I think I’ve shared a few times in the past about how important oral hygiene is, but this post is a bit different. This is my story of “how NOT to pick up a date” sponsored by CREST Complete.
When I was young I was a bit wild. I went out to clubs, cruised the streets with the girls, and never had a problem having a good time. However, my teeth suffered since I didn’t take care of them as well as I should have and when I was 22 years old I had a bunch of root canals, caps, and teeth extractions. By the way, this is a true story. If you don’t believe me ask Patty and Natalie, they were there and to this day Patty nearly wets herself laughing whenever I bring it up.
I’m not entirely sure if it was 1988 or 1989, but I know it was Halloween. Natalie, Patty, and I decided to drive to Saratoga, NY to go to a club and watch some guy friends of ours play. We were all kind of dating different guys in the band and wanted to impress them with our sexiness so we rented costumes and went dressed as Playboy Bunnies. I wish I had a picture of the three of us. I think Patty might have one some where and if she ever finds it I will be sure to post it for Wordless Wednesday. Anyway, earlier that day I had oral surgery and my mouth was EXTREMELY swollen and painful. I had tons of pain killers too because the quack I had seen earlier in the week to do an extraction accidentally sewed my cheek to my gums (hence the surgery earlier that day). My mouth was a mess and I had cotton shoved in an area that had dry socketed. Although I looked “hot” overall – my face was somewhat a mess.
Anyway, we were on our way to Saratoga and Patty was driving while I was in the front seat and Natalie in the back. We had our music blaring and we were being playful with the guys in the cars as we drove. We were even whistling and hooting at the guys walking down the street. Good times. Eventually we happened upon a red light with a nice looking guy standing at the corner. We were all checking him out and Natalie was trying to make googly eyes at him. I remember saying, “let me show you how that’s done”. I rolled down the window to say something charming and flirtatious to the guy BUT the only thing that happened when I opened my mouth was a bunch of slurred words escaped with a mouthful of slobber. I had totally forgotten that the novicaine hadn’t wore off and I couldn’t feel my face, let alone talk properly without drooling on myself.
I will never forget the guys face.
I will never forget how hard we laughed.
I will never forget to brush, floss, and rinse again.
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Disclosure: This post was sponsored by P&G. I received the same oral hygiene products as this giveaway includes.
I’ve never been asked to tell an oral hygiene story! My grandmother swallowed one of her crowns once.
Wow Mary Beth – that must have sucked.
I remember when I was little I was scared to pull out my teeth, unfortunately one made its own way out and I swallowed it while eating a piece of chicken.
I remember one of my oolder relatives sneezing his false teeth out at a family gathering. Sure made me want to take care of my teeth.
I was the weird one who liked the dental visit among all kids.
Dentist never really bothered me until I got older…now I’m always afraid.
With your story that was an embarrassing moment.Hope you learned from that experience.I remember to when I was a child I hate dentist but now I really like my dentist because she help me how to make my smile looks better.
I have a dental phobia – when I was a kid the dentist started drilling before the anesthetic took effect
I used to work in a customer service call center. Our cubicles were in rows. I was friends (totally had a huge crush) on the guy across the way from me. When calls were slow, we’d always stand up and chat. One time, he says ‘Wow your breath must be really bad because I can smell it all the way over here!’ I was, of course, mortified! We had kind of a silly relationship, so I know he wasn’t trying to be mean, just joking around. Nevertheless, I never went another day without breath mints on my desk! LOL
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I am usually the one to point it out that others have something in their teeth, b/c i would like someone to tell me if i had stuff in mine. I dont think ive ever wandered around all day with something on my teeth.
I used to be really thorough with brushing my teeth when i was a kid but i got holes in them anyway. Last couple of years i have been kind of slacking of with brushing and i never get any holes anymore 😮