My Dentist Horror Stories | Art + Storytime

[@nimauradrakestone]

In the dental field, you rapidly adapt to patients talking to you with stuff in their mouth. There is a VERY big chance he knew EXACTLY what you said to him

[@TheStarfishface]

NOOOOO DON’T DO THIS TO MEEEEE

[@nimauradrakestone]

@Jay Blue When you're so deep in a conversation, I don't think you fully realize all that's going on. 🤷‍♀️ Though there are some that just think it's funny when a patient gives them a look when they try to initiate conversation during that

[@g0d.loves.y0u]

I KNEW THAT'S HOW IT WORKED!

[@link7667]

@@TheStarfishface dang that’s embarrassing

[@lizzy-janeross6737]

​@@TheStarfishface On the plus side, he was focused on fixing your teeth, and he might not have been listening. But also 'insert screaming noise here'.

[@samspam1182]

Fun fact! Teeth aren't bones, they're mainly keratin and some other stuff. I'm very thankful to have mostly normal teeth, as regular checkups/cleanings easily put me into panic mode

[@nez_ic]

Teeth do contain keratin, but they're mostly made up enamel and dentin

[@joshuawinter7483]

Yeah there actually origins

[@deb2281]

🤓

[@samspam1182]

@@deb2281 Reasonable response lol

[@myhandleisdash]

@@deb2281 that just makes it way obvious it sounds so detailed and factual that you can't handle it with your small brain.

[@quizcastle]

I have never once been more grateful for the 2-3ish years of braces I just got over with WOW Also “curse you sexy dentist” is the funniest thing I’ve heard today-

[@lolli_popples]

Oh my god... the teeth falling out at school dream... ITS ACTUALLY REAL

[@Cthulus_left_tentacle]

During a test!!

[@Lilywithcatears]

One of my baby teeth got cracked into three pieces, and when the adult tooth grew in, one of the pieces just... went out into my gums. *it's still in there.*

[@stencilfox5]

It’s actually scary what teeth can do if you don’t take care of them , this includes the uncomfortable fact of gum disease, blood and rot in one’s mouth , sore and having all your teeth just fall out or break apart , and then there’s those wisdom teeth that like to push your teeth together cause we don’t need them anymore and they have to be extracted 😅

[@JacquelineEsch]

Yeah, if I didn’t have a surgery on my mouth, then I would’ve had a tooth grow into my nose because it was growing up

[@Blank-rv6xv]

The gold stash joke landed with me😂, you could also say "they wanted to add a draw bridge to my mouth😄😅😁".

[@bobolobocus333]

I had a literal dental nightmare where my teeth turned to blood whilst I was at school.

[@mozzapple]

I got a chain on my tooth too! It was because one of my adult teeth was trying to grow into the wrong spot, so they had to force it to the front of my mouth and attach a brace to it to force it to grow in right. Honestly the worst part was getting it tightened, the surgery didn't hurt at all and the stitches fell out on their own

[@HonkYeahArson]

Once my dentist didn't numb my face enough so i could FEEL THEM DRILLING INTO MY TEETH AND IT HURT LIKE CRAZY- ...yeah now i am absolutely terrified of the dentist.

[@JacquelineEsch]

I remember me screaming on the way back from my mouth surgery it hurt so bad

[@henryhere]

That was literally every time i ever went to the dentist as a kid. I didn't even know they were supposed to drug you so much that you didn't feel anything until i was 15 and finally got it done right

[@zzitchy]

Damn, I feel that, in my country its not obligatory to numb your mouth for certain teeth surgeries and I needed a root canal plus 3 fillings so you know how that ended!

[@WishfulThinkingArt]

I got my first cavity when I was ten, and my dentist did give me numbing medicine, but he did not numb the spot on my gum where he injected it. After that, I was so traumatized that I would freak out about getting cavities. It was only when I learned that not getting numbed on your gum beforehand is a rare thing that I stopped worrying as much.

[@xoderota]

I actually hated the injections more than the drilling so after a few times I asked them to not use those

[@TheStarfishface]

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[@lizamoonblooded4196]

For some reason I can't comment, but I have a really funny thing that happens every time I go to the dentist. I can fall asleep while they're working on my teeth. I've had good dentist experiences so maybe that's why I'm like this, but dentists will shine a bright light in your face and heat mixed in with bright light makes me so tired I fall asleep. I don't know of anyone who does this and I wanted to comment, but I can’t comment. I hope you've found this funny or ridiculous because I certainly do.

[@mewwkigacha1749]

your art inspires me so much star ok thats all i needed to say

[@artist_or_smt]

This is a nice comment ☺️☺️

[@jessrh24]

I honestly love tooth trauma stories just because they’re somewhat relatable aha, here’s mine: When I was 6 years old, I was running around in the school playground with my friends. There was a second mini-playground for the youngest children, separated by a metal fence. As I was running past said fence, I failed to see the legs sticking out of it. (A boy was sitting in the mini-playground with his legs sticking out under the fence). I tripped over his legs and fell face-first into the concrete, smashing my two front ADULT teeth. It took many, many trips to the dental hospital over the course of 5 years to build them back up. Even though my teeth aren’t perfect, my dentists did a great job and I’m on the list for a free set of crowns when I’m at least 21 😆

[@ShelbyLikesStuff]

