[Closed] Teeth...do you still have all yours?

I'm not a dentist, but I have two molars missing! one bottom one side, one top the other, and it's caused me no issue. I'm 51.

Still got my wisdom teeth, though I'd not say I'm particularly wise 😉

I'm 29 and keeping them all has cost me ~£3100 since February :'( Go to the hygenist regularly people!

I lost half of my two front upper teeth to a particularly wild backhander playing squash with a mate at uni. I had 2 temporary caps fitted in order to go on a field trip to Spain. While there I did a spot of bouldering in our study area and pulled a large flake of rock off resulting in 40 stitches for facial reconstruction, a splint on my broken nose, and both front teeth and a third one next to them being completely destroyed. After the face healed I was fitted with 3 ceramic crowns over titanium rods and they haven't given me a moments trouble in the past 34 years. I also now have a couple of crowns on my lower molars.

Not only am I Scottish, but I had a demon dentist in my youth.
4 missing molars here, not an issue apart from when eating kettle chips with a drink in. Can lead to some minor gum shredding.

My dad had 3 missing molars- 2 were side by side so he had a massive gap. Didn’t cause him any issues. He was too tight to have replacements.

Nope had one extraction.

Some of my teeth aren't in great condition. Getting a few roots pulled out on a few weeks. Otherwise they are fine 😂

My teeth seem to be made of cheese. Got a lower left molar missing and an upper right molar missing. So far no major issues.

Dentist said they could try and save one of the teeth, but said it would only extend its life for a few years and would eventually have to come out. So I figured I'd just go for it.

One extraction, no fillings at 50.

No extractions, one filling when I was 18. I am in my sixth decade

One molar completely gone, one mostly gone. Used to have a crown it but lost it about 5 years ago and couldn't be arsed spending the money to replace it.

My teeth are generally shit; If I won the lottery I'd have the ****ing lot pulled and a Hollywood smile installed.

Losing a few made no difference to eating - but now I'm down to 16.5 of the original 32, it's beginning to be a problem. Hang on to them if you can, because when you've lost a few more, you'll wish you still had them - but I agree, sometimes it's not practical. Most of mine went after the root canal became impossible to fix, perhaps because of a crack. They were fine until I was about 50 (66 now). I'll soon have decide whether to have implants (expensive) or a plate.

Four teeth lost, the uppers from front left, their roots were weaker than the back of a lorry shocker. Not a good way to spend Xmas in hospital, days after your 40th birthday.

I'm 41 and still have some of my milk teeth. My 13 year old son will be the same  x-rays show he has no replacement for some of his.

I have my wisdom teeth but am missing the last lower molar on each side. They clashed with top ones, so chipped early. Various probs, failed root canal then pulled. There's no pain in a gap, which sure beats an abscess. Thought I'd try a gap before stumping up for an implant. Piled into steak and chips and found that fine, then discovered the advantage that I can really brush the others well with a gap, so kept the gap. Then the same all happened to the other side, hence two. Been like that 10 years I guess. I could "afford" implants, I just don't see a need.

lost my 2 front upper teeth at 17. got kicked in the face whilst diving down for a loose rugby ball.
lost on of my front bottom teeth with a punch from a bloke outside a pub in my early 20's.
lost 2 bottom teeth on the left when i was elbowed in the face playing rugby. it broke my upper jaw and loosened all the upper teeth but they settled. the bottom ones fell out.
also lost my 2 bottom wisdom teeth.

I’m 41 and still have some of my milk teeth. My 13 year old son will be the same x-rays show he has no replacement for some of his.

Never heard of that - aren't they really small?

Lost a molar playing lacrosse (sport hurts).

Didn't fancy a bridge (as it buggers the teeth either side).

Left it too long to get an implant - the teeth either side have angled in a bit - so I won't bother now, it's been 20ish years.

Lost a lower front playing basketball of all things and a crushed molar from when wisdom teeth came through which had to come out and the molar above that is dropping down in to the gap and needs to come out. The rest are still there but shit.

I had one molar pulled when I was about 30. Was offered treatments, but didn't want lots of drilling etc.

Just lost my last milk tooth at 41; it cracked at Christmas, dentist tried to repair but the gum ended up infected so they pulled it. Tbh there wasnt much holding it in as it hardly had any roots. The next door neighbour (approx 55/60) still also has some milk teeth.

You get used to the gaps tbh, like above the occasional sharp crisp can dig into the gum, but it's a very rare occurrence.

Had to have a crown earlier this year, was my own fault, filling fell out last year and due to Covid i never really pushed to get it fixed, so roll on a year and breakdown and it then becomes an issue when it's down to the exposed root!

Have to say, not really an issue in terms of pain, just the time it takes to prep it, not sure i'd love to get another tooth reshaped into a stump to throw a crown over, but a few folk i know also aren't fans of having the gap which can be an issue when chewing or eating something hard or annoying without thinking.

It's all personal though, nobody will see a gap due to a molar, but it will take time to heal and close up properly, and the chance of infection, receeding gum, etc.

Sadly not, one upper molar missing from each side, makes me self-conscious smiling sometimes.

One was due to neglect, the other an accident, had it fixed twice but the 3rd time it broke there wasn’t enough left to do anything with.

I’ve been quoted about £1500 to bridge both of them, maybe one day.

1 wisdom gone 1 molar out aged about 14 which has left a hazelnut sized gap! too many fillings tho

now I’m down to 16.5 of the original 32

Beats me. I've got 22. Kinda.

