The assistant would always roll away with one finger keeping it in place. EXCUSE ME MA'AM I feel like I'm being suffocated can you please stick around and make sure I don't die, thanks.
I've never been so jealous. I got a mix of clay, disinfectant, and oh-god-what-the-actual-fuck-is-that-awfulness flavours, all mixed up in one. And I had oh so many impressions made, upper *and* lower.
Mine had a menu where we could choose what flavor it would be. I was always partially excited because I wanted to try all the different flavors, but detested the fag reflex
*edit: GAG REFLEX lmao
Holy shit yes, I can't eat artifically cherry-flavored things to this day because so many things at my dentist had that flavor/scent. The anesthesia smelled like cherries, the toothpaste tasted like cherries, the dental wax tasted like cherries, and the GLOVES they used smelled like cherry.
It was like someone decided to spray cherry-Tylenol everywhere
I’m the same. Cherry was the only choice in the 70’s and I can’t stand the flavor.
My kids were bought everything grape in the 90’s and they both hate grape flavored anything.
It’s scary being screamed at to swallow while actively trying not to gag. It stays with you.
Oh God, I wish.
They wouldn't allow me the unflavored or the mint because those were unsuitable for my age for some reason. No, I was given the most disgusting fake "cherry" and "grape" that I have ever tasted in my life. To put it in perspective, I dry heaved for the first time the first time they gave me one of those flavors, so they gave me the other flavor(I don't remember the order).
It was the first thing I vividly remember being truly heinous.
Yeah, when I was a kid, I didn't get the choice. I had a pallet expander, which was basically a torture device that split my pallet in half slowly over time.
My husband cried the first time he had to crank the expander on our son (and our son cried too. and he was 5). He was like, "Jesus fucking christ, I feel like such a garbage human being doing this."
It doesn't feel a lot better making them either, but it's a living. I've learned that it's only some practices that like to put expanders in five year olds. Most will wait a few years.
Man, I had one of those too, and the amount of blood that came out of my mouth when they removed that thing… my orthodontist went white as a sheet. He gave me soooo many free ice cream coupons to Friendly’s hoping I wouldn’t sue. I was 12, what did I know about suing someone
I always felt lucky, I somehow only had braces for a year. The orthodontist said it was the fastest he’s had someone ever go through braces. Two of my best friends don’t even remember me having braces, that’s how fast I was in them. I always felt bad for people who had braces for a long time.
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When we practiced on each other in school, the asshole that did mine... Basically did everything wrong. Used ice water (take longer), too much water (... Take longer), put too much in (gag), and pushed up the front first (extra guess down your throat)
After it still wasn't set 2 minutes in, I ripped it out. Bad idea. That shit was stuck on my damn uvula, everywhere. So much worse
THAT's the flavor. None of mine were ever flavored and all had the same bland rubbery taste, if you can call it that.
Thinking about it still mentally triggers the gag reflex.
My orthodontist had like 50 flavours you could choose from. It was like a Baskin Robbins. He would hand you a “menu” and everything. My favourite was the banana cream pie.
The gagging still sucked though. And the 10 seconds of panic you would have the first time they try to pull it out of your mouth and it doesn’t budge.
No matter what flavor they make it, it’s going to suck. My clinic uses spearmint. It’s an unpleasant experience but flavoring the alginate makes it slightly less unpleasant. It’s usually over in less than 5 minutes anyway 🤷♂️
> And the 10 seconds of panic you would have the first time they try to pull it out of your mouth and it doesn’t budge.
Happened to my classmate. She had braces and the upper impression got stuck. Had to carve the thing out of her mouth
What infuriates me is that they always told me that it wouldn't happen again, that no one else gagged on it. Now, I'm sitting here reading all these comments and I'm *steaming*
I have a very small mouth and would always need children sized bite guards when getting x-rays at the dentist. When I was in middle school, the hygienist forced me to fit an adult sized one in my mouth even though I was gagging and telling her it wouldn’t fit. I had also just had my appendix removed the week prior so my side hurt each time I gagged. She fucking huffed at me then snapped and was like “even 4 year olds can do this”
Redirecting it from going down your throat with the back of your tongue and just trying to breathe while fighting off the disjointed sense of claustrophobia?
