<p>i noticed today in the mirror. i feel so vulnerable. like i could just lose part of myself (a piece of one of my front teeth no less!) forever, and have no chance of it coming or growing back. it’s maybe 3x3 millimeter piece on the front surface that dislodged. the indentation is obvious. i just hope it smooths out over time like what i reads says will happen. and there’s nothing i can think of that could have caused this. i don’t eat hard foods, i don’t use my teeth in any unconventional ways (i don’t brush them much but they’re in good health) how could this have happened. am i going to be losing more pieces of my teeth to this unknown and merciless tooth-chipping force of nature? that doesn’t seem right.</p>
<p>You poor thing. Go see a dentist?</p>
<p>it’s just sad because i’ve been nothing but SOLICITOUS to my teeth. i don’t go to the dentist anymore but i look out for them on my own. shouldering the responsibility for them on myself and not relying on the dentists to take care of them has made them some of the most cared for teeth among my peers. i keep them away from sugar, i check my mouth every now and again with my finger to see how they’re all doing. im a PROTECTOR of my teeth. i LOOK OUT for them, even the problem children like my wisdom teeth that the dentists would just like to preemptively remove (and collect insurance money for doing so from). i take care of those guys as well. i ESPECIALLY take care of them. and as a result my wisdom teeth are doing alright. they’re coming in just fine, there’s been no infections OR NOTHING, just happy growing teeth.</p>
<p>but now this happens. i lose a small piece of the tooth enamel right off the surface of my front tooth and i don’t know how. it’s like it just dislodged from the rest of the tooth, and left a 1-2 mm crater in its place. like what kind of force could do that, i don’t understand it, it’s like it slipped off more than anything else, chipped would imply some sort of chipping force but there was none. if it had been something i did, some unconventional application i used my teeth for, or some accident that happened to them, then i could just blame it on my own stupidity or bad luck. but i did NOTHING, i eat soft foods, i don’t use them to tear open plastic wrapped items, there’s no other explanation besides my teeth are sick and deceased. that it’s something wrong with them that caused this to happen, but i was supposed to be the one looking out for them! do you see how sad this is, i have no one to blame but myself. and now i lost a piece of my tooth, a piece of ME, that i can NEVER get back. and what’s in my future. is this going to keep happening, are pieces of my teeth going to keep sloughing off like this? im scared. i don’t want to yell at them but at the same time i just want to blame it ALL on them, and not in any uncertain terms either, to ask them what i did to deserve such defective teeth and decry them for their renegade ways. and it looks so unsightly too. my teeth are already discolored pretty bad but that wasn’t something i held against them, i thought they could still be strong and reliable despite it. it was not the color of your teeth that mattered in the end, but how long you could count on them for. and i was prepared to count on mine FOR LIFE. but now they just start to crumble like this and it makes me reevaluate everything. like was the discolorations an indication of disease that i missed? should i have done something sooner? were they ever really there for me?</p>
<p>i think you’re right, im going to have to go to the dentist to find out (after i research online) and see what they have to say about this. i really thought i would never have to go to the dentist ever again in my whole life. this SUCKS.</p>
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Does it bother you that you lose skin cells every day and some day you won’t have any of the same cells as you have in your body right now?</p>
<p>It’s really weird that it chipped off for no reason, though. I fell off my bike when I was eleven and chipped one of my teeth on the sidewalk, and they put some kind of fake tooth substance there and you can’t tell now. </p>
<p>Yeah go to the dentist :(</p>
<p>This is a joke, right? You don’t brush much (blechh) and don’t go the dentist and your teeth are discolored but you think you take care of your teeth? I hope you don’t take care of any pets along the same lines.</p>
<p>If Nas could get his teeth fixed, you can too.</p>
<p>Dude this totally happened to me. I know why it happened though, my boyfriend leaned in to kiss me a little too aggressively. I tried to get it fixed with bonding but in a few months it chipped off again. Apparently you can get veneers where they shave the whole tooth down and then put a shiny fake tooth in. Honestly I think I’m just going to live with the chip. It’s too small to really fix. Maybe someone will find it endearing. God knows my boyfriend doesn’t have the right to complain.</p>
<p>This happened to me twice, the dentist’ll fix it…</p>
<p>The real question is why you’re asking this on CC? </p>
<p>See the dentist. He will likely file it (or both front teeth) to make them even, or will add bonding material to it. See the dentist for likely easy solutions. </p>
<p>My hair fell out. Life goes on. And I wear a hat more.</p>
<p>Dude, just get veneers. I’ve drank so much coffee and pepsi, I’ll probably need to get some anyway.</p>
<p>After so many posts, I’m calling ■■■■■ on this guy/</p>
<p>i just wish my teeth were like the masai peoples. there’s are so gleaming and white. i tried to eat a good diet, i eschewed most sugar and grains, i didn’t drink cows blood like them but i did eat raw meat (lots of it!), i tried to imitate their practices as much as possible, not their agricultural pastoralist ways but in terms of diet, but no luck, so maybe i didn’t go far enough. my teeth remained as discolored as ever. now on top of that my front tooth is disfigured! i think it was the poor nutrition i got as a boy, my teeth never formed properly, so now im left with these weak ass teeth im ashamed to show.</p>
<p>thanks for all the replies everyone. but i have too much pride to go to the dentist. and not enough energy. i would rather just be able to keep ranting about my chipped tooth then get it fixed and put it behind me.</p>
<p>If you ignore your teeth, they will go away</p>
<p>Uh… if you let your teeth rot, you may get health problems like cardiac infections or maxillofacial infections.</p>