3rd time. And it feels like a big one, so the dentist can handle it. I have scratched one out before. Reason from my research seems to be poor dental hygiene, but I swear I spend 20 minutes a night on my damn shitty teeth. First a swollen sore gum, then I feel the piece coming thru.
I never got past algebra.
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Bone slivers, never heard about that from my prof. In school. But I may have missed it, I cut that class often!
Seriously, though, have you had an extraction in that spot?
Nope, maybe years and years ago, but they show up in different spots.
Have you broken a tooth there? My daughter had her wisdom teeth removed. Apparently the oral doc. broke one as it was coming out. She had several bone fragments work out after that. One large one was quite painful, and the dentist had to get it all the way out.
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I never got past algebra./QUOTE]
Holidays with the family. I have Psych 101 coming out the wazoo.
**DummyGladHands **- I apologize for quickly responding to your serious question with a joke. Bad form on my part. Happy holidays!
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Your derivative joke really approached the limits.
Ouch.
Also, the dental problem sounds painful. (((DummyGladHands)))
OK, I’m still not getting what the mistake was. Calculus is a typo for… what? Calcium?
Calculus is really hard dental plaque. Less a typo than riffing on an alternative definition.
While I don’t know if calculus deposits are what the OP is experiencing, but that’s the joke at least.
Do you floss every day? Because that’s integral to preventing calculus buildup.
I’ve had one, a thin disk flake about 6 mm in diameter, that appeared some time after bruising my gum badly there. One face was glossy and one rough with a texture like cut foam rubber.
Would dental plaque come through the tissue of the gums? Seems preposterous.
A calculus is a small rock. That’s still what it means in medicine: Small rocks like kidney stones or tartar or other hard mineral deposits in the body. (They’re not like rocks, they are rocks. A concretion of tartar is a rock.) This is related to math in that people used small rocks to count with, before the invention of the abacus, or the portable rocks-on-sand device. From there, we get the mathematical meaning of the term, as (integral and differential) calculus is “advanced counting” as a professor of mine used to say, and the origin of calculation is even more obvious.
I’ve had this or something similar happen before, but it was due to a molar that had been filled as a teenager that ended up breaking (probably from me chewing ice all the time) and when the dentist was attempting extraction it shattered.
Try as she might, there was one sliver still in the gum that she couldn’t retrieve, but she told me it was within some acceptable limit size-wise. It slowly worked its way out over several months, but it was quite sharp and I cut the tip of my tongue on it many times worrying at it. You know how that goes. It’s like getting some popcorn in your teeth. You just can’t stop futzing with it until it comes out.
When I was studying math in college, I had calculus coming out my ears.
I don’t know whats inside a gum boil, but it sounds like you had one and dug out whatever it is. Normally, with decent dental hygiene, they shrink themselves after a month or so.
I had this as well. 4 years after post-wisdom-tooth dry sockets. I went to a periodontist who told me this would keep happening forever if I didn’t get a surgery for it. I got the surgery and congratulated myself for only waiting 4 years to fix a serious gum problem.
I flossed this morning, and a big ol’ d/dx came unstuck from between my lower left molars.