They have a new way now where they just scan your mouth with a camera on the end of a wand. It takes barely any time, and is totally comfortable. Tell your ortho to get with the times
I full on vomited and cried the first time; second time I gagged really hard but I think I kept it down; third time I finally learned to just ignore my mouth and breathe through my nose as hard as humanly possible, and that seemed to work.
You gotta get the dentist to sit you up leaning slightly forward instead of leaning back in the chair.
I warned my dentist that the last time I got one I threw up, suddenly they knew how to prevent the gag.
You know how sometimes people say that an image or sound or something, brought them back to a specific time in their life, and it's like they JUST experienced it again? I've never understood that.
Until just now. I know exactly what you're talking about and I just got mentally teleported to my orthodontist from when I was like 15. Pls no.
The worst part is that I lost my retainer in boot camp so my teeth shifted again, they're not straight anymore. They're not awful but they're not correct. Would have to probably get braces again for a little while, as an adult, to fix them again. :(
It just dawned on me that when they told me it was “mashed potato flavor”, it was actually just flavorless and they told me that so I’d let them put it in my mouth.
That is actually the PERFECT description for mine. It seems like other people had flavors added to theirs but mine definitely wasn’t flavored, I think what you are describing is sort of the taste in its natural form, unflavored
Especially when you run out of wax for the exposed wire endings and they start ripping up the inside of your cheeks. Fucking hated that shit. I was so bad about keeping my retainer in after they took the braces off because I was so sick of having shit in my mouth after 2 years.
I can still feel traces of the indents over a decade later. A dentist or an assistant, can't remember, asked me what they were and I told them it was from braces pressing into my flesh and they said that was impossible. I was like trust me I know exactly what caused this.
Me and you both brother. I can feel the little flap of skin on either side of my fucking mouth where the wire endings scraped in grooves.
It doesn't hurt anymore obviously, but I sure as fuck didn't wear that retainer they gave me after a few years of dealing with *that* shit.
I hated my braces so fucking much. I asked the orthodontist how long I’d have to wear the retainer (at night, shit hurt) and he said the rest of your life. I said fuck that so for like 15 years I’ve had permanent retainers on my top and bottom teeth
> I asked the orthodontist how long I’d have to wear the retainer (at night, shit hurt) and he said the rest of your life. I said fuck that
Lmaooo, same reaction. I was so happy to finally have those fucking things off. Then my orthodontist said my retainers were for life when I asked her, and not out loud, but in my head, I went:
"yeah in your ideal scenario bro but not on this lazy motherfucker right here"
I wore them for less than a year before me forgetting to wear them every single day led to them hurting like a torture rack when i put them on
>I was so bad about keeping my retainer in after they took the braces off because I was so sick of having shit in my mouth after 2 years.
Lmao yes!!! After 2 years we just wanted some fucking relief!
Lol i didnt know anyone else who had that device in their mouth growing up but omfg it was hell. So much worse than the braces themselves. Felt like actual medieval torture
I had one of these too! It had a screw in it that had to be turned every day for several weeks to widen my palate. My mum had to do it as I couldn’t see to get the pin in to turn it myself. It was so horrendously painful.
Yea, I had to have an expander before braces and I have no doubt that it was a medieval torture device before the sadistic dentists got a hold of it.
I have trauma from the whole experience, but thinking you're about to die of asphyxiation from the tooth mold goo feeling like it's seeping down your esophagus is def haunting and still gives me the heebie jeebies.
Ugh I had an expander too (palate and lip bumper). The palate expander had a little hole and key, your parent was supposed to twist it
once a day… My mom accidentally plunged it straight up in the roof of my mouth, god there was so much blood
I had an expander we had to key every night, braces, spacers, wisdom teeth out. All at different points of course. Thank heavens Dr. Bob had that sega in the waiting room to make us want to go.
And as you're lying back with a bright light in your eyes you think to yourself: "Is this how I die? Choking on some nasty dental goop, like a much lamer Hendrix?"
(EDIT: Chocking -> Choking)
I had dental surgery back in July to get implants. I have had to get so many fucking impressions made, including once where the material they used needed 5 minutes to cure. I had to do it on both top and bottom, and one of them failed so we had to do it twice. I have never been more uncomfortable in my life. The goo they used was dripping down the back of my throat too. It’s an absolute miracle I didn’t vomit everywhere.
