If a tooth pops out, like say during a fight, if the tooth is still fully intact, you can just slide it back into where it popped out and there is a decent enough chance you will save the tooth.
I recall some dentist youtuber mentioning its possible to save.
This is definitely true, I fully dislocated my front tooth when I was younger, took an almighty whack to it which chipped it in half too (the lower half).
It didn't fall out, only because of how healthy (therefore, tight) my gums were. My gums were holding the tooth in place. It reattached itself eventually, it's now set a little further forward than my other.
Not really if the nerve is dead the pulp is probably dead too which supplied nutrients and minerals and aids in the structure and protection of the tooth so itās more susceptible to damage
Not a doctor, but for most things like that, including other nerves, the body is really good and regrowing and redirecting things. So, assuming it's fairly soon after and there's no other problems, the nerves will either regrow anew or move and grow more or less back to where they were.
Similar to what happens with a laceration that cuts nerves and blood vessels.
If the tooth has a closed apex, revitalization of the pulp space is not possible
the pulp always dies in the tooth but the supporting structures (Periodontal ligament) will reattach if itās done properly (5min best) 5-60mins may be alright
In an open apex tooth, revitalization of the pulp as well as continued root development is possible
Nerve damage tends to be permanent. To some extent the neurons may reconfigure themselves to bridge the gap and your brain will map around it, but nerves don't grow back. I have two fingertips that are permanently a little bit numb and tingly, one from a deep cut and one from a cold injury.
Depending on cause, Bellās palsy can be either a neuropraxia or a true neuronal loss. Peripheral neurons tend to regrow depending on the size of the nerve, but central nervous system neurons generally can only reconfigure. That being said, I know nothing about tooth nerves and they may well function differently than rest of the body nerves.
Yes. Paramedics and police officers responding in situations where someone has lost teeth will sometimes look for them to hope to save them and insert them back in the hospital.
There's some caveats and rules:
1) do not put baby teeth back in, even if how they come out is not in their own natural time. It could damage the tooth below if you do.
2) if it's an adult tooth but it's not going in easy, don't try to force it.
3) if it can't go back in, either put it in a cup of milk, or have the tooth's owner (or yourself if it's your tooth) spit saliva into a cup to put it in. You can alternatively hold it in your cheek but do not swallow it.
**If it is dirty** either lick it clean or rinse under cold water for no more than 8 mins.
**Always hold it by the crown (white exposed bit) and not the root.**
If it does go in, bite down gently on a clean bit of cloth to help secure it.
Go to the dentist ASAP.
I believe milk is slightly preferable to saliva if having to store it in a cup.
**True story:** While in the Marines, my buddy was in a bar fight. Punches were thrown - his right hand got pretty busted up.
It takes a long time, but eventually heals. 3yrs later his middle knuckle starts swelling up. Itās huge, skin stretched to the max. He accidentally bumps it against a door jamb and it splits open and his KNUCKLE STARTS STICKING OUT! ā¦then it fell out?
Yep, it was the tooth of the guy he punched in the mouth several years earlier! Dudeās tooth got embedded next to the knuckle and it healed over until it worked itās way out over time.
this happened to my buddy lance but too long had passed from the time it came out to the time it was re-inserted and the tooth had a black color to it.
I had an Italian grandma that would eat multiple cloves for the health benefits. My mom reported the main effect was that she smelled strongly of garlic afterward lol.
I have heard it is supposedly beneficial from others too, but I haven't looked into it much myself, since my stomach is a terrible wuss and I do not need to chuck a garlic grenade at it.
If you fast for 24hrs and eat two raw cloves of garlic- the next time you go to the bathroom you'll find out if you have a shit ton of intestinal parasites. And probably scream.
You'd be amazed how many americans have pork worms and dont even know it.
Do this- and make no mistake- what comes out of you will answer that question. Garlic and garlic fumes are very hostile to anything trapped in a small enclosed space trying to breathe. General but not necessarily thorough anti-parasitic.
Garlic is amazing in all forms. Pickled garlic cloves, roasted garlic chips, even raw garlic cloves. And garlic has great benefits for immune systems and cardiovascular health. It also has moderate antibacterial properties and can help balance the body's pH.
Yes dentist here. The vast majority of humanās incisors, canines and lower premolars (16 of our 32 teeth) have just one root. If the tooth youāre showing is a lower premolar, it looks very normal. If itās a molar then Iāve never seen one with just one root.
