I grew up just before cities added fluoride to water. So, I got cavities and amalgam dental fillings. Thirty years later those fillings go bad and get replaced with crowns. I just had a huge amalgam dental filling replaced because x-rays showed decay under it. Another crown and thankfully I don’t think a root canal is needed. It’s just a little sensitive to cold.
Any sort of sticky caramel candy is out of the question for me. No more milk duds, sugar daddy, or Bit-O-Honey candy. EVER! Carmel Apple at the fair? :dubious: Are you insane? No way. I’m not risking my crowns. That caramel will rip a crown right off the tooth.
No more slushies or Icees either. Goes right through a crown and into the nerve of my tooth. I can drink soda with ice. But that ice better not touch my crown or it will nearly take the top of my head off.
Thankfully I don’t have any bridge work (yet). I can still eat popcorn.
How about you? Has your dental work forced you to stop eating or drinking certain foods?
I have 2 crowns. Cold foods are a little bit of a problems for me but I really have to avoid mixing hot and cold. At Olive Garden the other day I had to choose: Soup first (hot) or salad (cold) because I couldn’t stand switching.
Yup - I was raised in a town without fluoride, too, and I have the teeth made of chalk to show for it. Between root canals, crowns, sensitive teeth, and breaking teeth, I avoid foods that might break my teeth and cold foods.
ETA: I forgot the sticky foods, too - only soft caramel, not the chewy kind. I hate switching between hot and cold foods, too - my teeth actually throb when I do that.
I hadn’t thought about switching between hot/cold. I can see where that would be a problem.
Root canals don’t always fix sensitivity problems either. I have one tooth with a root canal. It took away the throbbing pain. But years later the tooth sometimes bothers me along the gum line. gets a little sore.
We still got it better than a hundred years ago. Dentistry has improved a lot. Most of the time I’m pain free. Once in awhile cold will get a tooth hurting.
Hasn’t changed me much at all, but for a while when I was getting a serious amount of work done (7 cavities this year!), I had a hard time with a lot of things.
When I wore braces as a kid I couldn’t have hard or sticky candy, or gum.
I got two crowns, my bottom back molar on each side. Before the crowns, I had pressure and cold sensitivity on the left side. After the crowns (no root canals - teeth are otherwise intact), there was some hot/cold sensitivity for about a month. After that first month - they feel like regular teeth, and all the sensitivity has gone. I now crunch away at the crunchiest kettle chips and corn chips and popcorn with abandon, and hot and cold is no problem, either. Hot soup with iced tea? Yes, please.
My dentist gave me plenty of warning about crunchy/sticky foods with my temporary crowns, but has no such warnings for the permanent ones. I was given special instructions how to floss the temps, but I’m supposed to floss these permanents the same way I floss everything else. If that wouldn’t be a risk to popping one off, I don’t know what would. My teeth are very tight and the floss sort of “pops” in and out. I did go ahead with gold crowns, as with my clenching and grinding they have the most longevity over porcelain. Maybe that’s also a difference in long-term care?
While I’m not much of a taffy or sticky caramel eater, I have had both with no problems, but it’s not like I eat them even monthly, really. Twizzlers and Swedish Fish are about as sticky as I get.
When I first got my crown, my dentist gave me no after care instructions and I avoided sticky, tacky, gummy stuff. Several years later I went to a different dentist, and he told me there were absolutely no restrictions on what I could eat.
So it’s back to eating anything caramelly, and chewing gum.
I have a fixed bridge, and eat popcorn. The hulls sometimes get stuck, but floss or my Water Pik take care of any remainders.
I also have veneers and avoid nuts, very hard candies, caramel apples, and crusty bread. Oh, and not food, but I was warned not to bite my nails, either. Luckily, I don’t. After the cash my teeth have cost, I am VERY careful
Just got my perm crown today. I was told I can eat normally, unlike with my temp crown. My other crown had hot sensitivity for a few weeks after the procedure, but it went away.
I have always had crappy teeth. Always been cavity prone. The only time after I got my braces off at 14 I didn’t have issues with my teeth was about 5 months later, my dentist was working on the Eastman coating for teeth and I was one of the guinea pigs. Whatever the plastic coating was kept me cavity free for about 5 years before it finally wore off the tooth surface. I would kill to have it done again. Oddly enough, I still have all of my teeth … I am a conscientious brusher/flosser.
I have always been temperature sensitive, and the idea of chewing ice or ice cream makes me want to scream in pain. mrAru is an inveterate ice chewer, and any time he forgets and starts chewing ice around me I whack him gibbs-style.
The crappy teeth runs in the family - my brother always wondered why eating something that was essentially straight sugar made his teeth hurt. Made me glad that I am into salt/vinegar/sour stuff instead of sugary.
I have one tooth in the bottom front that worries me, so I do tend to be careful. When I could have afforded to have it fixed, the dentist wanted to use human tissue or gum or whatever from a donor. I could not bring myself to do it.
So, for me, it’s actually the lack of care that has me not eating caramels.
Having been blessed with good Koori teeth and born into a world of plentiful flouridey water, I have had ne’er an ache or a filling and I weep for you all.
Here’s a photo:
(And just to piss you off, I’ve never flossed either.)
I’ve got braces - fixed clear brackets on each tooth with a wire forcing movement, top and bottom. Nothing sticky, chewy, crunchy or staining. I don’t drink coffee or red wine, and I don’t care so much about crunchy foods - an Apple would just destroy them - but lack of curry is killing me. I miss it so much!
Other than the fact I would happily shovel down a thali at any time, this is the best decision ever. It’s costing a buttload, but totally worth it. 3 months in and I can see changes.
I can drink soda with ice. But that ice better not touch my crown or it will nearly take the top of my head off.