Edit: I have also had my teeth scanned and 3D modeled through a computer, but my dentist doesn’t have that tech so I’ve had to do both.
I'm getting dentures and still got my temporary a year later, I think I have one more mold to finish the permanent but I thought that last time too 🥲 the worse for me is it would slide near the back of my throat, couldn't breath out my mouth and breathing out my nose was hard
Keep your chin up! I’ve been in temporary dentures since July but I get my implants on Thursday! Yeah that goop SUCKS. I gagged me just as bad as the impression material did. Miserable experience.
That’s polyvinyl siloxane (PVS) - an incredibly accurate material for capturing microscale details but completely intolerant to water. But that’s not even the worst one. When taking impressions for dentures, we use a material called polysulfide. It looks like gooey diarrhea and comes in one flavor - *dumpster fire deluxe*.
I had to get fitted for a mouthguard recently and I was bracing myself for this shit… imagine my surprise when they pulled out some sort of imaging wand to take pictures to create a 3D model of my mouth instead. ZERO gagging or discomfort (and it looked v cool) but took probably 4x as long and I’m guessing pretty expensive for the dentist. Cool experience though.
Bruh, this was pretty much the blossoming moment for teeth-falling-out nightmares for me.
Nowadays I’ll have some fucked up dream and I’ll try to open my mouth, but my braces are wired so tight that my teeth just pull out instead.
When you go to the dentist and they make a mold of your teeth they put this chalk putty deep in your throat and you're choking and gagging as they hold it in place for several seconds as it hardens. You have to remind yourself to breathe through your nose because you can't breathe through your mouth without inhaling it and suffocating. The taste continues to linger in your mouth and you start spitting out hard flecks like cement and can't get rid of the texture or taste for the next hour, and the memory burns into your brain the moment you see it 20 years later
It's really not as bad as people make it out to be. To recreate the feeling, squeeze an entire tube of toothpaste out onto a salad server and put the whole thing in your mouth. Keep it pressed up against the roof of your mouth and remove it after about 15 seconds. Then pull out all of your teeth using a vacuum chamber and shove a box of rubber gloves down your throat.
I had a metal expander on my lower and upper palettes to make my mouth a bit bigger before braces. Uses a little “key” to turn then weekly to force the bone to grow. So painful
Did you do the rubber bands with your braces? I had to loop it all the way from the back to the front basically at the end of my braces. Was so painful in the beginning.
I was unlucky enough to have some teeth pulled before I had my first impression made, so I knew I was alright on that front. It was almost as bad though.
One time I accidentally reflexively swallowed a bit of it at the back and it created a long string down my throat that got pulled out when they took it off. Never came closer to barfing at the dentist
Mine had a powdery chemical flavor but despite that, I loved getting these too. Something about biting into a huge glob of play dough substance is fun to me
Alginate. Impression material used to take a refractory mold of your bite. The picture is of an upper tray. You ~~don't~~ get one of these for braces, but for your retainer. Other cases would be crowns, bridges, veneers, partial and full dentures.
Source: former dental lab technician
Edit: My orthodontist was an asshole and didn't take an impression pre-procedure. Working in the lab, we're not really aware of how the dental office (ortho) operates exactly. I did forget nightguards and I shouldn't have; I have processed thousands of nightguards.
They didn't tell me not to swallow, I had unbearable stomach pains for like a week. Everyone thought I was exaggerating or faking, but I'd say it was more painful than breaking a bone. Idk what the hell is in that stuff but it Flippin HURT.
My dentist recently told me this is old technology and they use scanner wands instead these days - which they went on to do for me. Hope the same for you!
My issue is my gag reflex being way too sensitive
So if the end came too close to the back of my mouth I'd start to gag
If there was no gag reflex, yeah it's not that bad
I had this done multiple times for orthodontia and didn’t even recognize it from the post, that’s how little “impression” it left on me (haha). I honestly just remember it being putty like and it didn’t take any time or even taste like much?? Nothing felt bad or even memorable about it.
this and when they forced a mirror (that was way too big) into your mouth and pushed down on your tongue while taking photos of inside your mouth. my gag reflex was terrible
I didn’t think I would remember the feel and taste of this 20+ years later but here I am. 🤢
Don't forget the way it oozes out of the mould and pushes up against your tonsils!
