Nothing but the tooth
May. 14th, 2003 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j4I've realised that a lot of the reason I'm unhappy with the way my face looks is that half-length tooth that I have. People have told me in the past that it's cute, and I used to think that it gave my face "character", but the more I see it in photos the more I think it just looks stupid. So, should I get it fixed? (Getting it fixed would probably be expensive and might be painful.)
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Date: 2003-05-14 05:32 am (UTC)There's nothing actually broken with it, it just never grew to the right length. Silly thing. I had an extra half-tooth behind one of my other teeth, too (which was [painfully!] removed) so maybe it's tooth karma or something.
On the other hand I wouldn't say it was a particular self esteem issue. Unless you dislike yourself for your tooth
It's not that I dislike myself for the tooth, more that I think I look ugly (because I'm not happy with myself-as-a-person) and I may just be trying to blame that feeling on one particular feature. By fixing the tooth I may be treating the symptom rather than the cause. If you see what I mean.
As for what I think of the matter.
<grin> Rambling, but yes, it makes sense, and thank you. :-)
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Date: 2003-05-14 05:46 am (UTC)And if the tooth is fully healthy, just little then I have no idea whether it would be painful or not. From my understanding if it is still healthy then it will probably still have a nerve and so on which will mean whatever is done will probably be done under anaesthetic. On the other hand I have had teeth that have been fully helathy and remove (a set of four in fact) and that wasn't too bad. Anaesthetised and gappy afterwards. No actual pain so I see no reason that this shoudl be painful. I guess we need a dentist to tell us for sure though. :)