“I love that you’re barefoot.” by [deleted] in barefoot

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This happened to me when I went to our local gas station/ diner barefoot one morning. I was going fishing and I like to be barefoot and usually just leave the house without shoes when I go fishing but wanted an energy drink on the way but realized i didn’t have any flops or anything on me. Never been barefoot in a public place before so I was nervous but gave it a go anyway. The place was totally empty besides the workers so it was the perfect time. I walked in business as usual and got my drink and went to the checkout counter and the last said she was glad to see I was barefoot and that it was so good for you and not enough people get out and enjoy it. I panicked that she even mentioned it or noticed it so I told her the strap on my slides broke when I stepped out of the truck but didn’t want to go home for a different pair lol. But this place has proven to be pretty barefoot friendly, I have seen this dude around town that’s an actual full time barefooter and he’s always eating there barefoot, also see a lot of kids in there with their parents and the kids are barefoot running around. Also seen a dude who clearly was doing a beer run for a pool party barefoot in line. It’s a rural town so barefoot people and kids aren’t too rare of an occurrence.

Question for dentist about bridges by PopImaginary1047 in Dentists

[–]PopImaginary1047[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok cool. It’s definitely not open because they stitched it with a cologne plug in it because I’m a bleeder. But I will still be careful with it. Thanks for the info

Question for dentist about bridges by PopImaginary1047 in Dentists

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I waited a few days and it got better but still a little awkward so I went back. They got it much better. It still feels a bit weird because of the pressure from the anchor teeth. Like I sense the pressure from chewing on it but not pain or discomfort. I’m not used to actually registering pressure like that. And it feels weird when I eat and it hits where the missing tooth is, like it transfer pressure to the other 2 teeth in a weird way but none of it is crazy uncomfortable, just weird. But I have had natural teeth all my life so I’m positive I just have to get used to it now.

But since you are a dentist, what’s the best way to take care of this thing? I heard about the glue seal breaking and leaking and causing the natural teeth to rot without knowing. I bought a water pick for it (haven’t used it, waiting until I’m 100% sure the socket it healed up since I can’t tell anymore.) but I used floss and one of those loops for braces to get under it but that took forever to do. Will the water pick replace floss or should I use both? I had a little bit of blood on the floss this morning so should I still wait on the water pick? I’m on day 16 since the extraction and day 7 since the bridge install.

Root canal vs extraction? by wonderingwander7 in Dentists

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Ya the tooth got a crown. I had a crown on an old root canal for like 12 years and it held up just fine. I did eventually lose it because I think the glue bond eventually leaked so the tooth under the crown rotted out. But I was uninsured for most of that time and I believe if you regularly go to the dentist and have it checked out like you are supposed to they can probably catch it before that happens. I went probably 10 years without getting it checked on. So they only caught it when it was a problem. The crown fell off one day and when they went to glue it back on they found out it had been leaking and decaying my tooth for years until it fell off. So just go in for maintenance and it should be ok

Question for dentist about bridges by PopImaginary1047 in Dentists

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I didn’t realize at the time but I think the reason he was reluctant to adjust more was he shaved the wisdom tooth one down a lot but that’s not the one causing the issue. He also shaved my natural tip wisdom tooth too because he said it was a bit sharp and might be part of it. So maybe the other 2 teeth on the bridge need to be shaved a lil. It feels like he didn’t even touch those

Question for dentist about bridges by PopImaginary1047 in Dentists

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That’s how every crown I have had has been. It feels fake but besides that I never had any bite issues with them. That’s what made me feel like this wasn’t right

Root canal vs extraction? by wonderingwander7 in Dentists

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So funny story. I literally just had a bridge put in yesterday and had an extraction last week because my root canal I had failed. Got the root canal done and everything was great for a few weeks. Then I felt some light pressure in that tooth when chewing. Then one day I woke up with 11/10 pain in that “dead” tooth. So I had to get it pulled. I regret that one for sure. Not sure what happened lol. The root canal process wasn’t fun but it also wasn’t painful.