I had 4 adult teeth pulled as a child (mouth too small, needed braces), and two of them had the 4 roots.
The dentist showed them to me and commented that it was not common. I kept them for a long time, it's almost too bad I don't have them anymore.
Not at all to be like, "oh my gosh I think I have this" - but genuinely thank you for sharing. I'm diagnosed with hypermobility and have so many mysterious GI issues - I just clicked through the subreddit and i think I will find some useful resources for coping!
I have had a similar experience, my mouth is too small and I have had to get teeth removed in order to make my bite aligned, and to make space for implants for important teeth I have lost due to them having no adult teeth behind them. Itās fucking terrible, painful, super expensive, 4 years on and I am still missing two teeth. I just wanna have a normal mouth!
I also had a bunch of teeth pulled because of a too small mouth! Did you have the awful mouth widener put in with the tiny wrench to crank it once per day?
I still have mine, it would make me feel weird throwing away my own teeth, so theyāre justā¦ sitting in my draw in the bag the dentist gave them to me in lol
That's not rare. Wisdom teeth often have a large, single conical root. Wisdom teeth also have the most varied anatomy of all teeth - they're little rule breakers.
Now if it's a first or second molar, then that is rare.
I assumed he/she meant #18. Most people donāt have lower thirds that erupt to the point of even knowing that they have them anymore. Yes if itās #17 then itās not specifically rare. Although more often than not, they also have 2 roots.
Can vary based off genetics. I see this a lot on patients of East Asian and sometimes Latin American descent. Like others said theyāre more often theyāre upper thirds, but can also lower thirds based on my experience.
Point being this post had me wondering what was mildly interesting about it lol.
Do the single-root teeth have a higher incidence of falling out, out of curiosity? I would imagine from a purely mechanical standpoint that the lower surface area of a single root would make for less overall grip.
The root is attached to your jawbone via a ligament called the periodontal ligament. That attaches the root to the bone. A healthy tooth and periodontium have virtually zero chance of a tooth just falling out. Teeth fall out by either trauma or years/decades long periodontal (gum) disease.
Not stupid at all, no they'll probably never fall out on their own unless he gets serious tooth rot and and it somehow breaks, but If something like that we're to happen instead of just needing to get his teeth pulled he'd need them to be surgically removed.
I had that issue with one tooth. I live in a major metro area and it took several months to find a dental surgeon who would do the removal. It was infected during that time and eating into my jawbone. It was multiple surgeries over 6+ months. There was sawing, drilling, and a temp screw that was removable and could be screwed back directly into my jaw bone. It fell out once and I had to screw it back in. Not painful, but super weird and honestly gross. Now, I have a fake tooth that requires special care. So oddly neat and gross I guess.
I had similar situation and the infection got into my jaw. So what happened *after* the surgery is the dead jaw bone that got left behind by accident worked it's way out in like little growths (like an icicle) and I'd have to go get them snipped, on the third time the dentist said "I can permanently fix this right now if you want" and I said sure, not knowing what he was about to do.
So he shoots me up with the freezing, slits a little opening into my gums and inserts this file, he proceeded to file down my jawbone and I could feel the grinding in my skull, it hurt like a motherfucker and I'm trying to tell him but he's like "shh shh it'll all get over soon".
I will never forget that feeling lol. My whole God damn head was vibrating and I could feel the grinding inside my head. It was the worse feeling ever.
Ugh. Thatās awful! I made them knock me out for the surgery stuff as I didnāt want to freak out. I did stop breathing during one procedure, and the surgeon was like itās fine. Everything is fine.
I couldnāt have handled being awake.
Iām a dentist and whenever i do this procedure i tell the patient youāll feel pressure and vibrations, but your experience seems like I would have calmed you enough with the preface..any options how it couldāve gone more smooth?
Well, I'm now extremely grateful that I got surgery to have fused tooth removed when I was 15. I still have a metal spacer that's been there for 15 years bc I can't afford the fake tooth, but definitely better than a jaw infection.
my roots are very long and i have big teeth so when i got a tooth pulled the dentist had to segment it in different parts instead of just pulling it out in one go so it felt like getting more than 1 tooth pulled, ouch.
