Hope you all had a better 420 than I [A Dental Hygiene Dilemma kind of day] Thank goodness for my vape *promote cannabinoids

I've had a lot of dental work, but I've never had drugs like these people get. What the hell are they taking?

Poor woozie babies. Last year, after my Elwood came home from a dental procedure, he was so comfortable curled up in my lap he just peed. Jake pees in the carrier before we even see the vet ... no need for drugs. Reminds me, gotta stock up on pee pads before their yearly exams this coming Monday. Sigh

I'm going to stick with the teeth metaphor and say that maybe the dentist should have performed some extractions when he saw rotting teeth. Or maybe enacted some dental cleaning regimen. Then patients wouldn't have to be given some morphine button to press to ignore the pain they can't manage to ignore.

Metaphor aside, this was a feature I asked for a long time ago too, but looking back on it I realize I was wrong. You can't just ignore problems.

I've seen a variation on that trick before. The blue sheet is "dental dam" or something similar, a very stretchy rubber that goes transparent when it's pulled really tight.

Poke a coin into the bottom of the dental dam, stretch the dam so the coin pushes through, sort of like a mushroom. It appears to be on top, but in reality there's a very thin layer of transparent rubber on top of the coin. The right kind of pressure and the bottom coin just pops out the bottom of the sheet.

Voila. Magic!

(search "dental dam coin trick" for lots of examples, the usual one is to pop the coin into a glass)

It's unfortunately quite easy to rebut.

Google "heart disease India" (or any other country with a large percentage of vegetarians).

The problem is more complicated than that single factor. I would personally recommend people eat less meat and more plants, but I can't accept that website's premise. Eating lots of sugar and refined grains for instance is quite bad for coronary health too (and very relevant to India's problems with the disease), and studies have also linked poor dental health with coronary heart disease.

Seriously though, if he's making so much damn money, you'd think he'd spend more on dental surgery.

I would like to note I've had people actually tell me the loose river stone they use in playgrounds like this is actually "nanny state".

This looks more like "non-dental surgeon state".

Gonna need a little dental surgery...

It's easy to cherry pick from a bygone era - bypassing the racism and sexism of post war britain, not to mention capital punishment, the lack of a national health system and terrible childhood death rates , shocking dental health and the fact that many couldn't afford glasses.

Australia for arguments sake, but your assumption that my post was about one upping the US is incorrect.

I find the situation sad when so many people are so poorly treated by a system and yet still perpetuate that system. You mention not being able to play a game due to a lack of freedom, but how is that an issue compared to not getting medical or dental care for a child? Access to life saving drugs without mortgaging not only your own future, but the future of your kids. Oh woo-fucking-hoo, you can buy the handful of games our censors knocked on the head, but you can't feed your homeless or pay your retired police/firefighters pensions. You can't guarantee a living wage for huge swathes of the population so a few people can have even larger money vaults. Your security apparatus crawls through your vaunted rights at will, and convinces the populace that the guy shining a light on just how undermined US freedom really is, is a traitor...

If all I was concerned about is feeling superior, I could stop right there, mission accomplished.

But it's not. It's fucking sick that so many people eek out shitty existences for the protection and perpetuation of a tiny portion of the population. Feudalism at least was honest, you were born in the dirt and you died in the dirt.

American's are, from my experience, just people like everyone else. For the most part, wonderful people. I've met so many great people on my travels to the US. They deserve better, they fought and bled and worked for better. So how is it most never even get close?

It's not about who's better, or more fortunate, or who's national dick is collectively longer. It's about giving good people a fair chance rather than the so called 'representatives' conspiring to stack the game against them.

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1,2,1,2,3,4
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In a hurry to be fed, beady eyes and big blue head.

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Why does everything I whip leave me?
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In the car (repeat)

Well you see I'm in hot pursuit!

There are only two things I love in this world - everybody and television!
#The Simpsons
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I want to go to there.

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An oil tycoon - like a.. moustache,
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What'd she say? I think she bought it,
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C'mon let's take a drive! A drive?
Number 5 is alive!
It's only a laugh, no harm done,
Pickles, french fries, yum yum yum,
Bueller, Bueller, Bueller,
It's 2 degrees cooler,
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long,
Six words in the whole song.

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We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
Give me my 20,000 in cash,
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I think you woke up the dead with that blast
We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass,
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Lois, this is not my Batman glass,

Dental implants aren't covered by insurance, because they're cosmetic. In fact, most (all?) executive dental plans provided by major corporations don't even cover them.

I paid 2k for a dental implant after talking my dentist down from 5k. Why did I pay this hefty price instead of getting a bridge, which is covered by my usually very decent insurance? I did it to save my surrounding teeth, which would have been widdled down to nubs in order to support the bridge (that's why it's called a bridge).

Bridges should be an outdated procedure, replaced by the superior implant, because we have the technology to avoid it.

But, well, we highly value the SUCCESS of dentists and insurance company scam artists, who desperately need new Ferraris. Afterall, they paid successful education scam artists to become dentists and insurance zombies, so they need to pay off them loans -- with your money, of course.

Oh it's a vicious first world cycle. lol

That makes it much easier to understand why some folks cross the border to Tijuana for their dental treatment. Or Poland...

No dental insurance (family is lending /giving me the money) but I do have state medicaid(ins). My understanding is that if i get hit by a car im good to go but when it comes to fixing my teeth no such luck.