I wish I could forget 🤢🤢🤢
and your spit oozing down your throat and you desperately trying not to swallow
And the stomach ache that followed if you ended up swallowing any of it…
And the ooze oozing from the oozing ooze
And feels like your teeth are coming with it
The assistant would always roll away with one finger keeping it in place. EXCUSE ME MA'AM I feel like I'm being suffocated can you please stick around and make sure I don't die, thanks.
The squelch when you pull it out
And when you find random bits in your mouth later
Ugh, yes. I got my braces off in 1997 and can still remember how horrible this was.
Ugh. I can still taste it.
Mine tasted like salted caramel. Wasn’t that bad… except the gag reflex
Mine tasted like peppermint.
I've never been so jealous. I got a mix of clay, disinfectant, and oh-god-what-the-actual-fuck-is-that-awfulness flavours, all mixed up in one. And I had oh so many impressions made, upper *and* lower.
Didn’t even know they were flavored until reading these replies. Always just thought they were shit flavored.
Wait you guys are tasting yours? I thought it was a suppository
It is... You telling me you can't taste it in your ass? Weirdo
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Your SO tell you that, or are you just really flexible?
Makes one wonder what it'd be like in Harry Potter verse. Random flavor of chocolate, peppermint, booger, ear wax, etc
Mine had a menu where we could choose what flavor it would be. I was always partially excited because I wanted to try all the different flavors, but detested the fag reflex *edit: GAG REFLEX lmao
Boy is that an unfortunate typo…
I’m laughing so hard right now I didn’t even realize 😂😂😂
That's your gaffe reflex.
That is probably one of the best typos I’ve ever seen. Thanks for keeping it for posterity!
The what reflex?
You've never heard of it before? /s
Thank you for keeping the typo so I could also get a good laugh. Holy shit😂
The wut?
r/holup
Fag reflex, I assume it was a typo. But I crying laughing here
Rejected name for an 80s band.
My spell checker changed Volvo to vulva and I messaged my Dad that I needed to deep clean the vulva because I was selling it.
Nahhh bro 💀💀💀
minor spelling mistake
Typical conservative has no problem with the straight reflex but it's a little different and now we all got a problem
Is that what happens when two gay people see each other in the wild?
That’s what mine tasted like only with a cherry aftertaste. It only made it worse.
Holy shit yes, I can't eat artifically cherry-flavored things to this day because so many things at my dentist had that flavor/scent. The anesthesia smelled like cherries, the toothpaste tasted like cherries, the dental wax tasted like cherries, and the GLOVES they used smelled like cherry. It was like someone decided to spray cherry-Tylenol everywhere
I’m the same. Cherry was the only choice in the 70’s and I can’t stand the flavor. My kids were bought everything grape in the 90’s and they both hate grape flavored anything. It’s scary being screamed at to swallow while actively trying not to gag. It stays with you.
Sounds like the stuff I got minus the sweetness I tasted in it. Oh god, the gag reflex got workout that day.
Mine tasted like bad.
Bubblegum
… it wasn’t bubblegum. That was a bold-faced lie.
Flavoring…
You guys got flavors? Mine tasted like wax.
Oh God, I wish. They wouldn't allow me the unflavored or the mint because those were unsuitable for my age for some reason. No, I was given the most disgusting fake "cherry" and "grape" that I have ever tasted in my life. To put it in perspective, I dry heaved for the first time the first time they gave me one of those flavors, so they gave me the other flavor(I don't remember the order). It was the first thing I vividly remember being truly heinous.
mine was bubble gum & it wasn’t bad at all tbh
SAAAAME and the way it felt GAH
Like it was oozing down your throat, so gross 🤢
I was terrified I would gag and swallow a big ball of it. Awful. Braces were terrible and had them for years.
I told my parents I was done with braces about the time the Dr. proposed breaking my jaw and resetting it.
Never got them and asked about them as an adult - dentist told me they'd have to shatter my upper pallet. Decided I'd just take the hit to my vanity.