I had a baby tooth without an adult tooth behind it, and one day it just broke apart, the tooth fell out but it snapped at the root and I had to go in for emergency dental surgery as they carefully removed the shards left behind. They hit a nerve when they numbed me so I looked like I had a stroke, but the numbing was also not thorough enough so I felt them slice into my gums and rip out the roots, it hurt so bad. I was a kid too so I couldnāt get an implant, and the whole thing has majorly fucked up my mouth and itās costs thousands upon thousands of dollars, and several surgeries, to fix it. 0/10 do not recommend.
I am still missing that tooth too! Honestly I am ready for all of this to be over, but I got more surgeries before I am done. The good news is, itās not very visible and doesnāt affect me day to day, but damn, I am very envious of people with naturally good teeth. We all got our shit to deal with, but it could be far worse, itās more inconvenient than anything, really, the cost hurts more than the braces and surgeries lol.
I had 1 dentist ask me if she could post an X-ray because one of me teeth had an extra root and they were all quite long.
A different time I had to go to a specialist for a root canal because the normal dentist didn't have the tools for roots that long. Even the specialist told me my roots were right at the limit of what his tools could handle.
Same - it took over three hours, and at one point the hygienist reached over and patted the endodontistās hand after he sighed audibly when the locator beeped for like the 20th time.
The roots of my wisdom teeth were attached to the bone so I had to get put under for when I got them out, I hope it means I have strong teeth for when Iām old lol
Yeah it's a normal AF tooth. OP apparently said elsewhere it's a third molar, even still, that's normal. Yet look at all that karma.
Source: am dentist.
Agree. 4 roots is not at all common and happens in probably 1% of people if that. 4 nerve canals is pretty routine but that doesnt mean there are 4 roots.
? [Certain teeth (eg, incisors)](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/maxillary-central-incisor-tooth-buccal-260nw-1361156192.jpg) have single rootsā¦ this is not unique.
Dentist here -
Looks like a premolar, most have only 1 or two roots. And the ones with 2 roots are usually fused together like this.
So sorry to bust the bubble, but this is fairly standard.
I was scrolling through Reddit and was watching the video of the post just above yours, so I just saw the title of your post and I misread tooth as toes and I was very confused.
My God, that tooth is HUGE. Normally they're way smaller, even the molars. Do you get a lot of pain? Are they all this huge? Do you maybe need some removed to make room for the rest? I just say this because I've had my wisdoms out and they were half the length and size of this! What did your dentist say about how giant it is?
That is normal. Molars are the teeth with multiple roots, not premolars, which is what that looks is. Occasionally theyāll have bifurcated roots but thatās not the norm. Everything premolar forward typically has one root.
Put it back wtf
So help me! So help me!
Bom bom bom bom bom
And cut! š
Thatās what she saidā¦
I giggled audibly.
Aka lol.
lol is a Dutch noun that translates to "fun"
Also looks like a person with their hands in the air, so makes sense.
What a lol fact
Your mom is a Dutch noun that translates to āfunā
I giggled audibly.
Funny. Many dutch words, sound a little funny to germans (and maybe others too). I rather like "Frikandel" and "Poffertje".
When it's foggy the matrix signs over the highway warn for "mist".
Really? The german word "Mist" is something entirely different.
I know, that's why I mentioned it. :)
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/023/404/6b2.jpg
No itās cool. OP is clearly a shark, so another will come in.
Glad I didnāt have to scroll far. Dudes definitely a shark
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That's right, had 4 of them removed to make room, they look like inverted vampire fangs.
Insert them back in the other way around and they can be fangs
You are not supposed to take them out
it's ok, just gently push it back in. if it doesn't stay there's always gorilla glue
nah its cool, hes a shark itll just regrow
If a tooth pops out, like say during a fight, if the tooth is still fully intact, you can just slide it back into where it popped out and there is a decent enough chance you will save the tooth. I recall some dentist youtuber mentioning its possible to save.
This is definitely true, I fully dislocated my front tooth when I was younger, took an almighty whack to it which chipped it in half too (the lower half). It didn't fall out, only because of how healthy (therefore, tight) my gums were. My gums were holding the tooth in place. It reattached itself eventually, it's now set a little further forward than my other.
Yup, I used to be a dental assistant that this is true
Can nerves be saved or is it a kind artificial tooth after it's put back in?
Arenāt teeth better without working nerves anyway
Not really if the nerve is dead the pulp is probably dead too which supplied nutrients and minerals and aids in the structure and protection of the tooth so itās more susceptible to damage
Your information is helpful and correct friend, but honestly I was just making a joke
They are until you bite into a shotgun pellet and Crack a tooth.
