Eat Bread, Break Tooth. What Gives?
If you live long enough, you’ll get to experience the entire spectrum of indignities related to aging. How about broken teeth? It happened to me while eating a piece of bread. BREAD! What’s so difficult about chewing a piece of bread? Yet, it happens to lots of people that way.
Here are some of the ways your teeth can break:
Minor cracks
Cracked tooth
Chips
Broken cusp
Serious breaks
Split tooth
Vertical breaks or split root
Decay-induced break
And here’s what to do if it happens to you. And here’s one guy’s story about his bread-related broken tooth. And you? Has the bread thing happened to you?
December 27th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
What does it mean when you have dreams about breaking or losing teeth? I have heard it means that you are ill?
December 27th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I don’t what that means in a dream, but I bet it’s not good. Teeth are pretty central to one’s appearance.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I broke a tooth on a brownie one time, but given the ease with which it broke, I suspect whatever I had bitten on that evening would have caused it.
I’ve also chipped a tooth on a piece of particularly chewy bread.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I have heard all about the evils associated with not caring well enough for your teeth–my youngest daughter is finishing her last semester of dental hygiene school. I am constantly reminded to floss and brush… because the effects of poor dental hygiene are far reaching.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I’ve lost a few corners of molars on stuff like almonds, but not bread………………yet!
December 27th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Rhea,
Sorry about your tooth. it has nothing to do with age. I broke a tooth in Disney World while munching on a bit of Mickey Mouse peanut brittle. Also, I never finished a second half of a root canal. I went around for 5 years with a temporary filling on the tooth.
Yes, one day, it broke. I had no dental insurance but I paid a dr $275 just to tell me the tooth couldn’t be repaired. it had to be extracted and a $3500 bridge needed to be inserted. I just had the doc patch ‘er up again.
Eventually, DH did get dental insurance. he and I both had whatever dental thing could be done in that one year! LOL! As we knew his boss was dropping the plan the following year.
Now, 2 years later, I have my bridge and all chips in teeth have been repaired. Same for hubby. We go once a year for teeth cleaning and every 2 years for annual check up and pay cash for everything.
Such is life. I don’t think age had anything to do with it on our parts. just stupidity.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Eat softer bread.
This getting older is a raw deal, but, so far, I’ll take it.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
I’ve heard that dreaming of losing teeth has to do with a sense of losing control in one’s life. Don’t know where I heard it, though.
As for my own experiences regarding teeth and bread…
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com/2007/08/sox-cicada-killers-celtics-sandwiches.html
(It’s the last part of it, directly under the photo of Death. Ignore my ramblings about the Celtics. I was mostly dead wrong.)
December 27th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I broke off a crown while eating scrambled eggs at a hoity toity restaurant in Vail!
I found the funny little foreign object in my eggs, and my brother in law complained to the poor waiter.
Fortunately, there was no pain–but I did not even quite realize what had happened until we were driving home and my tongue finally found the empty spot in the back of my mouth.
Back in Denver, $700 later, I had a new silver crown.
The dentist said my tooth had been a sort of accident waiting to happen.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
On the first day of my vacation in Rome I broke off a front tooth eating a piece of nice crusty bread. Fortunately it was a capped tooth so it wasn’t painful just unattractive.
December 27th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Cilicious: I can’t help but feel really sorry for the waiter in Vail. Can you locate him and apologize?
December 27th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
No broken teeth on bread yet but the way my life is going, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it doesn’t happen soon! Either that or, with my luck, something even softer like custard will be the culprit!
December 27th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I broke a filling on gummy bears once. And was I pissed!!!
December 27th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
just this last month….fractures tooth on PASTA, broke in half, prep and crown, 3 weeks later toothache, tooth in front of pretty new crown dying and fractures where large filling is, need root canal and 2nd crown…caching…cool 1000 bucks.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Each time I break a tooth my dentist describes the crystaline structure of tooth enamel and once it gets a hairline crack, anything can cause it to go. I’ve avoided problems now for awhile but after each checkup he kids me about still needing to get his kids through college and be sure to call him if anything goes out again
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December 27th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Bread?! Not so far, no…. but I am forever crashing my coffee cup (not to mention beer bottles) into my two front teeth. Each and every time it happens, I KNOW I’ve broken hell out of both of them, but so far, apparently, I have a Tooth Angel protecting me. Maybe it’s a Beer Bottle Angel. Hmmmm.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Mine broke off not eating bread, in fact not eating anything; I woke up to find my tooth broken off and lying on my tongue! I guess it was time for it to go. And time for a bridge. That was 12 years ago… and my visit to the dentist last week gave me the news that it’s time for a new bridge. Ouch.
