![]() Now get off my lawn!ĭid you know that until 1977, the production and distribution of soft-core CP was completely legal in America? And did you further know that until the early 1980's, prosecutions for pederasty were virtually non-existent? The perps were ostracized, and with any luck, they faced some degree of informal justice at the hands of their victims' families. ![]() And let me tell you, they don't make "terrible childhoods" anymore like they did in my day. Your recent post history reveals that you are 26 or 27. Well, thanks for that sage advice, old-timer. Best of luck, all!įair Warning: Completely Off-Topic Controversial Subject Matter Trigger Warning: Everything, and All That Jazz I'll try to think of something, and any further input would be most welcome. It turns out ignorance really is bliss, but I do now grasp the gravity of the matter. Maybe I could take out one of those "Strictly Platonic" Craigslist ads- "SWM seeks dentist for long walks on the beach, pinochle, and drinking ourselves into a coma together until I feel I know you well enough for you to stick a stainless-steel hook which tapers to a needle's point into my mouth without me bolting and leaving a me-shaped hole in your wall like in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. I do try to do unto others rather better than they've done unto me, so I don't think I'll go that route. It's a pretty rotten thing to do to the poor dentist, especially, as is unlikely but definitely possible, that things break bad. To be sure, there is always the expedient of simply lying about it. No responsible medical professional would sedate or anesthetize an alcoholic (in the clinical sense of chemical dependency) to treat a condition that won't cause problems for years to come. What I'm saying is that a LOT of plaque calculus somehow got magically changed to the consistency of a thickish eggshell, and I removed it with a fingernail and a disposable plastic butter knife. Now it's up one side and down the other from top to bottom no problem. Day before yesterday, flossing past a certain point was impossible. For example, I had absolutely no idea the gaps between those teeth were so wide. But what the appearance is mostly is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. The appearance is hardly movie-star quality, but it's really not too bad- I see much worse on the street every day, and on people far younger than me. So, with only a fingernail and a plastic knife to get between my teeth, I've removed all (much, but not enough) of it. I almost effortlessly popped a much larger chunk off. I looked in the mirror and saw I could get a fingernail under it now. Yesterday, out of nowhere, a bit of it broke off. My front four teeth on my lower jaw were- WERE- covered from the gum about two-thirds up with a single "mass" of plaque (calculus, as it turns out). I brush and floss but of course that only goes so far. I haven't been to a dentist in close to forty years. A stranger poking around inside my mouth with sharp metal objects is completely out of the question- sorry. I don't care to be touched even by people I know and trust, and I detest being touched by strangers. My question: how hazardous is it to chip tartar off of my own teeth this way? I'm a regular brusher and flosser but it always builds up between my two bottom teeth because at their root they are rather far away from each other while they are pressed firmly against each other at the top, so it is hard for dentists to clean it with the pick, but I just realized that I can get it using my knife if I am very careful in a mirror and use both hands to hold the knife close to the end of the blade.I had a pretty brutal childhood. It was very brittle and yellowish and underneath my teeth were shiny white! Well I got a bit compulsive and I took a very sharp knife to it and was able to scrape off a HUGE chunk of the yellow stuff. At first I was very worried about tooth damage before I realized it must be tartar, the stuff the dentist cleans off at my cleanings. Today I realized that the yellow stuff between my two front yellow teeth was actually tartar because I was flossing and it chipped and felt very grainy.
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