| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/3/2008 6:29:20 AM |
Why will they spend the money on a toy, but not on a good dentist?
That's a good point.
I don't know, maybe they're not conceited and try to enjoy life without staring in the mirror everyday.
The OP reminds me of one of the reasons why I don't care for Prissy Butts, they're all about being visual, but they personally lack substance underneath. That's why I think the Tomboys are more fun! | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/3/2008 7:11:53 AM | I know this guy that has no teeth but guess what, he's got a cheap harley. He is never without a woman and they go crazy just to ride with him. lol
Cheap Harley? never heard of one (unless its one of those leaking AMF brands).
No brainer on why they go crazy to go riding...vibration. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/3/2008 1:23:17 PM | There can be many reasons.
I think of the bad teeth I inherited from my father's side and the stories of him as a child dealing with a logging camp dentist that was paid by the tooth extracted. He among other children had some needless dental work done before the quack was put on the skids out of town.
My father has never really gone to a dentist despite an excellent dental care plan unless there has been a serious problem like his tooth was all black.
As a child I had horrible teeth and was always self conscience of my poor teeth. As a young adult I had two major 6 hour $10,000 upper and lower mouth reconstructions over a year.
I can see cost, pain and general fear of dentists as reasons people will live with what they are dealt. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/3/2008 1:49:35 PM |
Is it rude to ask people over the phone if they have a hygenic mouth? Maybe...it might also be interpreted as obsession.
Remember: in the end, the winner is the one with the most toys, not the shiniest teeth, most impervious bones, the cleanest cardiovascular system. At least those who proscribe Western civilization and capitalist values.
Now, for a little Dr. Schadenfreudian survey: How many men have not measured up to your Whiteness standards, OP? | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/3/2008 2:14:45 PM | Maybe they went to the dentist, like I did yesterday, and had to fork over $550 for 2 lousy fillings!
I met one guy years ago and his teeth were horrible -- yellow, stained, broken, missing. I had no interest in him at all and it had nothing to do with that, but I wanted to ask questions.
I floss after everything I eat and carry little flossers with me. I dated someone who didn't brush often and never flossed. When I asked why, he said he never had food caught in his teeth. I explained that flossing was for preventative dental health, etc., he just said he'd never floss and I left it at that. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/3/2008 3:17:57 PM | I was depressed for a very long time and my dental health suffered greatly. Actually my health in general did. I bought stuff in hopes that it would cheer me up, but it never did.
I simply didn't care enough about life to do everyday what it took to be and look healthy.
My appearance went to hell over my decade of depression. I did go to the dentist one day and had $3,700+ of work done.
My teeth are better now. I am on the mend. But I am still fighting everyday to give a shit about my appearance. It just doesn't seem important. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/3/2008 5:46:35 PM | | OP put it in your profile. That is what I have done. And I totally agree with you it just seems strange to me that someone would have a fancy car, etc. etc. and not take care of their teeth. This has happened to me and I did give the guy the name of my dentist. He brought the subject up when we first met so it wasn't like he was caught off guard by me giving him a referral. Actually he was very appreciative since he was trying to get his teeth fixed, and had not found a good dentist, and said that his teeth have been a deal breaker for most women. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/3/2008 9:50:54 PM | | I have a chronic fear of having a sneezing fit in the dentist chair. So much so, I asked the girl working on me last I was there. I said, what happens if I have to sneeze with all this shit in my mouth? She said, LOL, I dunno, I've never thought about that. I was like, guess we might find out. I sneezed and killed 3 people. I avoid dentists, to save lives. I'm noble like that. Bow to my pearly white skin and tan teeth. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/4/2008 12:32:36 AM | Harry Peter, I actually sneezed a couple of times during dental work.
They just chuckled and backed off for a few.
I wish I had the killing sneeze ability. I have often heard of it in legends. D: | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/4/2008 12:39:53 AM |
Same reason why so many women neglect their mental health.
Ohh, that's a good one. I'll have to remember that.
Yeah, I'd rather had a woman with bad teeth and decent sanity, than one with pearly whites and nutty. I'd rather have both, but if I had to choose. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/4/2008 7:38:02 AM | > Same reason why so many women neglect their mental health.
And drive crap cars. You forgot to mention that.
I'm sure it's part of the same complex.
> it just seems strange to me that someone would have a fancy car, etc. etc. and not take care of their teeth.
I think you gals look at way too many glossy magazines and dumb TV shows. Thus, your 'calibration' of reality is a bit off.
Maybe we need stiffer laws where no one is allowed to get a fancy car unless their teeth pass the "white enough" test. Come to think of it, I'm wondering why the dentist's lobby hasn't gotten such a thing through Congress already...
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/4/2008 9:45:22 AM | Demanding that someone have perfectly straight white teeth is not the same thing as requiring that someone have
a healthy mouth.
There are many studies that link poor oral hygiene (inflamed gums - untreated cavities) to some very serious health problems - with some of them leading to death or severe impairment.
So while I would never ask that someone have "good looking" teeth or even that they have their real teeth, having a healthy mouth and practicing good oral hygiene is a must.
Just my opinion(s).
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/4/2008 3:41:46 PM | I have to defend my fellow men here...I went on dates with women, who will drive up in their $45,ooo SUV, have $300 LV handbags, $300 jeans, $250 shoes, polished nails, pedicures, full tan, make up, jewelry out the wazzoo, but their teeth were like the MethMouth. (look it up, there is a website). All corroded, yellow, stained. My teeth arent perfectly straight, but I visit my dentist 4 times a year, just to have clean white teeth. I will take clean white teeth, over all that other nonsense any day!  | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/4/2008 8:12:58 PM | Part of the problem, OP, is you're focusing on one aspect of an overall package. It's no different than the unconscionably shallow women who refuse to date a man because he doesn't meet an arbitrary height requirement they've fixed in their head, even if they know he's otherwise a great guy. Such women, honestly, are deserving of simple scorn and derision, and until they learn to display basic human traits of decency, are undeserving of receiving same.