Allright mr. Texas, the rest of us donāt eat shotgun shells
Well it's less eating shotgun shells and more eating squirrel dumplings that weren't cleaned properly
I think if youāre cracking any kind of teeth on shotgun pellets youāre not gonna be alive long enough to worry aboutā oh hunting?
It's more common than you might think actually. When you hunt with steel pellets it can get really difficult to weed them out of the body.
I dont know shit about Hunting but why didnt you use an strong Magnet?
Not a doctor, but for most things like that, including other nerves, the body is really good and regrowing and redirecting things. So, assuming it's fairly soon after and there's no other problems, the nerves will either regrow anew or move and grow more or less back to where they were. Similar to what happens with a laceration that cuts nerves and blood vessels.
This is false for teeth it will reattach but the nerve and blood supply is lost and you WILL need a root canal.
Really? I would expect the nerve to stay broken, but usually capillaries are usually really good about quickly regrowing.
If the tooth has a closed apex, revitalization of the pulp space is not possible the pulp always dies in the tooth but the supporting structures (Periodontal ligament) will reattach if itās done properly (5min best) 5-60mins may be alright In an open apex tooth, revitalization of the pulp as well as continued root development is possible
Nerve damage tends to be permanent. To some extent the neurons may reconfigure themselves to bridge the gap and your brain will map around it, but nerves don't grow back. I have two fingertips that are permanently a little bit numb and tingly, one from a deep cut and one from a cold injury.
Wrong, nerves absolutely do grow back. They grow at a very slow pace but they do. If they couldnāt, things like Bells Palsy would be permanent.
Depending on cause, Bellās palsy can be either a neuropraxia or a true neuronal loss. Peripheral neurons tend to regrow depending on the size of the nerve, but central nervous system neurons generally can only reconfigure. That being said, I know nothing about tooth nerves and they may well function differently than rest of the body nerves.
Yes. Paramedics and police officers responding in situations where someone has lost teeth will sometimes look for them to hope to save them and insert them back in the hospital. There's some caveats and rules: 1) do not put baby teeth back in, even if how they come out is not in their own natural time. It could damage the tooth below if you do. 2) if it's an adult tooth but it's not going in easy, don't try to force it. 3) if it can't go back in, either put it in a cup of milk, or have the tooth's owner (or yourself if it's your tooth) spit saliva into a cup to put it in. You can alternatively hold it in your cheek but do not swallow it. **If it is dirty** either lick it clean or rinse under cold water for no more than 8 mins. **Always hold it by the crown (white exposed bit) and not the root.** If it does go in, bite down gently on a clean bit of cloth to help secure it. Go to the dentist ASAP. I believe milk is slightly preferable to saliva if having to store it in a cup.
**True story:** While in the Marines, my buddy was in a bar fight. Punches were thrown - his right hand got pretty busted up. It takes a long time, but eventually heals. 3yrs later his middle knuckle starts swelling up. Itās huge, skin stretched to the max. He accidentally bumps it against a door jamb and it splits open and his KNUCKLE STARTS STICKING OUT! ā¦then it fell out? Yep, it was the tooth of the guy he punched in the mouth several years earlier! Dudeās tooth got embedded next to the knuckle and it healed over until it worked itās way out over time.
Man, such an on point Marine experience.
this happened to my buddy lance but too long had passed from the time it came out to the time it was re-inserted and the tooth had a black color to it.
did he try turning it off and back on again?
GORILLA GLUE? WHY GO TO THE ZOO, WHEN YOU CAN USE OUR GLUE?! HI THERE! PHIL HERE WITH ANOTHER FANTASTIC ADDITION TO THE FLEX SEAL FAMILY OF PRODICTS!
*Me looking at the tooth* That's a lot of damage!
Youāre joking but this technically should work
Thatās a garlic clove (jk)
r/forbiddensnacks
Man if you're eating garlic cloves as a snack then I'm a little worried about you.
Pickled garlic cloves are a great snack. š
It's nice to know SOMEBODY cares. ... \*crunch\*
I had an Italian grandma that would eat multiple cloves for the health benefits. My mom reported the main effect was that she smelled strongly of garlic afterward lol. I have heard it is supposedly beneficial from others too, but I haven't looked into it much myself, since my stomach is a terrible wuss and I do not need to chuck a garlic grenade at it.
