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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I clench my teeth terribly and have a custom fitted guard from my dentist. Without it, I get terrible migraines and damage my teeth. I had to replace it last year and the new one has never been quite right. I keep taking it for adjustments, but sometimes I remove in my sleep. Usually it’s near my pillow. But sometimes I must hurl it because it turns up across the room.

We were tight on time this morning and I didn’t have time to locate it. NBD. Later when I came home, I used the bathroom. I closed the lid and flushed but in that moment I processed that something else had gone into the toilet. My flushing hand was ahead of my visual processing apparently. I lifted the lid (germ flume aieeeeeeee), and there, completing its final circle was my mouth guard. $700 literally down the toilet.

My precious but imperfect mouth guard is gone. The process for getting a new one is extremely undignified. Have you ever had a transvaginal ultrasound? Well, they use a wand that looks just like that, you close your mouth around it, and it’s wiggled around to 3D image your teeth while you’re instructed to shift your mouth and tongue various ways. It’s marginally a family forum so I won’t say more about the excruciating personal discomfort coupled with attempts to repress snort laughs induced by this process.

My theory is that I must have tossed it into the clean basket of laundry at the foot of my bed, and the guard was somehow entangled in my pants or underpants. Yes, I dressed from the laundry basket this morning. I’m not sure how I wouldn’t have felt it but I can’t imagine how else it ended up in the toilet.

So, if you’ve made a mistake today, or done something foolish, at least you didn’t do this.[/quote]

Thank you!! I’ve had a miserable day and this made me laugh.  I’ve had this luck before, except my mouth guard fit perfectly a was $800 and was yellowing from use.  Because it’s such a pain to replace- I feel your pain - I only did when absolutely necessary.[/quote]

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