Dentistry is a toxic SCAM and toothlessness is natural!

[semillama]

My wife found this fine piece of woo on the mothering.com forums, from a thread on the 20/20 show on Appalachia:

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=1042015&page=3

"You know what? As an NFL website with a very active dental section, we should be the FIRST to realize that toothlessness has its upsides. I would rather have no teeth than a mouth full of toxic (and fakety fake) restorations ANY DAY!!!

Toothlessness is what NATURALLY happens when you have a tooth that is so decayed that it needs to come out. IMO, there is no moral or health redemption in the for the most part, totally toxic restorations down mountain, and that is all that separates the bulk of us from toothlessness!

It is unreal to me how we cling to these trappings like they make us better! And BTW, I don't see the grocery stores in the big city near me having ANY problems moving some soda pop."

(NFL = Natural Family Living)

Yes, there is an actual person who would prefer to be toothless than even have dentures, apparently. And toothlessness is natural, so it must be harmless!

Nevermind that an abcess will kill you did if it goes septic, though. At least you'd die of natural causes...

[TZ]

1. future potential

darwin award contender.:eyes:

[trotsky]

2. There is some woo so nutty, so wacky, so far out there...

that you just can't believe it was written seriously. This is one such example.

[mr blur]

3. Feels like Poe to me

(I'm presuming you're all familiar with the idea of Poe's Law).

[trotsky]

5. That's the term I was trying to think of when writing my post above!

Thanks!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. I'd only seen oblique references to it before

such as "I call Poe". So I looked it up. I like this mathematical expression:



from RationalWiki.

[cosmik debris]

18. Similar to Bo's law

"It is impossible to tell through the internet whether a person or organization is legitimately Atheist or is simply a person or organization making fun of Atheism."

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/2009/january/boslaw.html

[uppityperson]

4. Seems if you were toothless you wouldn't have to worry about abcesses any more.

Something I have considered.

[Warpy]

10. Anything is better than a mouthful of bad teeth

My dad lost his teeth at 26 after the war and the Depression had taken their toll.

I grew up watching him grind high spots off his dentures with a Dremel and regluing them when epoxy finally came out.

Now there's a full range of adhesives and cushions to make them quite comfortable.

Bad teeth will never be comfortable. Even when they're all fixed, you know within 6 months you'll be in that chair again, undergoing even more heroics.

[uppityperson]

14. Lowers can be an issue with bone loss though. Uppers are fine

If you pull all your bottom teeth, your jawbone gets thinner since having those teeth there encourages the bone to stay thick. This is a big reason why people with lowers have to get them refit over the yrs. Uppers you don't have such a problem since your whole skull is bigger than lower jaw bone.

Having lowers makes it easier to break your jaw since the bone is thinner.

[Warpy]

15. My dad went 63 years with full dentures

and only got new ones twice. He never broke his jaw, not being one for fisticuffs.

Dentures are better than a mouthful of bad teeth. There are a few disease processes out there for which heroics are only an extremely expensive and very temporary solution. For people with that sort of bad luck, dentures are a viable solution.

[dropkickpa]

6. I had a HORRIBLE nightmare last night

that most of my teeth fell out. Fuck that noise. It's a recurring nightmare of mine, usually happens when I grind my teeth. I like eating foods that require chewing. Hippies are nasty nasty nasty. I lived with several, I know how nasty they can be.

[mr blur]

8. Hey, I was a hippie!

and I was never nasty. And I clean my teeth!

Teeth falling out is a very common dream - I forget what it's supposed to mean. Probably something sexual.

[dropkickpa]

9. Mine happens when I grind my teeth

I think it means I'm grinding my teeth.

Sorry, my punk ass self still has an aversion to my ex-roomies, whose personal hygeine left a lot to be desired.

[Deep13]

11. Yeah, dying from an infected paper cut is also natural.

I guess I'm wonder what about restorations are toxic?

[moggie]

12. Nothing natural about paper

Chimps don't have paper, do they? And how do you make paper? By murdering nature's trees! Between them, paper and writing have caused untold suffering and harm, and I believe it's time we admitted that literacy was a huge mistake.

[Deep13]

13. "...admitted that literacy was a huge mistake."

Based on some of the woo-woo comments I read here, I sometimes wonder if that might be true.

[AZCat]

16. Literacy a mistake?

I wonder if we shouldn't have come down from the trees in the first place.

[uriel1972]

17. I think that is to be followed by...

.. I wonder if we shouldn't have left the ocean.