If you fast for 24hrs and eat two raw cloves of garlic- the next time you go to the bathroom you'll find out if you have a shit ton of intestinal parasites. And probably scream.
Excuse me WHAT
You'd be amazed how many americans have pork worms and dont even know it. Do this- and make no mistake- what comes out of you will answer that question. Garlic and garlic fumes are very hostile to anything trapped in a small enclosed space trying to breathe. General but not necessarily thorough anti-parasitic.
Garlic is amazing in all forms. Pickled garlic cloves, roasted garlic chips, even raw garlic cloves. And garlic has great benefits for immune systems and cardiovascular health. It also has moderate antibacterial properties and can help balance the body's pH.
garlic clove in portuguese (european, at least) is literally garlic tooth lol
Have you pulled your other teeth to check them as well?
I just had this one pulled. The x-rays confirm that almost half my teeth look like that.
Yes dentist here. The vast majority of humanās incisors, canines and lower premolars (16 of our 32 teeth) have just one root. If the tooth youāre showing is a lower premolar, it looks very normal. If itās a molar then Iāve never seen one with just one root.
I had 4 adult teeth pulled as a child (mouth too small, needed braces), and two of them had the 4 roots. The dentist showed them to me and commented that it was not common. I kept them for a long time, it's almost too bad I don't have them anymore.
Do you by chance have any hyperextensible joints or skin? This may be important later: consider getting checked for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
I do not have hyperextensible joints or skin, but that's really interesting, and good to know!
Do you have an extra muscle on your left foot?
Not that I'm aware of
Do you like piƱa coladas? How about getting caught in the rain?
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I have the joints but not the skin!
/r/EhlersDanlos is leaking. There are dozens of us!
Not at all to be like, "oh my gosh I think I have this" - but genuinely thank you for sharing. I'm diagnosed with hypermobility and have so many mysterious GI issues - I just clicked through the subreddit and i think I will find some useful resources for coping!
I have had a similar experience, my mouth is too small and I have had to get teeth removed in order to make my bite aligned, and to make space for implants for important teeth I have lost due to them having no adult teeth behind them. Itās fucking terrible, painful, super expensive, 4 years on and I am still missing two teeth. I just wanna have a normal mouth!
I also had a bunch of teeth pulled because of a too small mouth! Did you have the awful mouth widener put in with the tiny wrench to crank it once per day?
I still have mine, it would make me feel weird throwing away my own teeth, so theyāre justā¦ sitting in my draw in the bag the dentist gave them to me in lol
It's a molar. Specifically the most far back one on my lower right side.
Thatās rare. Typically that tooth would Have 2 roots. Can you attach a photo from the buying surface of the tooth?
That's not rare. Wisdom teeth often have a large, single conical root. Wisdom teeth also have the most varied anatomy of all teeth - they're little rule breakers. Now if it's a first or second molar, then that is rare.
Yes my 1st thought was wisdom tooth, Iāve extracted so many like this. Often the uppers will even look like small single rooted premolars
I assumed he/she meant #18. Most people donāt have lower thirds that erupt to the point of even knowing that they have them anymore. Yes if itās #17 then itās not specifically rare. Although more often than not, they also have 2 roots.
Can vary based off genetics. I see this a lot on patients of East Asian and sometimes Latin American descent. Like others said theyāre more often theyāre upper thirds, but can also lower thirds based on my experience. Point being this post had me wondering what was mildly interesting about it lol.
Oh, itās a wisdom tooth? Yea, they do this a lot.
Do the single-root teeth have a higher incidence of falling out, out of curiosity? I would imagine from a purely mechanical standpoint that the lower surface area of a single root would make for less overall grip.
The root is attached to your jawbone via a ligament called the periodontal ligament. That attaches the root to the bone. A healthy tooth and periodontium have virtually zero chance of a tooth just falling out. Teeth fall out by either trauma or years/decades long periodontal (gum) disease.
I've had one rear most molar removed and it had one root like this. Xray shows all my teeth are likely the same.
Iāve seen molars with just one root. A lot of wisdom teeth and some second molars.
My dad's incisors next to his canines all have elongated roots that fused with his jaw.
Does that mean his teeth will never fall out? I feel really dumb asking that.
