Rotten Teeth

Livin Forgiven: Sometimes this christian thing is like pulling teeth! ....ah, this encouraged me sumthin' good.

i've had really weird taste in my mouth, and wondering if it's my sinuses... or my teeth.

since i got my retainers added onto a few years ago (good ol' tooth-drift after a few years with braces off), i've not been flossing adequately.

i'm arguing with myself now: remove the retainers, remove vanity, remove the barriers to good dental health (i have 11 teeth bonded together with wire and glue)... crooked teeth, so what?

or... keep the retainers, keep the barriers to good dental health... i don't think there's still vanity about my teeth, but then why would the idea of just letting my teeth drift irk me so?.... there are practical reasons - it was screwing up 'my bite'....

maybe this worry i have about rotten teeth is just that - a worry. tsk tsk! ;) .... or maybe it's God rooting out the last remnents of vanity from me? (tho i'm sure it would be far from the last! :P ) .... right now i do not have a settled peace about it either way - remove them or keep them....

my usual tactic when i do not have peace, it to not budge until i do. *but*.... one of my retainer wires has come unattached from one of the teeth that will likely float.... so if i do not do something soon, it may become a moot point. the dreaded tooth drift will be well under way....

but for now, i'm not going to do anything - i do not currently have the financial means to see a dentist, i'll have to find a new dentist!- and then have to wait a few months to get in, i'm sure.... i have a few priorities, money-wise, that will probably come before even this, if and when i have some 'xtra' money....

... so maybe that means that this is not a vanity issue per se... because i'm not scrambling to find the money to do it, putting it ahead of other priorities... if that's true, that's way kewl. :D