6:10 “My humour isn’t that bad!” Things I find incredibly funny:

[@rubellaumbrella112]

You are super good at drawing

[@CreativeCrafts-vu9ld]

(@ 5:29) I’m sorry, but HOW did you just PERFECTLY describe my braces experience!? 😂😂😂

[@rebekahlarsen7691]

I saw a video on tik tok where someone pointed out that brushing our teeth is the only time we clean our skeleton

[@PiruuMi]

I had what is called a Palate Extender in my mouth for a year, which is like this thing that goes on the roof of your mouth and connected to your molars and everyday someone has to take a key to it and crank it. It meant for people with tiny palates due to mouth breathing, it was literal torture. My mouth was in pain constantly for a whole year and then after that I got braces, they also tried to fix my overbite with those stupid elastics. When the 5 year mark hit and they couldn't get it to fix I had to tell them that I saw a doctor and the doctor told me I need jaw surgery to fix my overbite, and then they were like Oh okay and took off my braces.

[@ginniegill1026]

This makes me feel lucky that I've never needed any kind of braces or tooth work besides a couple of fillings

[@corvigae]

I have. *so many* teeth problems. First of all, I also am missing the same incisors, and they talked about doing the same thing to me that they did you you, but my family was poor and I wasn't too enthused about the whole thing, so I just went without, and while it does definitely look odd and sorta vampire-ish, my teeth DID eventually just kinda shift into a normal-ish spacing on their own, so it's not like I have two gaping holes and the front of my mouth. Unfortunately I apparently have naturally EXTREMELY soft and thin enamel, though, so I'm particularly susceptable to cavities. Just. So many goddamn cavities. Enough that I'm at least 90% convinced actually that my dentist was making up and/or exaggerating some of them in order to milk us for extra money, because this dude was just ALWAYS saying stuff was necessary when it really, *really* wasn't. He also wasn't always fantastic at doing his job, either, because once I had a tooth that got chipped, and he'd told me that it needed to be crowned, and he drilled away about half of the amount of the tooth he'd need to affix a crown, and then he suddenly changed his mind and was like "Nah actually that can just be a filling instead," and he filled it. And then not even a week later I was eating dinner and suddenly realized that the filling was just. Gone. It'd unaffixed itself from my tooth and left a gaping hole in my tooth where it'd been. So I had to go BACK to get it replaced, and since I had to wait like a week because I was away at college in another city at the time, he had to drill even MORE of the tooth away to add the new filling, and told me that if it ever gave me trouble again it'd just have to be extracted, because there wasn't enough natural tooth left to crown it. You know, like *HE SAID HE'D DO IN THE FIRST PLACE.* He's one of the many reasons I absolutely HATE the dentist's, now. ALSO, most traumatically, some of my wisdom teeth - particularly the ones at the top of my mouth, where the missing incisors were - seemed to grow in relatively fine and unobsctructed, which appeared lovely for me...until suddenly one day one just. *Crumpled apart in my mouth* while I was brushing my teeth. Apparently there must've been some problem with it that didn't appear obvious, and it had developed an abscess or something. So I ended up having to have the broken bottom half of that tooth extracted from my face along with the rest of my more problematic wisdom teeth. And finally, for the tooth-horror story that's at least a little funny now in hindsight - my mom was always really big on making creative homemade costumes for us for Halloween instead of paying for store-bought costumes (this is relevant I swear), and one year my best friend and I painted big boxes that fit over our whole bodies and went trick or treating as giant dominos. It was kinda cute, but the problem with the big boxy costumes was that it was kinda hard to get your hands out in front of you. This was immediately a problem when I tripped while running on pavement and fell forward. Because of the two facts that I couldn't get my arms out in front of me as I was falling, and that I have a slight overbite, I ended up not only planting my face into the concrete, but I caught myself *on my two front teeth.* Not only was the initial fall painful as hell, but I managed to actually snap my two adult front teeth wholly *in half.* Luckily we were able to get an emergency dentist appointment the next day, and they basically just sculpted on false versions of the bottom halves of those teeth and I've literally never had a problem with them, and as brutal an experience it was, I can't help but find the mental image of a child dressed like a domino falling flat on her face with her arms frantically pinwheeling as she tries to get them in front of her rectangular little body kinda funny.

[@neatoburrito3170]

Ugh, having thin enamel is the worst, especially considering the general population's education on genetic differences in dental health and the fact that some of those differences MASSIVELY cripple the typical "just brush and floss and avoid sugar" habits' effectiveness is... outdated. I'll just say it's outdated. I also think it probably contributes to the high number of dishonest and/or incompetent dentists that are still allowed to work; following bare-bones, pre-school-level oral health education rules is enough for most people to avoid decay, so they're rarely in the line of fire of dentist' poor workmanship or exploitation to begin with and assume that people who do all those pre-school oral health things meticulously but have bad teeth anyway must be lazy, slovenly liars as a result . Their dental cleanings all go smoothly, so they assume that level of competence must extend to more challenging, invasive and *ahem*, lucrative procedures as well, so bad dentists get to continue hurting the people who actually need them and flying under the radar of those who would honestly probably survive without them. Sorry you've had such challenges with your dental health and that they were exacerbated by that dentist. Stuff like this is infuriatingly common, and I hope people will wake up and start holding the industry and its sadly large number of bad eggs accountable.