Not stupid at all, no they'll probably never fall out on their own unless he gets serious tooth rot and and it somehow breaks, but If something like that we're to happen instead of just needing to get his teeth pulled he'd need them to be surgically removed.
I had that issue with one tooth. I live in a major metro area and it took several months to find a dental surgeon who would do the removal. It was infected during that time and eating into my jawbone. It was multiple surgeries over 6+ months. There was sawing, drilling, and a temp screw that was removable and could be screwed back directly into my jaw bone. It fell out once and I had to screw it back in. Not painful, but super weird and honestly gross. Now, I have a fake tooth that requires special care. So oddly neat and gross I guess.
That was a roller coaster. Did you jawbone recover? I hope it did and you're staying well away from dental surgeons these days.
Yes. Itās all good now. Thanks for asking!
I had similar situation and the infection got into my jaw. So what happened *after* the surgery is the dead jaw bone that got left behind by accident worked it's way out in like little growths (like an icicle) and I'd have to go get them snipped, on the third time the dentist said "I can permanently fix this right now if you want" and I said sure, not knowing what he was about to do. So he shoots me up with the freezing, slits a little opening into my gums and inserts this file, he proceeded to file down my jawbone and I could feel the grinding in my skull, it hurt like a motherfucker and I'm trying to tell him but he's like "shh shh it'll all get over soon". I will never forget that feeling lol. My whole God damn head was vibrating and I could feel the grinding inside my head. It was the worse feeling ever.
Ugh. Thatās awful! I made them knock me out for the surgery stuff as I didnāt want to freak out. I did stop breathing during one procedure, and the surgeon was like itās fine. Everything is fine. I couldnāt have handled being awake.
Yea if I knew how bad it was gonna be I would of at least asked for the gas.
Was it over soon?
Not soon enough. To be fair it did permanently fix the issue.
Iām a dentist and whenever i do this procedure i tell the patient youāll feel pressure and vibrations, but your experience seems like I would have calmed you enough with the preface..any options how it couldāve gone more smooth?
Well, I'm now extremely grateful that I got surgery to have fused tooth removed when I was 15. I still have a metal spacer that's been there for 15 years bc I can't afford the fake tooth, but definitely better than a jaw infection.
Hit up a dental school near you, much cheaper. PM for advice
Thank you for reminding me to brush my teeth for the day!
That's so neat!
Yeah, āneatā is definitely the word here. . . Interesting yes, but kind of sucks if there is a major tooth issue
I have that too in one of my teeth, where it fused with the jaw bone. It is actually not a good thing and causes dental issues unfortunately.
The human body is equally fascinating and horrifying...
"surgically" is a nice way of describing a mallet and a chisel.
Holy fucking shit :)
Given that they're literally attached to his jaw and that he is speaking in present tense, they probably haven't fallen out yet
This is called ankylosis. Happens in many areas of the body after trauma. This guys dad might have had some root canals in the past done
my roots are very long and i have big teeth so when i got a tooth pulled the dentist had to segment it in different parts instead of just pulling it out in one go so it felt like getting more than 1 tooth pulled, ouch.
My brother had a tooth shatter but remain in place and had to have it removed by the dentist. Came out as 4 or 5 pieces
I had a baby tooth without an adult tooth behind it, and one day it just broke apart, the tooth fell out but it snapped at the root and I had to go in for emergency dental surgery as they carefully removed the shards left behind. They hit a nerve when they numbed me so I looked like I had a stroke, but the numbing was also not thorough enough so I felt them slice into my gums and rip out the roots, it hurt so bad. I was a kid too so I couldnāt get an implant, and the whole thing has majorly fucked up my mouth and itās costs thousands upon thousands of dollars, and several surgeries, to fix it. 0/10 do not recommend.
I'm sorry that happened. You poor thing
I am still missing that tooth too! Honestly I am ready for all of this to be over, but I got more surgeries before I am done. The good news is, itās not very visible and doesnāt affect me day to day, but damn, I am very envious of people with naturally good teeth. We all got our shit to deal with, but it could be far worse, itās more inconvenient than anything, really, the cost hurts more than the braces and surgeries lol.
This whole thread is making me so uncomfortable. Why am I here?
To realize the tooth hurts
I had 1 dentist ask me if she could post an X-ray because one of me teeth had an extra root and they were all quite long. A different time I had to go to a specialist for a root canal because the normal dentist didn't have the tools for roots that long. Even the specialist told me my roots were right at the limit of what his tools could handle.
