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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of this is genetic. I also think that woman tend to have more dental problems than men. I had at least three cavities every dentist visit when I was a girl and my brothers hardly ever had any. My mother has a mouthful of crowns and fillings, and my dad has had a total of two cavities his whole life.

I got my first crown when I was 26. I am now 35, and am up to 9.  The process is physically not too difficult or painful. But I find getting crowns a little depressing from an emotional standpoint. The process involves having one’s real tooth essentially drilled down to a stub and then being condemned to  a fake tooth facsimile glued to that stump for the rest of your life. It feels like a tiny part of me is no longer my own, and there is a twinge of sadness when I sit under the drill and another molar is turned into tooth dust a capped with a temporary piece of acrylic that is like a fake nail. It almost seems like an oral manifestation of my anxiety about never having been married and being childless at this age. Am I destined to be 45 with no kids but a mouth that has more porcelain than real enamel.

I know this is a first world problem, and there are much, much worse problems than having bad teeth that have to be crowned at an early age. But this post “hits a nerve,” while I am feeling a bit depressed and just lost another real tooth to the drill and gained another fake tiny part last week. [/quote]

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