December 28th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I have a hole in my tooth from where the replacement filling was put for the silver/amalgam filling had been … oh you know this is HARD to describe. The second filling fell out a few weeks ago anyway. I’m very disappointed. I have no dental insurance. Who has that these days? Pricey stuff that dental work. And I’m not looking forward to having it taken care of. It’s in a tooth that butts up against a crown and the crown never looked or felt stable to me. I’m afraid this is going to be some extensive work. *sigh*
Calling this week to make the appointment. I know it is not good having this deep crevice in my tooth.
December 28th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Something as soft as bread – it must have been ready to break. Your story reminded me of that weird day years ago when I took a bite into a pumpkin-raisin muffin (soft + chewy as can be) and said “Wait, what the–” I could feel the root canal metal which meant the tooth part (the real tooth) had cracked off. A seriously expensive repair job. C’est la vie.
December 28th, 2007 at 1:40 am
RIght now in my mouth I have not one, but TWO broken molars. One was broken years ago, the crown fell off about a month ago, and I haven’t gotten it fixed due to a lack of finances. The other tooth broke, oh, almost 1.5 years ago, I got all the work done except to put the crown on, and because of finances, have left it broken. I can’t afford crowns and in our fair state there is NO free dental. NONE. NOT One free dental place in the whole frigging state. Which means you have to go to the dental schools and they aren’t much cheaper than real dentists. So I live with broken teeth.
December 28th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Dental insurance is a godsend. My last few jobs have had it. Our society is so unfair. Why should some people be condemned to no health or dental insurance? It’s just wrong.
December 28th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Knock on wood……I haven’t brocken a tooth as yet, but I have pulled a gold crown off several times with chewy candies. I want to tell you that these Dentists are charging such OUTRAGEOUS prices that Insurance doesn’t even pick up on all of it. My last visit was a cleaning with xrays…..I was told that my Insurance covered everything, but then recieved a bill for $55.oo from the Dentist. He had done some kind of Sonogram thing in my mouth that detected decay that could not be seen with the naked eye nor felt with his little dental tool….ya know, that one they use to stick into your tooth to see if it will indeed stick, well, obviously my Insurance Co. thought it to be a crock of crap…….as did I, but was not told it wasn’t a covered technique. They are the kind of practice that calls saying how much money is left to collect from Insurance for that year and try their best to get you in for WHATEVER……THEY WANT THAT MONEY!!!! I informed them, I would not be back.
December 28th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Bummer!
I have not (so far) had that experience. Maybe it’s because my mouth has a high percentage of metal and composite fillings and crowns. Maybe there’s not much left to break. After my last dental experience 3 months ago, I am thinking that if anything breaks, it will have to just stay that way. Half of my tongue still has nerve damage from the shots of novocaine. This is the second time I’ve had my nerve nicked by a shot, but the first time it didn’t last this long.
I feel sorry for dentists. It must be hard to have a business that no one (that I’ve met, anyway) enjoys visiting.
December 28th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Yes! I broke a tooth on bread alone! It was the kind with hard seeds in it. So I think I win the prize for being the only one so far.
My dentist in Austin is so wonderful I’ve actually come to enjoy going, which is just as well as I needed six crowns after 35 years of free British National Health Service “treatment”. No kidding.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Ah yes, the teeth!!!! I’ve had good dental care my whole life, but at age 56 it seems that every time I fracture, chip, break or whatever one tooth, its time to fix the next one. Then my dentist, close to my age, somberly pronounces, “Well you know, your teet ARE 56 years old…” Thats when I feel like smacking her, even though she is actually a lovely lady!
December 30th, 2007 at 12:32 am
I have not yet broken a tooth but that’s because I have a pro-active dentist who tells me that my teeth are developing hairline cracks and insists on putting on caps or crowns (I never know the difference) on them before they actually break. That’s a drag too but at least I can plan for it!
May 31st, 2009 at 7:38 am
i lost half my tooth this morning eating toast which in its self is bread but one moment i was eating it the next i feel like theres metal in my teeth so i check in the mirrior and i notice the on my tooth where i have a filling was on the inside i had no tooth surrounding it so i could see all my filling!!!!