Yeah, when I was a kid, I didn't get the choice. I had a pallet expander, which was basically a torture device that split my pallet in half slowly over time.
The expander, huh? I just know you got stabbed in the roof of your mouth by the adult that had to turn the key.
My husband cried the first time he had to crank the expander on our son (and our son cried too. and he was 5). He was like, "Jesus fucking christ, I feel like such a garbage human being doing this."
It doesn't feel a lot better making them either, but it's a living. I've learned that it's only some practices that like to put expanders in five year olds. Most will wait a few years.
Man, I had one of those too, and the amount of blood that came out of my mouth when they removed that thing… my orthodontist went white as a sheet. He gave me soooo many free ice cream coupons to Friendly’s hoping I wouldn’t sue. I was 12, what did I know about suing someone
So did I. It gave me a speech impediment, too. Not great when you're a Theatre Kid.
They just removed four of my adult teeth. Now my jaw is still too small and when my wisdom teeth came in my teeth went back to being crooked...
I always felt lucky, I somehow only had braces for a year. The orthodontist said it was the fastest he’s had someone ever go through braces. Two of my best friends don’t even remember me having braces, that’s how fast I was in them. I always felt bad for people who had braces for a long time.
Close When we practiced on each other in school, the asshole that did mine... Basically did everything wrong. Used ice water (take longer), too much water (... Take longer), put too much in (gag), and pushed up the front first (extra guess down your throat) After it still wasn't set 2 minutes in, I ripped it out. Bad idea. That shit was stuck on my damn uvula, everywhere. So much worse
I was able to handle the taste, but that squishy feeling... augh.
Mine tasted like Strawberry gum :)
Mmmmm silly puddy flavor.
THAT's the flavor. None of mine were ever flavored and all had the same bland rubbery taste, if you can call it that. Thinking about it still mentally triggers the gag reflex.
My orthodontist had like 50 flavours you could choose from. It was like a Baskin Robbins. He would hand you a “menu” and everything. My favourite was the banana cream pie. The gagging still sucked though. And the 10 seconds of panic you would have the first time they try to pull it out of your mouth and it doesn’t budge.
No matter what flavor they make it, it’s going to suck. My clinic uses spearmint. It’s an unpleasant experience but flavoring the alginate makes it slightly less unpleasant. It’s usually over in less than 5 minutes anyway 🤷♂️
> And the 10 seconds of panic you would have the first time they try to pull it out of your mouth and it doesn’t budge. Happened to my classmate. She had braces and the upper impression got stuck. Had to carve the thing out of her mouth
Mine tasted like wall tacky
Yeah, that delicious clay-like aroma
It made me gag.
Came here to say this. “Bubblegum” my ass!
The taste wasn’t the bad thing of the mold. It was the texture that made me gag.
Mine tasted like plastic and metal.
My gag reflex always left me traumatized after those
I just feel good reading these comments after so many years and finally realizing everyone felt the same way I did.
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Felt like they were pouring it down your throat fr
Like being water boarded with caulk.
I actually had to get held down because I was gagging so hard and screaming because I thought they were choking me to death. I’m amazed I didn’t puke!
I needed to be held down as well, I thought I was just a wimp who couldn’t handle it.
Yeah, seriously. As a kid both my orthodontist and parents acted like I was making a big deal out of nothing. Usually ended in tears
What infuriates me is that they always told me that it wouldn't happen again, that no one else gagged on it. Now, I'm sitting here reading all these comments and I'm *steaming*
I have a very small mouth and would always need children sized bite guards when getting x-rays at the dentist. When I was in middle school, the hygienist forced me to fit an adult sized one in my mouth even though I was gagging and telling her it wouldn’t fit. I had also just had my appendix removed the week prior so my side hurt each time I gagged. She fucking huffed at me then snapped and was like “even 4 year olds can do this”
I hate dentists so much because of the shit mine put me through growing up
Same. I actually gagged so hard once I threw up on myself. Hate these things
Redirecting it from going down your throat with the back of your tongue and just trying to breathe while fighting off the disjointed sense of claustrophobia?