[@Kat_dragon]

Everyone has crazy stories. Mine? By brother flooded the entire downstairs of my house on Christmas.

[@momtaylor3169]

Of course the people love your horror stories- you make them sound very funny 😂 but in all seriousness teeth can be a real pain, I think I have an extra tooth and I don’t know what the heck to do about it 😰

[@indesomniac]

Gosh I thought I had dental horror stories - when I was a kid, my teeth started rotting too fast and i had to be put under and have shiny silver crowns put on all of my baby teeth, and when I needed braces I needed a set of premolars removed before I could get them because I didn’t have the room - I swallowed too much blood during the procedure and threw it up when I got home 🥴. Had the braces for 3 years and I still have an overbite and my bottom row is all shuffled again.

[@Emanimations08]

Wow that's some hell of a crazy story! I had all my baby teeth removed at the dentist ahead of time [instead of them falling out naturally or having them removed at home my me or my parents], I had to have 4 permanent teeth removed and I currently wear fixed braces, but now I see that's nothing compared to you! 😳 Also LOVE THE WAY YOU DRAW LINES AND THE WAY YOU SHADE AND RENDER AA✨ I started reading your webtoon and I subscribed hehe✨

[@electrofonickitty823]

Well....I can tell you my best friend in high school had to have her jaw broken and her teeth reset. I felt bad because she had to have her jaw wired shut for a month or two. My sister and I both had to have our wisdom teeth removed a week after Christmas of my Junior year. Oh and er....I am an utter klutz so I actually hurt my tongue with the stitches for my wisdom teeth.

[@starlunakitsube]

I HAD THE SAME ISSUE WITH ONE OF MY ADULT TEETH FUSED WITH MY JAW. Not for the same reason, but yeah I had the same thing. They exposed the tooth, chipped it away from my jaw, and attached it to the braces.

[@tomobred]

9:49 aaa me too! i wish i couldve kept my lil fangs though, they were cute

[@Hootowlsonly]

As a kid I also had a tooth that never came up. The dentists proposed the same chain solution but my parents didn't really have the money at that time and we didn't have a dental plan so we just said "nah". It's still stuck down there in the roots of my other teeth and years later when I had to get more dental work done, they just kinda looked at it, said "eh, if it hasn't bothered you in that long, it's probably fine," and now I'm just forever short an adult tooth

[@LocalPest]

I will now be calling my person a corporeal flesh suit due to this video

[@homerroofing1]

"mid-evil dental tortue" i went to go look up what types of torture involved teeth back then after i heard that. ill update this soon once i read the thing

[@CasperCanvas]

5:21 I actually have that gold chain right now! It’s unbelievably painful when they shorten it, and it can curt my lips sometimes, but it’s goons be over in a year or two.👍

[@MANIC-09]

The fact that I am currently going through like all of these procedures is insane

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

Apparently, teeth falling out is a really common anxiety dream. It's both gently horrifying and darkly funny that you experienced it for real

[@TheBlackBullets01]

I've also had a bit of tooth fall out long after my wisdom teeth surgry.

[@bobbingi201]

Man I thought I had it rough, I only had 2 years of braces, a while of an appliance for my overbite (this appliance had screws that tore up my whole mouth) another year or two of braces, wisdom tooth removal which was interesting because I was missing a wisdom tooth but had a weird extra tooth in my front lower jaw. Later they removed one of my lower front teeth because apparently my mouth is too crowded to have all of my teeth straight. I still have the perma wire on my teeth and I hope it do what yours did

[@SparksArtandCosplay]

8:40 Fun fact about my incisors is that they were almost completely turned 90° the wrong way, so that the smooth part was facing towards my two front teeth and they were hidden halfway behind them! Long story short braces were extremely painful! 😣

[@disodosid]

10 outta 10 loved it! i should remind my future self to make a Dentist Horror Story video XD

[@catsupy]

Ahh! I had such a similar dental experience as you, including the surgery to drag a tooth with a chain! I had braces for 6 years, had to wear a "helmet" at night to correct my bite! I was at risk of losing all 4 of my top front teeth due to impaction, and at one point had to have 6 teeth extracted in one sitting because they WOULDN'T FALL OUT ON THEIR OWN. So stubborn! My case was so extreme, my orthodontist actually used my case for conferences around the world. My teeth are beautiful now, but my lips are asymmetrical due to how bad my mouth was before.

[@silverscorpio24]

When I was little my baby teeth had trouble falling out to make way for my adult teeth. One day at the checkup my dentist told my parents that this one stubborn tooth would have to be removed at my next appointment if it didn't come out on its own. I was so sick of getting numbed up with the painful needle that that night I took my dad's smallest pair of pliers and spent *30 minutes* (ish) prying that tooth out of my jaw myself. It came out. And I was dancing with joy with my dad's pliers and a bloody tooth and a red hole in my mouth when my parents came in with the most bewildered and astonished faces I ever saw.

[@NoahPopejoy]

I had that same procedure where they grind down your teeth and put temporary ones on before getting like the replacement caps. But when I got them, they told me to put the food directly in the back of my mouth and to only eat soft, non-chewy foods.

[@TheDerpSociety]

Odd story: I was missing my top two canine teeth as well but they were replaced by my wisdom teeth

[@KaitLikesCats]

And now my teeth hurt. Thanks lol Beautiful art as always!