I had four perfectly healthy molars pulled when I was a kid due to "overcrowding" and two upper premolars removed I think because they were rotten (but they might also have been to make room?). My first ever wisdom tooth started erupting earlier this year, in my late 40s.

I really need to see a dentist. I have a knackered tooth (lower premolar) which was 50:50 whether it could be saved or not a few years ago and some of the worst pain I've ever known, and I need a couple of fillings if not half a dozen. The last time I had an appointment I was late and the dentist's practice I'd been going to for 40+ years struck me off for "non-attendance" right before Covid hit and everything closed down. The "you are entitled to a dentist" NHS helpline basically laughed in my face.

I'm 47, have one filling and all my own teeth. I have one milk tooth - a molar. Its starting to show it's age now. Suspect I'll have lost it by the time I hit 50/51.

Oh yeah, and my front two upper incisors are fake, they're crowns and titanium. In class aged about 12 the local bully threw a punch at me, I ducked and ****ted them on the desk snapping both in half. No end of trouble that's given me over the years.

Lol @ton it wouldve been quicker to list the teeth you still have 😃

The molar in question for me has already had (failed) root canal work plus a crown but the whole top half fell out (when I was chewing a Clif Blox of all things). So now I've got a stump of a tooth still in place. Luckily, it's not causing any pain but is infected so I need to do something.

I guess if money were no object, I'd get an implant. Hopefully, I can just get the stump pulled and then put an implant in (much) later, should funds allow....

57, I have all my own teeth, though 1 may be on borrowed time.

I've got all my teeth minus half a front tooth which I left in a lamppost when I wheelied the birthday present bike my Dad had just given me (and failed to tighten the front wheel in the fork).

Im 40 and missing two molars, doesn't bother me at all.
Would probably have false ones fitted for a missing incisor but not worth it for a molar. Still got all my wisdom teeth too.
**** knows what my dental records say though, my dentist served two years for fraud, claiming NHS funds for all sorts of work he hadn't done (when I was a student and so on his NHS list) Luckily I haven't died and had to be identified by dental records

Once you have two rear ones missing from one place it gets harder to eat normally. I e ded up getting a couple of implants fitted. It's a long process, and a bit distressing at points. I also frequently "feel" the area where the implants went in which isn't comforting and I don't want to repeat the process. But I can eat properly again on both sides now. Think it was about £1200/implant.

I have 22, had four extractions to make room for the wisdom teeth and a further four wisdom teeth extracted due to impaction (small mouth). I had a first filling at 42. Just had it replaced with a white one - twelve years later and I did not visit a dentist for 10 of those years. My teeth are apparently made of granite. I have upped my oral hygiene with teepee sticks and the hygienist gave my gums a clean bill of health.

I was not so lucky in the eye stakes though (+5 in both eyes now).

I have most of all of my teeth left, apart from wisdom teeth. Every now and then bits break off but they still seem to work ok. As long as I constantly chew Xylitol gum, the aching isn't bad enough to be a worry.

Yup, two wisdom teeth never came through but still in the jaw causing no issues so I have all 32 and not so much as a single filling yet which I hear is fairly unusual for someone in their 50s. Rest of family is more average so no idea where I went right.

I'm missing a top row incisor, but no gap because it was removed due to some overcrowding (it had angled in causing issues)

I've lost one wisdom tooth due to mechanical damage and the molar next to it has also been damaged because of the way my jaw works. I'm off to have a crown fitted to it this afternoon.

I took Mrs Scape to the same dentist to see if they would fit some wisdom teeth, but apparently he had heard that joke before.....

I had a 3rd set of upper teeth removed as a kid, followed by another 4 molars due for overcrowding. Last year I had a failed root-canal molar removed. This has left a gap. I thought maybe a denture, but really a 1 tooth gap is fine. Maybe a 2 tooth gap would need filling with something, but 1 is fine.

Well, this thread is slightly reassuring.

I've not been to the dentist for 18 years and I'm booked in for my first appointment next month. I'll be very surprised if nothing needs doing.

I'll definitely prefer an extraction over an implant.

I've had 14 teeth extracted - 6 milk teeth which needed a helping hand, 4 adult teeth to relieve overcrowding and all 4 wisdom teeth which were removed under general anaesthetic in hospital.

since then i've had a couple of small fillings to correct defects (holes in the side of my teeth) one root canal filling (which has been hanging in there for about 12 years) and i've got one crown - back tooth on the bottom.

I'm 48. Not been to the dentist since before COVID so really should book a visit.

49. Full set of teeth. Not a single filling. I seem to be somewhat unique on here, in that respect. I find it quite disturbing how many teeth some of you have lost, and the problems you've had. A big factor in dental health is childhood diet. Were you all malnourished as children??

Never had any wisdom teeth, got all the rest and no fillings. That I was brought up in the west of Scotland In the late 70s/80s makes that something of a minor miracle!

I did have to get some baby teeth removed as they weren’t for budging.

I knocked a tooth out when I was about 16 and also killed my two front teeth, the one I knocked out was put back and stayed put but slowly moved and led to my other teeth moving as well as the three dead ones going very grey. Years later I finally decided to get them properly fixed which meant I needed braces to move everything back to the correct position before I could have an implant and veneers. It cost me about £10k but was worth every penny given the outcome.

52 and minus 1 molar (really painful infection) and have 1 filling.
School milk in my youth innit 😉

I've got all mine apart from 2 upper premolars which my dad took out many years ago