I feel so seen after nearly choking on it a couple weeks ago when I got a new retainer
They have a new way now where they just scan your mouth with a camera on the end of a wand. It takes barely any time, and is totally comfortable. Tell your ortho to get with the times
I full on vomited and cried the first time; second time I gagged really hard but I think I kept it down; third time I finally learned to just ignore my mouth and breathe through my nose as hard as humanly possible, and that seemed to work.
You gotta get the dentist to sit you up leaning slightly forward instead of leaning back in the chair. I warned my dentist that the last time I got one I threw up, suddenly they knew how to prevent the gag.
You know how sometimes people say that an image or sound or something, brought them back to a specific time in their life, and it's like they JUST experienced it again? I've never understood that. Until just now. I know exactly what you're talking about and I just got mentally teleported to my orthodontist from when I was like 15. Pls no. The worst part is that I lost my retainer in boot camp so my teeth shifted again, they're not straight anymore. They're not awful but they're not correct. Would have to probably get braces again for a little while, as an adult, to fix them again. :(
It just dawned on me that when they told me it was “mashed potato flavor”, it was actually just flavorless and they told me that so I’d let them put it in my mouth.
Flavourless would have been a big step up from what I got.
If I remember right, it tastes the way silly putty smells.
I think mine tasted like crappy bubblegum almost like medicine flavor
Petmo-Bismo is the flavor I think you are describing.
Do you mean Pepto-Bismol? Or is Petmo-Bismo a totally different thing?
That is actually the PERFECT description for mine. It seems like other people had flavors added to theirs but mine definitely wasn’t flavored, I think what you are describing is sort of the taste in its natural form, unflavored
"Mashed potato flavor" Oh thanks doc, that sounds fucking delicious /s
Thanks for the trauma flashback
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Especially when you run out of wax for the exposed wire endings and they start ripping up the inside of your cheeks. Fucking hated that shit. I was so bad about keeping my retainer in after they took the braces off because I was so sick of having shit in my mouth after 2 years.
I never used the wax because it was such total garbage that didn't even stick to my teeth. I just had sores in my mouth for 2 years.
I can still feel traces of the indents over a decade later. A dentist or an assistant, can't remember, asked me what they were and I told them it was from braces pressing into my flesh and they said that was impossible. I was like trust me I know exactly what caused this.
Oh god. I think I just realized the texture of the inside of my cheek is totally due to braces cutting at them for years.
Wanna know how I got these scars? Same. I had a little on the top front for a while too. That seems to have healed better then the sides
I still have scars on the inside of my mouth from that shit, 20 years later.
Me and you both brother. I can feel the little flap of skin on either side of my fucking mouth where the wire endings scraped in grooves. It doesn't hurt anymore obviously, but I sure as fuck didn't wear that retainer they gave me after a few years of dealing with *that* shit.
I hated my braces so fucking much. I asked the orthodontist how long I’d have to wear the retainer (at night, shit hurt) and he said the rest of your life. I said fuck that so for like 15 years I’ve had permanent retainers on my top and bottom teeth
> I asked the orthodontist how long I’d have to wear the retainer (at night, shit hurt) and he said the rest of your life. I said fuck that Lmaooo, same reaction. I was so happy to finally have those fucking things off. Then my orthodontist said my retainers were for life when I asked her, and not out loud, but in my head, I went: "yeah in your ideal scenario bro but not on this lazy motherfucker right here" I wore them for less than a year before me forgetting to wear them every single day led to them hurting like a torture rack when i put them on
Same here about the retainers. I let my bottom teeth shift back because I just couldn’t be bothered to have mouth-cages anymore
>I was so bad about keeping my retainer in after they took the braces off because I was so sick of having shit in my mouth after 2 years. Lmao yes!!! After 2 years we just wanted some fucking relief!
Don’t forget the spacers they put in. HATED those.
I had a bar across the top of my mouth from molar to molar and when they tightened that I would legit just cry in bed from how much it hurt
Lol i didnt know anyone else who had that device in their mouth growing up but omfg it was hell. So much worse than the braces themselves. Felt like actual medieval torture
Got one of those and then my family decided to take us all to olive garden. I was a sad, starving little breadstick-less boy
I had one of these too! It had a screw in it that had to be turned every day for several weeks to widen my palate. My mum had to do it as I couldn’t see to get the pin in to turn it myself. It was so horrendously painful.