[@notracestudios]

I just want you to know, this video started playing randomly and unexpectedly on my phone and scared the crap out of me 😂

[@Me_I-cartoons]

Your art is sooo good

[@SketchySquirrel]

This is not the virst youtube video I've seen talking about dentist stories, so I thought. "Oh this looks like a fun video" but I was not prepaired for how messed up your teeth have been, and how messed up they became as a result of the treatment. Great video, I'm glad that all seems well now, and thank you :D

[@lumc1754]

I had only half of one of my baby teeth in my mouth for over a year and just recently it fell out. I'm pretty sure I was in class taking notes and I was wiggling it around and it just popped out.

[@ramo3169]

I developed an intense phobia of needles as a toddler which, in my tweens, made getting my first cavities filled basically impossible because I couldn't physically stop myself from recoiling and thrashing around when they tried to inject numbing into my gums, even despite trying very hard to control myself and rationally knowing it wasn't going to be that bad. After two or three unsuccessful visits to the dentist I finally told him to just drill it without any numbing, which he did. It was successful and I got those cavities filled, but the pain was so extreme it cured me of my needle phobia, which is great because now I'm only very afraid of needles, and can control myself and get shots and vaccines and stuff. The needle phobia was replaced with a phobia of the dental drill for a while, but my dentist would prescribe me valium for visits and gradually that has reduced to only a controllable fear after repeated fillings WITH numbing, not being able to feel the drill lol. Despite all this I actually like going to the dentist, because my teeth are really soft and I have gotten tons of cavities over the years. It's always a relief to go to the dentist and get that stuff taken care of, or better yet get a good cleaning and be told there's no problems that need to be drilled. This video makes me need to go floss right now lmao

[@EmrysLlewellyn-ECLEC]

Fun fact: Fossil records for early vertebrate animals show teeth forming from vertebrae from the spine shifting up and into formations in the much in order to optimize chewing. That's part of the reason why teeth have so many sensitive nerves; the nerves would be used for communicating signals through the central nervous system; but after becoming teeth, there was no real use for all the nerves left over, so they just became pain receptors. Which is why toothaches and crap hurt so much. If god were real and had created life, he would have to had been blind and on 8 hits of LSD.

[@HarleyQuinn257]

I have had the nightmare about loosing your teeth when talking in school, so many times growing up. And it actually happened to you, in class, Im so sorry you poor thing! Hugs!

[@Wilfoe]

My mom had a bad experience at the dentist when she was younger, so she's very cautious about dentists now. I have always had good dentists and I always enjoyed the dentist. I do still have a few personal stories however. One of my molars came in with a cavity. I got scared the first time we went in to have it filled in so we canceled that appointment and the dentist gave me a demonstration of how the painkiller needle would feel with no painkiller. I was fine the second time the appointment was made. Unfortunately, none of my peers believed that a tooth could come in with a cavity and kept blaming me, saying it meant I wasn't brushing well enough. Back then, all my classmates knew of cavities was "It's a bad thing that happens to your teeth when you don't brush". I had braces for some period of time. The braces weren't that bad, but Mom did lie to me a few times to get me to agree to them. Still upset about that...When the orthodontist was taking the mold of my teeth before the braces, the mold thingy caught on one of my teeth. I kept trying to warn him and push his arm away, but he kept pushing. He wound up chipping one of my teeth. The response to this from my orthodontist and my dad was simply "Oh wow. Blood." One of my adult teeth when coming in, instead of pushing the baby tooth out, pushed it to the side. It was in there for a while and eventually decayed in my mouth, with tiny shards just breaking off now and then. It's all out now. It was an interesting experience while it lasted. Finally, I only had three wisdom teeth. I'm not the only member of my family who was missing wisdom teeth either. I had one removed relatively recently because it was partially poking out and was an infection risk. Opted to stay awake for it and just get novocaine because I've heard stories of permanent damage from being put under. On the subject of painkillers, I'm pretty much immune to most painkillers. Novocaine is the only one that has ever had any effect on me and even then, I needed twice as much as most people for this procedure. The other two wisdom teeth never breached the gums and are still in there. At my most recent dentist visit, my new dentist recommended that we get an MRI of one of them to see how much it's pressing on the molar in front of it to determine if it needs to be removed. That MRI hasn't happened yet, but I guess we'll see what happens. Thanks for sharing your stories!

[@Azenn_68]

5:11 I had the same thing when I had braces 😅

[@Benlucky13]

As a kid I never really yelped from pain, I just kind of tensed up quietly. the pediatric dentist insisted baby teeth did not need any numbing before drilling cavities. they also liked to count down from 10 as they drilled, assuring they'd stop at 0. after the 2nd or 3rd round of the slowest countdown imaginable, easily 5 or 10 seconds after saying "1", I was hurting. a lot. so I tried my best to hold out, death gripping the arm rests and sliding my feet near my butt to get as close to the fetal position as possible without moving my head or getting in the way. they noticed immediately, and instead of calling "0" and taking a break from drilling my unnumbed tooth, the assistant grabbed my legs and pinned my knees to the chair. the dentist continued drilling for at least another 30 seconds before allowing any break, however temporary.

[@meredithfangman2898]

I lost a fight with a hammer at 4 years old it smashed into my head knocking 3 or 4 teeth out of my mouth.

