# My tooth is driving me loopy!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tooth-is-driving-me-loopy/362196>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 26, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tooth-is-driving-me-loopy/362196 "2006-06-26T13:40:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tooth-is-driving-me-loopy/362196/1 "2006-06-26T13:40:21Z")

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One of my molars (to be precise, bottom left side, number three from the back) has either had a small piece chipped off or had part of a filling fall out. It now has a sharp and kind of pointy corner that I keep poking my tongue into, and it just feels… wrong. There’s no pain, it’s just incredibly annoying. It’s driving me positively nuts. Now, there’s no way I can afford going to the dentist right now. Those guys may fix your teeth, but they charge an arm and a leg, and I need the full use of all my limbs at the moment.

I guess what I need is something to distract me. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tooth-is-driving-me-loopy/362196/2 "2006-06-26T13:59:14Z")

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I’ve heard you can get parrafin wax to put on it, so you won’t cut your tongue anymore.

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**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tooth-is-driving-me-loopy/362196/3 "2006-06-26T18:39:41Z")

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Man I hate that. It seems impossible to keep your tongue off. I’ve found it takes something like 3 days to get use to the change. Do you have a regular dentist? Why not call and ask if they can do something low-cost for you? Maybe if it’s just a little chip they could smooth it out for you a little? It’s worth a try?

Get your tongue off of that!

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tooth-is-driving-me-loopy/362196/4 "2006-06-26T23:45:45Z")

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I say **get it fixed now**! I had the same thing happen, and ignored it – sure, it’s pointy at first, but it soon wears down a little and/or you get used to it, so you leave it – and of course it provides an entry point for infection in the end. Two years later, suddenly an abscess popped up and I ended up having to have root canal on it. (Root canal doesn’t hurt, BTW, except in the wallet ☹ )

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-tooth-is-driving-me-loopy/362196/5 "2006-06-26T23:53:10Z")

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You can get temporary fillings at the drug store that could help. They’re relatively cheap.