Still Have Wisdom (3rd molar) Teeth? Tonsils?

[Dibbons]

My current best friend and I (65 yrs old) are experiencing teeth that are fracturing/breaking off at the gum-line. He now has four that way and I just found I have one, plus another heading that way. Makes me wish I still had my wisdom teeth (pulled by orthodontist when I was 16 years old), I could use a few more these days. Must be nice to have them anyway, one would have much more grinding ability it would seem.

My best friend and I in grade school both had our tonsils extracted. Don't hear about the procedure these days, maybe it was bad science back then.

 

[khryslerkid]

I still have my tonsils and wisdom teeth. The third set of molars came through without me even realising it. My dentist used to say "full house!" I've been experiencing cracked teeth for a long time. I think its from the older filling material that they used.

Tonsils are not removed these days unless the child has had strep throat quite often.

 

[moparmarks]

I had my tonsils taken out in the 60's and then they grew back so I still have them.

 

[Chargered]

Still have my tonsils and 2 wisdom teeth. When I was a teenager the dentist only seen the need to remove two and left the other two there. Those were the days when dentists actually only did the work they needed to do. Today, it seems like the dentists find an excuse to do any work so they can help pay for a new BMW or something. Back in the day, the dentists actually cleaned your teeth, now they hire a team of hygenists to do it so they can focus on the procedures to make the big bucks. Seems like a real hustle they have going now. Don't trust the dentists we have in this new era.

 

[Budnicks]

I still have my tonsils & all my wisdom teeth too
so far at 61

I did have 2 shitty crowns from a hack Dentist
on a couple of molars,
a couple teeth inward from the back molars
3rd tooth in, on one side & 4th tooth from the back on the other side
one on each side, on the bottom, way back in the early 1990's,
that I had problems with, he did a root canal,
then a crown over a ground out tooth,
with glued/epoxied on metal/porcelain covered crowns
& the teeth rotted out under the crowns

PITA, strange part is both went about the same time too
the new dentist said;
"it was crappy work, to begin with"

 

[493 Mike]

Tonsils removed in 1958 wisdom teeth (4) in 1969 by a oral surgeon. I'll always remember his assistant, boy was she built! One gold crown and a few 55year old fillings. We had fluoride treatments at school in the summers a couple times. They stuffed cotton rolls between your gums and lips and you sat there until the fluoride mixture dried. I can remember that taste too.
Mike

 

[moparedtn]

I still have my tonsils and some of my wisdom teeth.
In fact, the only dental issues I've ever had (short of that time I ate the steering wheel
in a light incident racing many, many years ago) was when a dentist 30 years ago
decided I needed my wisdom teeth removed - because "there's too much crowding in
there".
Well, it proved to be such a chore to get the first one out (the dude wound up trying to
kneel on my chest to hold me down - which didn't work out too well for him) that he wrecked
the roots in the molar next to it as well.
He didn't get another shot at any of the others since (nobody else has, either).
I drank so much milk as a kid that my bones are ridiculously strong, including my teeth.

Wife says my own could be substituted for the fabled "jawbone of an ***"...but that's another
story.

 

[6t4polara]

75 and still have my tonsils.
Have a friend who's tonsils grew back and became cancerous.
Surgery, chemo and radiation first year and cancer free.

 

[66383]

Still have my tonsils and 2 wisdom teeth. When I was a teenager the dentist only seen the need to remove two and left the other two there. Those were the days when dentists actually only did the work they needed to do. Today, it seems like the dentists find an excuse to do any work so they can help pay for a new BMW or something. Back in the day, the dentists actually cleaned your teeth, now they hire a team of hygenists to do it so they can focus on the procedures to make the big bucks. Seems like a real hustle they have going now. Don't trust the dentists we have in this new era.

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