[@meredithfangman2898]

I'm fine now lol

[@artist_or_smt]

WAIT WHAT HOW DID IT HAPPEN?!?😳

[@meredithfangman2898]

@@artist_or_smt my brother who at the time was 13 I think, he wanted to build a birdhouse, so he claimed up a tree and hung the tools on a lower branch and I wanted to play with the hammer and I was too short to get to it so I jumped and tried to knock it off and it fell into my head. (To be clear the hard part that is used to smash things was pointed down towards me)

[@artist_or_smt]

@@meredithfangman2898 OOF that sounds painful😬

[@meredithfangman2898]

@@artist_or_smt it was XD

[@lukewarmmilk6499]

My brother had to get chains not too long ago to pull a tooth that didn't come in all the way down, so you're not the only one to need the chains.

[@TheNarrator497]

Ah yes. I must get 8 teeth pulled. This *definitely* helps with my nerves.

[@thermophile1695]

When I got my wisdom teeth removed, I took a two hour nap, played breath of the wild for the rest of the day, and was basically fine after that.

[@epicinthelibrary]

ahh the memories... i also had a chain attached to pull down an impacted canine, there was a whole contraption with a spring wedged between my molar & incisor to make sure there'd be room for it. tightening was always rough but hands down the worst part of the experience (and warning here for like. teeth horror) was this one appointment where like, i guess the tooth wasn't coming down quite fast enough so they just kind of. pulled it down some more?? i really don't know what exactly they were doing up in there but after that appointment i could definitely feel way more of the tooth with my tongue than i could beforehand which is pretty terrifying! it wasn't a surgery and there was no numbing OR warning beforehand so i was very upset and afraid and in pain the whole time- pretty fun stuff. the guy doing it said i was scaring him bc i had started crying halfway through and i was like Well What Did You Expect!!! This Sht Sucks™ on the bright side part of my whole mouth deal required moving my off-center jaw over so i had rubber bands going all across the front of my mouth and it was v fun to creep my friends out with that visual. and in the end i have rly nice teeth now so ig all that trauma was worth it! 🎉

[@Cthulus_left_tentacle]

Don't worry, Star, I've had the chain thing too. One of my upper canines started growing over my baby tooth, too impatient to wait until it was even loose I guess. My orthodontist ended up removing it along with my wisdom teeth, which honestly couldn't have been better timing. So then we waited for the adult tooth to come down, and it just...didn't? It was as if it was indignant that we rushed it then said "Well NOW I don't WANNA grow". Although I've never considered that it could have been lodged in my jaw. So my doctor attached the chain and dragged it down, bear in mind I already had braces so I looked super decked out with metal. I also still have a baby tooth too! One of my front molars doesn't have an adult tooth behind it, so I'm counting on it to never fall out 😣It's so weird right?? Like it's so much shallower and square and useless compared to the adult ones

[@SheepUnderwater]

I also have a top and bottom permanent retainer. It's stayed on well for the last 10 years with the exception of the one time I had really crunchy Popeye's chicken. It bent the wire and the glue popped off. It made my top teeth feel so freaking weird. I was able to see my previous orthodontist the next day and they bent and glued it back into place for about $25, not bad.

[@imagi_nati0n]

I actually had a chain in my mouth, too! I was born with cleft lip and palate, so my mouth was an orthodontist's playground for about 6 years 💀 (that's just for braces- I had a lot of stuff done beforehand bc it be like that) and one of my adult canines was lodged up in my mouth next to the gap in my upper jaw, so they had a chain attached to that tooth and it eventually came down

[@Sunnyflowerpuppy]

I was born with a cleft palate that cut into my gum line. It has caused one of the teeth where the cleft is to never grow and develop at all and one baby and it's adult counter part to be weird by growing in sideways as if someone grabbed them and turned them. When it was time to get the cleft palate fixed, there was a huge issue that cadavers are contaminated and are making people sick from the contaminated donated body parts. Since the cleft palate needed to be fixed sooner rather then later as baby teeth are already started to come out. It was decided that during surgery, they had to cut a tiny piece of my hip bone and move it into where the cleft palate is since it was much safer. After I have fully recovered from the surgery, I had to have braces for several years to fix my crooked teeth. After my teeth were fixed, I had to wear a retainer for a few more years until I have finished growing to put the crown in my mouth to fill in the empty spot in my teeth. I celebrated the fact that I don't need a retainer anymore by throwing the retainer away. Despite this, my premolars never created any kind of issue.

[@SilentSong123]

My teeth are so terrible have been since covid I hate the dentist one time I threw up cause of the smells.

[@katethevampire]

At least your dentist wasn't CRAZY. The dentist I had when I was a toddler got arrested because he was purposefully (and this is gonna get kinda gross and scary) pulling kids teeth out and messing up their mouths on purpose. I only ever went to him once or twice because my mom got the creeps from him but uh yeah, thanks Mom I guess for realizing he was a serial child abuser????

[@0dd_z0mbiecar]

I also had a chain on my tooth. My canine tooth was not growing in on it's designated spot and ended up eating the roots of my front tooth. So I had to go through a very painful surgery to get it surgically removed and they inserted that chain onto my canine. The canine now just sits where my front tooth used to be and I'm going to get it fixed sometime. You can barely notice it but if you look closely you can see it's pointier than the rest.

