I threw away my teeth

[Patri]

Sort of. But it got your attention, didn't it?
During my Covid cleaning, I found a couple sets of mouth molds the dentist made for DH and me, I suppose when we got crowns. He said to keep them so if we ever met an untimely demise, a coroner could match them to the teeth on the body to identify us.
I'm going to take my chances on a natural death in familiar surroundings. The kids' wouldn't even have known the molds were under the bathroom sink.

 

[wackymother]

What the--? What a super weird thing for a dentist to say! He must have been kidding. Even if you died an untimely death, you would also have to die an untimely GRUESOME death for dental records to be the only way to identify you!

 

[rickandcindy23]

Agree! Crazy thing for a dentist to think about. How many times does this come in handy?

 

[easyrider]

This Dentist may have been from the Twilight Zone .

Bill

 

[Patri]

He did say it was gross to mention.

 

[Brett]

He did say it was gross to mention.

- yes
After I got a tooth implant I threw away the "flipper" thing
(I'm counting on not having an untimely gruesome death)

 

[DaveNV]

Actually, it happens. I'll spare everyone the specifics, but a former employer died accidentally in his home. He lived alone. They didn't find him for several weeks. Dental records were all they could use to identify him.

Dave

 

[wackymother]

Actually, it happens. I'll spare everyone the specifics, but a former employer died accidentally in his home. He lived alone. They didn't find him for several weeks. Dental records were all they could use to identify him.

Dave

But he was in his own home! So they could call his own dentist and ask for his dental records. They didn't need to go looking through the medicine cabinet for molds of his teeth.

 

[PigsDad]

Actually, it happens. I'll spare everyone the specifics, but a former employer died accidentally in his home. He lived alone. They didn't find him for several weeks. Dental records were all they could use to identify him.

Were the cats well fed?

Kurt

 

[DaveNV]

Were the cats well fed?

Kurt

Let's just say he did own two cats, and we'll leave it at that.

Dave

 

[wackymother]

Let's just say he did own two cats, and we'll leave it at that.

Dave

My daughter's lovely boyfriend is in school to become a funeral director. We have some extremely interesting conversations.

 

[clifffaith]

My daughter's lovely boyfriend is in school to become a funeral director. We have some extremely interesting conversations.

Ack! Reminded me that when I was around 12 I brought home an undertaker's text book from the library. I can still see one "before" photo in my mind's eye. Ugh!

 

[Tank]

When we were kids , we walked by a dentist office on our way to school and those were always outside of his building
We use to play with them - clack - clack- clack.
Yuk

Your headline reminded me of my dad. We went to California for a wedding. On a house boat on Lake Shasta eating jerky standing on the back of the boat cruising he spit a piece of fat off the back. His teeth went with it, very clear water he yelled for us to jump after them.
I was laughing so hard I would have drowned.

I can still see those rocks disappearing into the deep water

Dave

 

[DaveNV]

Your headline reminded me of my dad.

I can still see those rocks disappearing into the deep water

Dave

Oops!

My Stepdad was out to eat dinner with my Mom one time. He left the table and went into the men's room at the restaurant. He stood in a cubicle to urinate, then reached down and flushed the commode. In what must have been the fastest muscles in history, in the same split second he popped out his upper denture, and proceeded to squirt some denture adhesive on it that he carried in his pocket. When he went to reinsert the denture, it slipped out of his grip and up, into the air.

***(Do the visual with me here)***

In a purely ultra-slow motion moment in history, he tried to catch it. Slip, flip, tip, oh, nope -- it ricocheted from one hand to the other, and then... SPLASH! Right into the commode. Just as it finished the flush. !!!!!! !!!!!!

He did the walk of shame back to the table where my Mom was waiting. He sat down quietly, without a word. She asked him what had taken so long. And with a deadpan face, he said, in a voice that only comes from someone without teeth trying to speak: "I flushed my teeth down the toilet."

My Mom just stared at him, until it dawned on her what he'd said.



You can't make this stuff up. For years afterwards, every time the story was told, everyone in the room ended up in fits of laughter. I still crack up when I picture that scene in the toilet stall.

Dave