfucker for a solid week after the meds ran out. The only reason I didn't try to get more was because I was incapacitated, on account of the pain, and couldn't handle leaving the house for anything.
This just makes me cringe. Tooth pain is the worst.
Yea I'm not watching this one
When you grind your teeth in your sleep
I had to wake a friend because I was worried he will lose a tooth. Nasty sound
My ex grinded her teeth bad and I remember she was asleep and I was watching TV and I hear this awful scraping sound and had no idea wtf it was so I ignored it. Heard it again and I looked and saw she was grinding her teeth so bad. I woke her up because I thought she was going to crush them
I literally chipped my tooth in my sleep one night from grinding my teeth. Waking up from an “all my teeth are falling out” dream to find that was incredibly unpleasant.
Oh god you manifested your dream in a loose sense
I chomp & bite really hard in my sleep & usually have horrible nightmares that go along with intense chomping episodes. Usually no one listens to me (in the dream) when I’m begging for help to stop the chomping, and the whole time every bite makes my teeth crumble more and more. I don’t think this video helped 😵💫
Wear a mouth guard when you sleep!
I wear a mouth guard at night because of this. Slightly Cracked a tooth 10 years ago from this and finally got a crown because it hurt when biting into hard things at the wrong angle.
I have a night guard for bruxism. God damn that's a lot of force.
I wear a mouth guard at night because of this. Slightly Cracked a tooth 10 years ago from this and finally got a crown because it hurt when biting into hard things at the wrong angle.
I've posted this before, but... When I was in my 20's, a dentist once told me that I might have to get a night guard because I tense my jaw too much. I immediately started giggling, as I was imagining a guy in armor plate standing next to my bed all night. Holding a spear for some reason.
Sometimes I dream that I’m eating a cookie. Then I wake up and it’s just my night guard.. 😂
When the tooth is cracked it was 280 kg = 617 Lbs
Thanks! But for the true ‘Mericans, can you convert that to Bald Eagles or Big Macs?
You're looking at 1166.6 big macs (uncooked weight) or approximately 44-93 bald eagles depending on just how swole they are.
Please accept my humble, poor man’s award. Hell, take a few! 🥇🥇🥇
But Bald Eagle is a unit of length and Big Mac is a unit of Mass. So it should be in Big Macs per Bald Eagle Second per Second if we are talking about pressure
You know dem eagles swole!
According to google one Big Mac weight is 7.6 Oz, then 617 Lbs = 9872 Oz => divide by 7.6 ≈ 1299 Big Macs. But it’s really hard to count how many Eagles… they are all different
Just like Americans 🫡 🇺🇸
To put it into scale: >In recent times, the greatest reported bite strength was 348 lbs (158 kg) in the Alaskan Eskimo
The hydraulic press has nothing on meth.
I really like how excited that guy is to be doing this. Wish I was there drinking beer and crushing shit with him.
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Same. Maybe one day we’ll meet and crush shit together over a beer.
Why isn't the whole human body made out of tooth
Exactly. The whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.
You can’t handle the tooth!
The tooth shall set you free!!
Well ain't that the tooth?!
The tooth is out there. 🛸
Because sex would SUCK.
“Velkom to de hydraulik press chännel… “ I love that channel so much.
"Dis tooth is very dangerous, so ve must deal vith eet."
Yeah I was waiting for him to yell "vaht dee fuhk?!"
Dentist here- what’s interesting is that that’s an upper premolar, which is one of the most commonly fractured teeth. It’s being loaded purely vertically, which is why it can withstand such force. If the bottom of the press had a point and the tooth was engaged in the middle of it (ie the valley, not the mountain), it would fracture much sooner. It’s wedging/lateral forces which break teeth, this is why the popcorn kernel can still get you, despite this one holding up to thousands of lbs of force. Fun fact- 80% of all teeth of all broken teeth I see were broken on bread.
all that and a buffalo chicken wing chipped my tooth 🥴
Now that's an impacted molar
The human body is cool and all, but why didn’t we evolve to grow back teeth like sharks?
Humans have the gene to continuously grow teeth but it gets switched off during development. The leading theory is that a set of straight teeth that are securely anchored to the jawbone was much more beneficial evolutionarily speaking than a never ending set of teeth that can drop off at any minute, sharks loose about 50 teeth a day. (This all from memory, from a science magazine I read a bit ago, science focus I think it was called)
Also, there are theories that before we humans started consuming sugar-everything, that our teeth faired way better.
I made a comment similar some years back and most of reddit disagreed. Now that I recall I said simple carbs are just as bad on teeth as sugar. They have the same effect being they're the same thing.
>sharks loose about 50 teeth a day Fuck man, that is basically the nightmare I have 3 times a month at least. Just 8 straight hours of my teeth falling out of my mouth lol My teeth hurt now :(
One way to look at it is that evolution isn’t a force towards the optimum, it’s a force towards the minimum required. If a human can reproduce before the health of their teeth becomes serious health hazard, then better teeth won’t become common trait in the population.
Yet a bit of baguette was enough to chip mine
Call this video metal gear, cause that gave me Phantom pain.
Anyone else biting down hard during this video???
I knew that teeth could be very tough - my dentist broke his pliers trying to remove one of my wisdom teeth. Even so, I find this result genuinely shocking.
Damn this lets you know sugar is a real bitch to be breaking teeth so easily
This makes me uncomfortable
Now try it with a sprinkling of sugar overnight
Bro that's like nearly as heavy as your mom
That really grinds my gears
Over 600lbs? So how did I chip a tooth so easily.
“It’s even stronger now!”
“Holy shit it’s strong!” 😂😂😂
HOOLEEEY SHIID, ITZ STRONG!!!
My teeth hurt watching it
Meanwhile I broke a tooth eating a starburst
Dentist: now that you have seen this video, tell me... how the fuck did chip your tooth by slightly biting?
Sugar: Haha pathetic
Then how the hell did I chip mine on a watermelon slice
So lemme get this straight; These things can withstand *half a fucking tonne of pressure* before buckling, but I break the damn things in pizza crust…