[@alexihavenoidea]

I had a chain (or something similar) put in my tooth too! For me it was because one of my teeth was growing in sideways so they had a surgery to uncover it, then attached a like spring (?) to it and a special bracket on my braces, which tightened over time to force the tooth to correct itself (its still permanently a lil crooked but wayy better now)

[@NadirEatsRocks]

For the most part my teeth are pretty healthy, but I do have one story! When I was young, I needed braces because my teeth were really crammed together. My family went to a highly recommended orthodontist for an estimate. This guy looked at my teeth and informed me that I needed to have my hard palate expanded. For the unaware, this would involve gluing a great big metal contraption to the roof of my mouth and slowly widening it so that it forced the two halves of my jaw bone apart. Obviously this was incredibly terrifying to young me, and my family immediately noped out. We went to a different orthodontist and two years of regular braces later, my teeth are perfectly fine.

[@halmoser]

I'm not sure if someone answered it- but I almost got a screw too! It was for my new because it's too short and needed to be dragged forward. I'm sure screws can be used for multiple tooth-duties, maybe it was something like that for you?

[@notspacegoat2000]

man I love the stories of her being in pain

[@WishfulThinkingArt]

Holy cow, I had the exact same surgery when I was a teenager, with the chain attaching to my braces and pulling an adult tooth! It looked absolutely gnarly with how jacked-up my teeth were, but it got the job done. Yikes, the screw in the jaw sounds scary, though!

[@toffepajja]

Oh the pain of not having perfect teeth. I had to use braces but before that, I had to manually use a spatula to bend my teeth in the "corret" angles. I hated it. I bit my parents so many times when they forced me to do it I've basically conditioned myself to bite at any fingers that come near my face.

[@xoderota]

Ngl, I'm kinda glad I'm not the only one who was stuck with braces for super long. They promised to take them off last december, now it looks like I'm gonna be stuck with them for another year .-.

[@luigiboi4244]

Compared to your Dentist/Orthodontist stories, mine are TAME. So I of course also had wonky teeth, but also a breathing problem because not only did I hate blowing my nose (it hurt every time), but apparently my gums and whatnot were swelling or something, so I constantly had to breathe through my mouth. Eventually I had my tonsils removed, which I think effected how my bottom jaw grew but more on that later. Secondly I had to get my wisdom teeth removed a few years ago. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but somehow my wisdom teeth have been split apart when growing in, (Thank you gums, I say sarcastically) so I basically had tooth shrapnel that had to be removed. The surgery was successful, and I had to spend a week at home due to the pain and the loopy gas that numbed the pain. Finally, as I eluded to before, my lower jaw grew in wonky! So the gist of it is that my lower jaw grew in lopsided, and now I have to undergo a risky surgery to basically 1. Strategically remove part of my jaw without damaging the nerves underneath (so think of an OREO: the outer bones are the OREO cookies and the nerves are the white cream thing.), 2. Space it out to the correct size, and 3.Fix my gliding jaw joints that hold my lower face together. It would have been done by now, but I’ve gone through 3 or so surgeons, 1 pandemic, and multiple school years and STILL HAVE YET TO UNDERGO THE SURGERY.

[@cookiechan7641]

Not my story and it’s super short and can be summarized in a few sentences. My mom has a bunch of autoimmune diseases that were caused by a mold infestation in our house when they first moved in and that autoimmune disease struck her teeth. This caused her teeth to quickly rot away and she’s always been embarrassed of her teeth and forgot how to smile while showing her teeth :( She recently just got her bottom row of teeth pulled and has temporary dentures and is getting the top row pulled in a month or so! She’s going to get permanent implants in around a year but we don’t have much money so it has to wait a while. And since I had happened to get all her food sensitivities (have to watch what I eat like crazy, was recently bedridden for a week because I ate too much gluten) I will probably end up with the same autoimmune diseases… she always tells me to take care of myself so that won’t be as likely to happen. Sorry about the kinda downer story but it’s what’s going on I’m my family right now! I hope you have a good day! (And P.S, my mom is relearning to smile with the teeth!)

[@DSprich]

Since I opted out of every dental procedure that wasn't an emergency, people can tell that I'm British just by the way my teeth look. 😂

[@ToontownAndCpenguin]

You reminded me of the time my permanent retainer came up, dunno what happened, the loop around one of the teeth just shot up when I was eating regular food. It was on the bottom by the way. I struggled to talk, could not eat anything, couldn't close my mouth, & was in pain so my mom called the office, at the time, I was going to a dentist for kids & they had an orthodontist section in the back so I could still see my regular dentist when I went in. Problem is, apparently everyone in the office takes their vacation at the same time & shuts down everything, they were away on a two week vacation & it just started when this happened. My mom got someone to come in but she was like an emergency line & she legally wasn't allowed to mess with it, she looked at it & was like "yeah, that's a problem but I can't do anything." I cried a lot because I was in pain & hearing that told me I would remain in pain for two weeks, I could barely even drink anything, I was terrified of being dehydrated, hungry, & in pain with a dry mouth because I couldn't even close my mouth. I'm unsure what was said since I was crying too much but I could hear my mom yelling about the whole situation & she ended up removing it, I hope she didn't get fired or in trouble because of me but I was in a tough spot & I was like 16 at the time so I didn't know what to do. When their vacation ended, I went in & they cleaned up the glue, they told me that they won't bother with putting in a new one. For the most part, I had mostly straight teeth, I just had a slightly crooked one on top & a slightly crooked one on the bottom, because of this, I had braces from age 12 (was put on like 2 weeks before my 13th birthday) to 15 & then had retainers glued in both top & bottom when they were taken off but after my bottom one failed, they removed the top & I used one I put in every night until I gave up on that & stopped using it, my teeth never went back to their old positions as far as I can tell. Has me wondering if I really needed braces in the first place, my younger sister had worse teeth than me & she only had invisilines but those didn't exist when I had my braces put on.

