Sectorgame

... 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?

Floss?

All I get is blood.

Fingernail?

Pliers?

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.

Part of a day? I've had popcorn shavings come out of my gums a week later.

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.

And wait for it to come off in a week...?

Use a Hammer. Not the SG one though, I wouldn't trust him around my Teef....

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.

Yeah. It still bleeds if I brush around it too much. It must be literally in the gum... :-/

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

I am assuming it will come out like any splinter would. Heck, I am not even sure it is there anymore.

it will eventually dissolve, either completely, or the point where it just comes out on its own.