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0 pointsWorkaccount21y ago0 comments

I'm the same as your wife.

I skipped the dentist for 18 years, and during the earlier part of that span I had pretty sparse dental habits. I went in expecting the worst, but I had 1 cavity, and it was shallow enough to be drilled no novocaine. Nowadays I just brush once a day.

Thank you for letting me brag, because the other parts of my body, like heart and lungs, are total shit.

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k__1y ago· 1 in thread

Same.

My ADHD makes brushing my teeth daily impossible. Yet, I went to the dentist today (first time after a decade)and had only one small cavity.

My partner on the other hand brushes multiple times daily and had surgery last year, because she had a particulary bad cavity.

Some dentist say, they don't kiss their kids, so they don't infect them with the cavity bacteria, but I kiss my partner all the time for decades and my teeth never got worse from it.

There were times when I drank energy drinks and ate sweet snacks daily, didn't make it worse either.

culi1y ago

> Some dentist say, they don't kiss their kids, so they don't infect them with the cavity bacteria, but I kiss my partner all the time for decades and my teeth never got worse from it.

This seems absurd. Almost all microbes we consume (including in supplements) are transient. It takes a LOT for a community to actually establish itself. They have to be pretty well adapted to the human oral environment

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