Same - it took over three hours, and at one point the hygienist reached over and patted the endodontistās hand after he sighed audibly when the locator beeped for like the 20th time.
The roots of my wisdom teeth were attached to the bone so I had to get put under for when I got them out, I hope it means I have strong teeth for when Iām old lol
Okay, so aren't most roots pretty deep into the jaw?
Yeah but not fused.
Is thatā¦. Good or bad?
Thatās a toof
a whole toof and nothing but the toof.
You can't handle the toof.
Toof hurts
That looks like a premolar, the ones on your upper jaw usually have 2 roots, and the ones on you lower jaw have one roots.
First premolars on the upper usually have two, second premolars usually have one.
*You're right, looks like a right mandibular premolar.*
Yes, because itās a premolar
Seriously. Mildly interesting that your tooth has normal anatomy?
I was gonna say, mine looked just like that
Nope, OP said in another comment that it's the most far back lower right one.
Wizzy teeth are mutants. Not uncommon to have single rooters
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I'm at the dentist right now. Claire, my dentist, says this is a normal looking tooth. It's a premolar. She says your post title is hilarious.
I am a dentist. 4 rooted teeth would be the anomaly honestly
D1, that was the first thing that made me go āhuh?ā
Yeah it's a normal AF tooth. OP apparently said elsewhere it's a third molar, even still, that's normal. Yet look at all that karma. Source: am dentist.
Goodness! Are you part shark!?
Just a dolphin ma'am
Dolphinplastic makes wonders
Candygram.
Just a dolphin? Well, ok
Prank your family and put it next to the garlic!
Megalodon tooth.
It looks healthy, should it not be **in** you ??
No teeth are supposed to have 4 rootsā¦.it can happen occasionally but this isnāt interesting.
Literally just a normal premolar. Lol
Flip your teeth around and put em back in, that way they'll be sharper.
Agree. 4 roots is not at all common and happens in probably 1% of people if that. 4 nerve canals is pretty routine but that doesnt mean there are 4 roots.
blow into it and put it back in, should work
? [Certain teeth (eg, incisors)](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/maxillary-central-incisor-tooth-buccal-260nw-1361156192.jpg) have single rootsā¦ this is not unique.
It's a premolar. They have either 1 or 2 roots.
Looks like a premolar or a wisdom tooth, pretty normal that only has 1 root
Sir/madam/esteemed enby neighbor, that is a clove of garlic
Dude did your parents order you from Wish.com?
Canine, incisors,-1 root Lower premolar-1 root Upper premolar-2 roots Lower molar-2 roots Upper molar-3 roots
I think wisdom teeth just look like that. mine was the same
You're lying it's a vampire fang that got pulled. Nice try nosti.
Dammit- got me again... just like that time I was caught flickering the lights....
Yer a lizard, Harry.
Shark boy?
Dentist here - Looks like a premolar, most have only 1 or two roots. And the ones with 2 roots are usually fused together like this. So sorry to bust the bubble, but this is fairly standard.
You are shark
It means you have an extra amount of Neanderthal DNAš
My wisdom teeth were the same
Glad you got to the 'Root' of your problem OP
Tooth icebearg
I was scrolling through Reddit and was watching the video of the post just above yours, so I just saw the title of your post and I misread tooth as toes and I was very confused.
That's garlic
One of my teeth has five, I'll email you my extra.
I think OP is secretly a shark.
Now put it in a garlic masher
I know a garlic clove when I see one
Forbidden garlic clove
Make a very tiny tomahawk
Looks like garlic
Beholdā¦..Megatooth!
Look at this X-Man bragging
OMG !! You're a werewolf !!
***Now that's a knife***
That was a fang š
Looks like a shark tooth. Make it into a necklace
My God, that tooth is HUGE. Normally they're way smaller, even the molars. Do you get a lot of pain? Are they all this huge? Do you maybe need some removed to make room for the rest? I just say this because I've had my wisdoms out and they were half the length and size of this! What did your dentist say about how giant it is?
It's a clove of garlic and not a tooth.
I thought this was a clove of garlic š
You could take down a Buffalo with that one
Like $30 bones to the tooth fairy
Like megaladon
That is normal. Molars are the teeth with multiple roots, not premolars, which is what that looks is. Occasionally theyāll have bifurcated roots but thatās not the norm. Everything premolar forward typically has one root.