I’d forgotten about those.
I split a bicuspid clean in half eating a salad. Required a crown to repair. The chipped tooth just needed some sort of amalgam and a curing light.
Biscotti did me in.
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Wow. And folks complain about the texture of oatmeal!
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Both of us had to have crowns put on broken molars from eating wasabi peas. Our dentist also cautioned us against popcorn and whole almonds…
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I got my first crown after chomping into a loaf of bread I had just made. Granted, the tooth was structurally weak because it was loaded with fillings, but still …. I awarded myself the Betty Crocker Black Apron Award for Dangerous Baking.
ETA: I have a bowl for popcorn that sieves the unpopped kernels into a container on the bottom. Supposedly it was in wanted by a dentist.
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That’s pretty funny about your bread!! My first crown was precipitated by a large piece of coarse sea salt that came out of a grinder at a restaurant - having a salt grinder on the table was a novelty to me at the time. We were living in the Netherlands. I waited until we moved back to the States to have it addressed because we love our dentist (he loves us - sea salt, wasabi peas and all!). I haven’t eaten popcorn in years. I miss peanut brittle, as well…
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I love belts. With ties relegated to a few special occasions, belts are a fun way to add a little whimsy. I am a fan of colored surcingle belts.
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My dentist told me that in his experience, it’s not uncommon that someone will have been eating a soft food when a compromised tooth finally breaks. He also shared that his practice gets multiple calls every day from patients with a cracked or broken tooth.
Never knew that.
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I lost a gold crown to a cheeseburger.
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My old dentist - long since retired - told me once that ice chewers put his son through medical school. (Then the son married into the richest family in the area and stopped practicing medicine to join her family business.)
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Oh no! Sux getting old.
The dentist told us as kids not to eat ‘Cornuts’. I broke a molar a few years back on a chunky peanut butter filled rib of celery.
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I recently turned 51. Years from retirement. But we’re about 5 yrs from paying off our mortgage that we’ve had for about 12 yrs. I read that the no1 reason retirees are unhappy or stressed in their retirement is if they still have a mortgage.
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Is that still true? I’ve always believed that, and made that my goal, but it seems as though there may have been updates, at least before the current mortgage interest rates.
It was an article I read in the past year or so. No more than that.
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not only a mortgage - but some folks heading into retirement still with student loans!
say whot!!!?
the house is paid, cars paid. it really is nice not having buckets of bills coming due every month.
not much one can do about the gas/electric bills - but the ‘discretionary spending’ thing - yeah, that’s under control!
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preppy!
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How does that happen? Even if you consolidate you might be at a 20 yr loan. Back to school for a second career perhaps? Come to think of it, I should ask my mom. She went to med school at age 44.
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