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EDIT; I can't reply to everyone individually but thanks for all the suggestions! Opiates are out of the question, doctors here will only prescribe those in terms of absolutely extreme suffering or end of life care. I also don't particularly feel interested in developing a hard drug habit. Diclofenac and such are available but also only on separate prescriptions, I'd have to visit another doctor for that. I'm well stocked on paracetamol & ibuprofen, and apart from that, lots of ice cream, pudding & soup :)

Also, since a fair few people seem to doubt the veracity of my story, here's the 22 extracted teeth (the other 10 were already gone in previous extractions).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I still don't understand how a lot of our organs evolved to self repair and generally be so sophisticated but our teeth need so much care to avoid pain and infection.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

The human diet changed so quickly and the ability to do things about tooth pain and infection aside from dying means that there isn't really evolutionary pressure in most of the world for teeth to meet the current "needs", as it were.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Sugar fucks you up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Our teeth do much better when we eat a diet that's more in line with our evolution. Check out pictures of primal tribes. They very often have beautiful smiles.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that people in primal tribes just die before this becomes a massive problem

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Not really AFAIK they still get up to 50-60, it's just the ungodly amount of child deaths that pull down the average to like 30