If you've found a great guy you get along well with, have similar interests, similar relationship goals, you laugh with, and are even physically attracted to some degree, but you're going to forget about it because his teeth aren't perfect, what does this say about you?
To me, it says you're looking for physical perfection, and won't accept anything less.
If that's the case, enjoy those lonely nights with the cat and a trashy romance novel.
The alternative? Accept that not everyone's (well, in fact, no one is) perfect, and enjoy your time with those guys who you otherwise seem to really be into. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/4/2008 9:14:03 PM | | What a relief, if I just get my teeth fixed up here's a lady who won't notice that I drive a 20 year old car, live in 35 yr. old mobile home and that I am as cross eyed as a British comedic sidekick........................... "right" | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/4/2008 9:46:43 PM | I "met" a man over the internet several years ago. Basically I was in love with him before I ever met him (saw pics but no smiles -- so many men wont smile in their net pics). He told me the day before we were to meet that he had bad teeth and was in preparation for dentures. He was very embarassed to tell me about his teeth so it isn't like he didn't care or wasn't aware.
I fell further in love, what a great guy with those bad teeth! I helped him with dental bills, got half done and then he wouldn't wear the denture because it "felt funny". I loved him but I knew people judged him harshly when he had no teeth in! I convinced him he needed to wear them for work so that people wouldn't think he was some hick or something. He did but right when he got home, he would take them out and I spent my life with a gummer listening to his tale of woe in the pain of not getting the other half taken care of.
He finally got the other half done and the smile is wonderful. Unfortunately, after getting them fixed on my dime, he has left and we have divorced.
I took a chance that crummy-teeth man would get them fixed and one day have a beautiful smile and he has -- just not smiling at me. Them's the breaks | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/5/2008 1:25:07 AM | | My teeth are stained (damn braces). I brush twice a day and keep up with my daily oral hygiene but the stains won't go away. If I had the money to get them whitened I would but alas, my money is sunk into my business for the moment so I don't have any to spend. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/5/2008 3:09:22 AM |
If that's the case, enjoy those lonely nights with the cat and a trashy romance novel. Uh oh, Senor Silent...so you're implying I should stop this and maybe begin dating a dentiste? | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/5/2008 6:43:10 AM | | they dont have dental insurance, they spend all their money trying to impress someone with a car or a bike they forget that taking care of ones self is top priority | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/9/2008 7:56:44 AM | | For me it's a big TURN-OFF if a guy doens't have a nice smile. I realize not everyone has dental insurance or been provided with dental care as a child. Although I prefer nice pearlies it would never prevent me from dating somone. | |
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| Why do so many men neglect their dental health
Posted: 5/9/2008 12:57:52 PM | There is a big difference between having PERFECT teeth and maintaining a HEALTHY mouth.
A bit on the crooked or uneven side isn't unhealthy...
A bit stained can be easily taken care of, for most people, and most of the time isn't unhealthy.
When teeth begin to decay, there is rarely any pain, nor when gums begin to recede, neither...
Add the eventual pain of NEGLECT, and a lot of guys will begin to make footing the bill for the dentist a priority but ONLY because they want the HURT to go away.
A lot of guys won't even go to the emergency room on their own unless the pain from some fractured limb interferes with something (like their driving), or someone else insists that a quart of blood is waaaay too much to ignore getting stitches.
Adult women have been going to the doctor for our annual examinations since high school. How often do adult men go in for a physical examination without the insistent nag of a job or insurance requirement or their wife?
Semi-annual cleanings aren't required by anyone but the person responsible for his/her own mouth.
If wanting my man to maintain his pearly-whites is too much, how can I believe that he won't have to keep them in a paper cup by the time he is 50? What about the rest of his health? One should never neglect their teeth (nor their feet).
They have to LAST a lifetime, and PREVENTIVE maintenance is key.
Mouth infections can lead to a multitude of heart issues, etc... also.
--Find that heart problems can also lead to erectile dysfunction, THEN you have a talking point with a lot of men, but ONLY after they can't regularly get it up.
Stained, yellow, decaying teeth also is a sign of an AGING person.
A majority of modern Western peoples are more attracted to someone who looks like they are in their "prime" or look "youthful."
That has had SURVIVAL value...
Ugly, neglected teeth are signs of someone past the prime of health. The same kind of attraction value wrinkles or a receding hair-line has is the same sort as for receding gums.
Rounded, lifted breasts for women? Flat tummies?
Tall with broad shoulders for men?
That breast-waist-hip ratio thing?
Most likely candidates for procreation had these traits. It is Darwinian.
These are mostly superficial constructs in the modern world, but the media has us convinced that waify women with long, blonde hair and tall, sculpted men are the standards for what is "normal" and "attractive," and the survival instincts towards potential mates don't flee thousands of years of selection.
...And, I assure you, those actors and models all have pretty mouths to go with those "ideal" bodies.
Start talking about the initial attraction to men by women, we also don't want to get snagged on unkempt fingernails or anything else we want you to touch us with!
Half you guys don't even wash your hands after visiting the toilet.
A possibly stinky, germy mouth doesn't increase your chances of getting us to want to kiss you, either.
--You do want to be kissed, right?
Oh, and don't forget to keep an eye on that grit under your nails while you are at it, Mister! | |
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