[@SketchySpyder]

I had braces for about 6 years - my overbite was so bad I actually had to get a surgery to extend my bottom jaw forwards. They extended it as much as they safely could, but the surgeon told me that he would have extended it even further if he could have - so 6 years of braces and a year of only eating soft foods to still have an overbite 😅

[@VantaDraws]

Imagine how cool it would be if we could keep regrowing teeth, like a shark

[@wanderingdreams]

I had headgear which was plenty unpleasant and painful BUT did not involve any screws thank god! I've known a few folks who also didn't have all their adult teeth and wow, fake bones are expensive

[@Kiatome]

When you were talking about your teeth falling off in that math test and you having nightmares about it, that reminded me of something that happened to me. So when I was younger, I had really messed up teeth, still kinda do. (I was born without two adult teeth next to my front two, so I make jokes about me looking like Timmy Turner) My baby teeth were really stubborn as a kid so I had to get a lot of them pulled. Well, when I was getting some of my Molars pulled.. one of them CRUNCHED in my mouth as they pulled it out, like fragments went everywhere and I literally felt and heard it as they did it, that was horrifying as a little 11 year old. To make matters worse, when I was around 13 I had reoccurring nightmares for MONTHS STRAIGHT about that happening every night. Since I knew exactly how that felt with one tooth, my brain decided it should do it with all of them, terrible and horrendous, 0/10 would not recommend. I now have a fear of people touching my teeth, because dear old brainy brain said so.

[@Snakeofwrath]

When I was 8 I chipped one of my two front teeth. I was in the rec room where we have a wood stove. Per usual I was spacing out pretty intensely, no awareness of the world around me (I have ADHD). So I was very unaware of my then 6 year old brother playing with the fire pick. He was swinging it and it wacked my tooth, chipping it. It got filled. When I was a preteen I needed to get my lateral incisors pulled. My baby teeth were refusing to fall out so they had to get pulled so my adult teeth could come in. However, they came in as peg laterals (smaller than average adult teeth). They couldn't just put on crowns as my gumline was too low and the pegs were too small. They lasered the excess gum and popped braces on my front row of teeth. Had braces for a year before getting a retainer, had that for a year and was finally allowed to get crowns. Also other kids really wanted braces and were jealous of me, but they shouldn't have been jealous. I couldn't eat certain foods, including one of my safe foods (I'm autistic), being popcorn. That and getting my braces tightened fucking hurt. After tightening I'd be in pain for the next 2-3 days. In my early 20s my wisdom teeth under my gums were hurting like hell and I had to get all four removed under full anesthesia. I was put on a 10 day soft, lukewarm food diet, couldn't use straws, and had to take a big ol penicillin aleve cocktail. Problem is that my stomach is sensitive to painkillers stronger than advil. I never threw up during that time but got pretty close to it with the combo of meds and not having much to eat. I lived off tomato soup, pudding, and mushy mac n cheese for that 10 days and with the lack of nutrition lost 5 lbs. Recently I broke a tooth on a popcorn kernel and had to get it fixed. Well afterwards the fix needed to be fixed because my bite was uneven and even after a month I still had horrible sensitivity with that tooth. I grind my teeth at night (ADHD induced stress/anxiety) and need to wear a nightguard every night. Also my mom is a dental assistant and I'm one of her patients.

[@Corave]

A few years ago, I had a literal HOLE drilled into my pallet. A tooth them came through this hole, BEHIND my first row of teeth, and the next few years were spent DRAGGING this tooth forward with a chain. It was not fun. 😐

[@lizzy-janeross6737]

When I was like 6, I was walking around my uncles neighborhood, when I tripped, fell on my face, and chipped a corner off my front tooth. I ended up getting something I don't remember done to it, and it looked fine, and I was great, until second grade. During recess one very hot day, I got overheated, fainted as the class was lining up to go back inside, and chipped the other corner off the same tooth. I ended up getting the same surgery done as when I was six, but before we could get the surgery done, my dentist discovered that the tooth beside the one I chipped was growing into the empty space, and I had to get braces to separate the teeth. I think I had those braces until fourth grade. After that nightmare, my dentist thought the nerve in my tooth was dying, and I had to get a root canal. I now have anxiety about going to the dentist.

[@yezzyjames]

I'm glad I'm not the only person with oodles of crazy teeth/dentist stories, or the only person who once had to ask a teacher if they were allowed to leave during a test 'cause some teeth fell out. :} ps oddly even more, I like going to the dentist. Always have.

