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Popcorn... the bad side

1 by Hunter
Founder
... Getting it stuck in your teeth. I have a piece stuck right up the side of one of my front teeth, and do you think it will come out? Nope. I've tried brushing around it, poking it, using a toothpick until the pick itself decayed, using warm water to flush it out, chewing gum to try and suck it out - NOTHING gets it! I am a little concerned now that if I leave it in there (I can feel it everytime I clench my teeth together or press on the tooth) it's goling to cause problems. My gums have bled a lot from where I have irritated them with the toothpick and brush.

Go to the dentist or wait a day? :x

6 by d3jake
Elite SG Elder
I've had a bit of popcorn stuck in my gum before. I just gave it part of a day to break down a bit.
"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
-Steven Wright

10 by ghhyrd
Elite SG Admiral
Use a Hammer. Not the SG one though, I wouldn't trust him around my Teef....
'Memory and imagination are but one thing, which for diverse considerations, have diverse names'
¦- F R E D E N T H U S I A S T -¦

11 by Snail
Elite SG Admiral
Hunter wrote:Well, it's still in there - but it's causing next to no gum irritation and I can't even feel it anymore. Guess I will have to play the waiting game.
On account of the poking, flossing, bleeding and failed attempts at removing it, I guess the cure was much worse than the problem. :P

13 by ghhyrd
Elite SG Admiral
Hunter wrote:Yeah. It still bleeds if I brush around it too much. It must be literally in the gum... :-/
Wait would be the obvious choice here. Unless you are of course happy with the realtively young field of popcorn-removal surgery :P
'Memory and imagination are but one thing, which for diverse considerations, have diverse names'
¦- F R E D E N T H U S I A S T -¦
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