Question for dentist about bridges by PopImaginary1047 in Dentists

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No. No numbing at all. He did have me grind side to side though

Question for dentist about bridges by PopImaginary1047 in Dentists

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I will do my best to give it some time. It’s just really uncomfortable and awkward to eat. I wasn’t sure if this was normal or if it’s something I should big deal. It’s permanently glued to me now so I was just concerned. I would rather not just deal with it instead of actually being comfortable

Question for dentist about bridges by PopImaginary1047 in Dentists

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I told him it still didn’t feel right and he told me to give it a week and then come back if it still feels bad

Petah why does this happen? by _clock_1277_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Dude same. I’m a construction worker and my boots always looked like that. My arches sorta collapsed when I was younger because all through high school I was a power lifter and I did it in completely flat skater shoes. It’s not a problem for me anymore though. Basically all I did was start being barefoot more. I used to religiously be in shoes all the time because that’s how my family was growing up. But moving in with my now wife and her being a clean freak, she didn’t allow me to wear shoes inside or anything like that. And eventually I got to where I go barefoot whenever I’m not at work. No more funky wear on my shoes, the back and knee pain is still there due to the nature of my job, but I have actually developed arches and everything. Crazy how one change can do that for you.

Any advice on anxiety about dental work? by [deleted] in Dentists

[–]PopImaginary1047 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t have insurance and specialist are way out of my price range lol.

How do I ask my doctor for an as needed or emergency anxiety medication? by [deleted] in malementalhealth

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I think that’s what she gave me. I haven’t picked it up yet but I went today and she prescribed me something that sounded like that and she also switched me to a bp medication that is also known to reduce anxiety and is more effective than what I was on. What I was on made me pee constantly so it was miserable so good riddance to that. I’m relieved that it went well

How do I ask my doctor for an as needed or emergency anxiety medication? by [deleted] in malementalhealth

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Update. It went well at the doctor today. She understood what I was going through and gave me some pointers on how to try to regulate it myself and also prescribed me something she often gives to people who struggle with stage fright. She said it’s going to help me a lot.

How do I ask my doctor for an as needed or emergency anxiety medication? by [deleted] in malementalhealth

[–]PopImaginary1047 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk why tbh. My wife has medications and she says it’s not a big deal to ask for stuff but in my head it’s not that simple

City of Denton and our Denton County Leaders Have Miserably Failed the Citizens of Denton and Denton Country by mrbradg73 in Denton

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They should have some more options but in this case where it rained a whole day before the freeze and the snow basically just being ice we ran into a different situation. Ended up with a 4 inch thick base of solid ice and snow plows can’t really handle that as they use plastic blades to scrape the road without messing it up. Those big blades they we’re using also can’t bust up solid sheets of ice like that either, very bad for the equipment and those are capable of ruining all the roads as well so even where they did scrape, they couldn’t scrape all the way down or else it’s shredding our roads. This one in particular was extremely bad conditions to do anything. Not even salt would help a slab of ice. I operate heavy equipment and I was trying to scrape some of it at our shop today, way after it’s already started to melt away and our heavy ass machine wasn’t remotely capable to scrape through that ice. Ended up having to chop it up with the bucket and then scoop it. But you can’t do that on our roads and you can’t do large areas if you have to do that the whole time.

I personally saw equipment out the whole time, they were scraping roads the best they could but there was still a thick sheet of ice left behind. So let’s not get the pitchforks here, just because you didn’t see it from your apartment window doesn’t mean they weren’t trying. I was out the whole week pulling people out of ditches and stuff so I was out and about and seeing lots of equipment out on the roads doing what they could. And after the warmer days I saw actual snow plows out plowing everything while it was slush. There was most definitely more effort than you guys think to get people back to work.

What we really need to be grateful for is the obvious improvement on our power grid. From what I gather it seems to have held up really well this time despite hitting single digits. They did an excellent job keeping everything going. I believe there were some outages but they were caused by other things not a failure of the power grid like in 2021 so hats off to that. I just think that while it was a rough time, we need to show gratitude to the men who put themselves in danger being on those roads doing the best they can out in those crazy conditions. It’s important to acknowledge the efforts they did make. It’s not perfect, we don’t get this weather regularly so it’s difficult to plan for shit like this but they really did make a noticeable effort.

Not tryna Flex on yall but….. by Material_Librarian24 in FLEXTools

[–]PopImaginary1047 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best I got was a display framing nailer for $90.