What are your goals for your teeth?

[tjwash]

I just recently switched dentists, and this new one asked me that. For the first time in my life I was at an absolute loss for words, or even a smart-ass comeback. All I could say was "Um, to keep them?"

[FizzFuzz]

1. "what are your goals for your teeth?"????

sheesh.

I think someone took the "developing rapport with your patients" portion of the curriculum a little too seriously.

what a dweeb.:freak:

[sniffa]

2. teLL me...

where do you see your teeth in 5 years?

[WillParkinson]

14. In a cute little cup next to my bedside...

Staring at me.

[smada]

3. goals?

I think is reasonable to have goals for your personal life, your career, even your children. But to have goals for your teeth ("I really want them to be in the 90th percentile of sparkling white") is a little unbalanced, IMO.

[WillParkinson]

15. I don't think so...

Do you want to keep them? I mean, if you don't care what happens to them then don't take care of them, etc.

If, however, you have a goal of keeping your teeth then the dentist is apparently saying that he/she is willing to work with you to attain that goal.

[Lars39]

4. Was he hinting about braces?

Strange way to talk with patients.

[JM]

5. Well, from what I have heard, my left incisor...

...would like to someday get Cs at a prestigious business school, fail at running three businesses, allow the economic rape of a large nation, and kill thousands of innocents while wagin war with the wrong country, all before falling out of my mouth at age 70 or so.

JM

[LuLu550]

6. I wish someone had asked me that much earlier in my life

I now believe things would have been different for my teeth. Rather than hanging around in my mouth doing nothing between meals, they would have had a vision for themselves.... a plan...

[Liberal Veteran]

7. I know....such a waste.

No one told them when to run. They missed the starting gun.

[MallRat]

8. Or, if you're Bob Boudelang...

"What are the goals for your tooth?"

-MR

[MallRat]

9. Are your teeth better off now than 4 years ago?

I got a million of 'em!!!

:bounce:

[FizzFuzz]

20. a million teeth??!

you must be pretty horrific when you smile

ar ar ar

[Sub Atomic]

10. This is actually pretty interesting

I turned 40 in March.

For my 40th birthday, I decided to follow the advise of three different dentists: orthodontia.

On May 5th, I had a quad expander put in for my upper cross-bite. On June 25th, they adjust that and put the hardware on my lower teeth.

With any luck, by the time I'm 42, I'll have the perfectly straight smile I've always wanted.

[AlCzervik]

12. I went through the great teeth transformation about 2 years ago

at the ripe old age of 35. My goals for my teeth was to enhance their appearance and seeing as how they refused to do that on their own, i sought out the best cosmetic guy i could afford. I had alot of stuff done, 1 root canal, some gum scaling...ow!...and then the final was having veneers installed. I love how my teeth came out, my only regret is that i didn't have done it years ago.

[Liberal Veteran]

11. Well, I thought I start them on soft foods like mashed potatoes...

...and eventually work their way up to corn on the cob. If there is room for advancement, perhaps settle into some caviar and Pate de Foie Gras.

[SmileyBoy]

13. I hope to save enough money to put them through college.

:)

[cheezus]

19. better go to dental school

those guys make a killing ;)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. To use them to bite someone near and dear to me

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[TrogL]

17. Rip them all out like I shoulda done five years ago

Instead I got talked into keeping them and they've been nothing but a hassle ever since.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

18. Don't laugh!

I wish I'd had a dentist years ago who thought my teeth should have "goals". :(

At 43 I am dealing with a couple of thousand dollars worth of peridontal work to fix some nasty bone loss/gum problems that have come with my crowded front teeth.

And in a year or so I am looking at braces so I can keep as any of my teeth as possible later on.

For years the dentists told me not to worry about my teeth, it won't be a problem. An aggressive dentist and some braces years ago would have saved me a lot of do-re-mi and a few teeth!

[beanball]

21. My clean choppers

just returned from the dentist,had my teeth cleaned and flossed,want to keep them in great biting condition just in case I ever come in contact with Ann Coulter,I will bite her bony ass.(spent over twenty years in the military as a dental tech so here is some advice from a know it all,brush and floss after each meal and see your dentist at leat once a year.)If anyone from the ADA see this send the money to Beanball at the old soldiers home.