[@Eldr1tchGl1tch]

The chain thing kinda happened to me, my upper right fang grew really high up there, it was ON my gum. It didn't hurt but it looked weird so I forced my mom to make me get braces to fix the other crooked parts too. She said no at first and she was mad about it, she was just wishing it hurt so I'd eat less and lose weight. She underestimated my pain resistance, and I loved carrots XD. Anyway, i had to attach a really tight elastic to my fang to the fang on the bottom. I could feel it a little, like, I could tell it was coming down, but it didn't hurt. Let's go pain tolerance. I have other pain tolerance stories XD Like the fact that i had a cyst in my uterus that was bleeding inside itself but i felt NOTHING so when the doctor doing the scan saw it, she was surprised i was so unphased.

[@gattskin]

When i was a kid i saw older sister with braces and, was for some reason, really wanted braces when i got to her age. As i got older and became a teen the dentist said i didn’t even need them. Funny how that works out!

[@maskcollectorshika]

That's crazy. Different events and causes, but I can for sure relate to the dental horror stories. 😅

[@snipintoaslamjam5518]

I had a skill issue as a child, so now my teeth are kinda fucky & very yellow. Plus I've not been to the dentist for at least a year or so because of my mom, which sucks because I'm pretty sure there's some stuff in dire need of treatment in there.

[@elliedogmeat]

My grandma recently had to get a tooth pulled, and they sent her to a specialist in.. teeth pulling I guess? But when they went to pull her tooth it wouldn't come out so they kept pulling harder. My grandma was in immense pain. They eventually gave up and basically said "we told you there would be pressure." But uh the tooth was apparently wrapped around her jaw, and now she has a huge bruise on the side of her face that hurts really bad bc they kept trying to pull it out. ...You'd think an expert in teeth pulling would know not to keep pulling when the patient is in pain and the tooth isn't coming out-

[@shadowclone195]

I had braces on and off for 8 years. got them on in second grade, off in third due to needing an MRI, back on in late third or early 4th then on till sophmore or junior year. took longer since the orthodontist made a mistake that costed 2 years

[@maddkidd]

your so underrated!!! i love your art, your doing amazing!! i also love your story times, i listen to them while i study/work :3 im also planning on reading your comic too!

[@TeasIdeas]

Omg as a kid that knocked out their adult teeth in a pretty terrible way I've been to the dentist sooooooo much and I completely understand the pain of having so many terrible things done to you I've gone to the dentist so much and some dentists have just really hated working on me when I was younger and were not gentle at all luckily that only happened like twice because so many dentists around where I live had apparently heard about me (I live in a pretty small place with nnot many dentists) they knew what I had gone through and were gentle but they always kept me awake for stuff 😭 the fear of seeing a big needle slowly coming towards my mouth. Altough they always want to show me pictures of the day I knocked out the teeth and it's like noooo stop I don't wanna seee

[@yuri_since_2021]

It was a regular second grade day for me, sad and alone without friends and an irational desire to be one of the popular kids :D It was the lunch recess, and we all had to make a line to be escorted to the lunch hall. Me being the most desparate to be the cool kid who got to be first in the line, had forgotten to take off my sweater. (and its hot where i live and im not one of those people who wear sweaters in the heat). So i started to run back to my desk, while STUPIDLY trying to take my swater off at the same time, tripped over my own foot and fell face first onto the classroom tile floor. Now, since my arms were unavailable to stop my fall because again, i was STUPIDLY trying to take my swater off while running, i was not able to break my fall and about the bottom half of my 2 front teeth broke :,DD So i got to go home early and got an apointment to "fix" my teeth. (I also got to eat pasta, my favourite food, that day for lunch so ig thats a win??). Anyways, i get sculpted teeth made out of resin, but a little while later, i get this weird green lookign stain on one of my teeth, so to fix it i had to have a minny surjery to remove the nerve from that specific tooth (i think) since it had been broken or smth, i dont really remember lol. Its getting long so, after that whole thing, aside from my 2 broken teeth, my teeth were just pretty crooked in general, so i got braces, iv had them since fourth grade and im most likely going to get them removed this year! IDK who read this the whole way through but hi and thanks ig?

[@corvigae]

eeeyyy people who broke their two front teeth bc said teeth broke their fall gang, lmao

[@surefire_]

Im also missing lateral incisors and my first two bottom molars, but they did totally different things for me, i cant imagine having all my teeth moved and changed

[@polyweird]

I def know what those stress dreams are like x.x I have a lot of dental anxiety due to bad experiences of my own so I definitely have had dreams where all my teeth fell out. I also have very vivid dreams so i usually wake up expecting a mouth full of cracked or broken teeth. *shudder*

[@10glowsicksinatrenchcoat]

I have a fun little genetic thing called crossed roots, aka child me was at the dentist every friday before they figured out it was crossed roots, thought it was decay. Ive had all my back teeth taken out (at different points but still). Now all i have is a slight overbite i dont intend to fix and a filling

[@TheAutumnleafgirl]

one of my ears is higher too it's kinda funny

[@GretchenCooper]

When I was younger and my front two adult teeth were coming in, they came in behind my baby teeth instead of under so I had to get the baby teeth removed. I don't really remember it because it was so long ago, but I remember that it hurt.

[@ApplesPlaytime]

The word “Inside youre fleshsuit” bout made me throw up 😂

[@kleo6868]

TEETH IS SCARY PROVE ME WRONG-

[@stellardemo3982]

I had a rare incident where two of my more-front-of-my-face teeth were all the way in the back (top jaw) of my mouth. It happened very long ago though, so I don't remember much.