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About Teeth

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  Me, my clean, top teeth, and a gourd as a hat. My teeth ache. There is a reason; I had my teeth cleaned. There is a plethora of dentists in this area and last week I shopped around to get the best deal. Last year I paid 50 euros for a simple cleaning that left me underwhelmed. That dentist also gave me a check-up and advised me that I should get a teeth guard. I don’t remember the quote they gave me but even with the member’s discount, it was exorbitant. They told me that I grind my teeth at night. I told them that I didn’t want a teeth guard—I didn’t tell them that in fact, I grind my teeth during the day, not at night—well, perhaps I grind them at night too—but the point is, they made assumptions and I hate it when people make assumptions about me and I’m not going to wear a teeth guard during the day. So, this year I avoided the teeth-guard-dentist and popped into the dentist’s where I had had an emergency repair of a chipped front tooth in February. When I went in for that ...