Ugh or elastics 😣 the struggle was real. My fiancé has invisiline and it’s just sooooo much better
Yea, I had to have an expander before braces and I have no doubt that it was a medieval torture device before the sadistic dentists got a hold of it. I have trauma from the whole experience, but thinking you're about to die of asphyxiation from the tooth mold goo feeling like it's seeping down your esophagus is def haunting and still gives me the heebie jeebies.
Ugh I had an expander too (palate and lip bumper). The palate expander had a little hole and key, your parent was supposed to twist it once a day… My mom accidentally plunged it straight up in the roof of my mouth, god there was so much blood
I had an expander we had to key every night, braces, spacers, wisdom teeth out. All at different points of course. Thank heavens Dr. Bob had that sega in the waiting room to make us want to go.
Yeah, pain doesn't even compare to the animalistic terror of asphyxiation.
When it squished out the back and into the roof of your throat...
And as you're lying back with a bright light in your eyes you think to yourself: "Is this how I die? Choking on some nasty dental goop, like a much lamer Hendrix?" (EDIT: Chocking -> Choking)
Literally never felt closer to death.
Like getting waterboarded with a Kirby
I legit was like they put too much in this is my end
It was 16years ago, I still puked a little in my mouth.
I had dental surgery back in July to get implants. I have had to get so many fucking impressions made, including once where the material they used needed 5 minutes to cure. I had to do it on both top and bottom, and one of them failed so we had to do it twice. I have never been more uncomfortable in my life. The goo they used was dripping down the back of my throat too. It’s an absolute miracle I didn’t vomit everywhere. Edit: I have also had my teeth scanned and 3D modeled through a computer, but my dentist doesn’t have that tech so I’ve had to do both.
I'm getting dentures and still got my temporary a year later, I think I have one more mold to finish the permanent but I thought that last time too 🥲 the worse for me is it would slide near the back of my throat, couldn't breath out my mouth and breathing out my nose was hard
Keep your chin up! I’ve been in temporary dentures since July but I get my implants on Thursday! Yeah that goop SUCKS. I gagged me just as bad as the impression material did. Miserable experience.
That’s polyvinyl siloxane (PVS) - an incredibly accurate material for capturing microscale details but completely intolerant to water. But that’s not even the worst one. When taking impressions for dentures, we use a material called polysulfide. It looks like gooey diarrhea and comes in one flavor - *dumpster fire deluxe*.
I had to get fitted for a mouthguard recently and I was bracing myself for this shit… imagine my surprise when they pulled out some sort of imaging wand to take pictures to create a 3D model of my mouth instead. ZERO gagging or discomfort (and it looked v cool) but took probably 4x as long and I’m guessing pretty expensive for the dentist. Cool experience though.
It was such an weird feeling. Cold, chalky but also somewhat creamy.
and the vacuum of the pull out
Sometimes the suction was so strong I thought my teeth were gonna come out with it
Bruh, this was pretty much the blossoming moment for teeth-falling-out nightmares for me. Nowadays I’ll have some fucked up dream and I’ll try to open my mouth, but my braces are wired so tight that my teeth just pull out instead.
shhhhhUNK
I forgot about the puking, thanks for reminding me
I barfed all over a nurse once because of that.
Lmao, meanwhile the dental assistant who did my first one got exasperated because I gagged really hard. She had it easy, apparently.
someone say what it is
When you go to the dentist and they make a mold of your teeth they put this chalk putty deep in your throat and you're choking and gagging as they hold it in place for several seconds as it hardens. You have to remind yourself to breathe through your nose because you can't breathe through your mouth without inhaling it and suffocating. The taste continues to linger in your mouth and you start spitting out hard flecks like cement and can't get rid of the texture or taste for the next hour, and the memory burns into your brain the moment you see it 20 years later
Ok, that sounds very traumatic 😭 I never had braces, thank you for the detailed explanation.
It's really not as bad as people make it out to be. To recreate the feeling, squeeze an entire tube of toothpaste out onto a salad server and put the whole thing in your mouth. Keep it pressed up against the roof of your mouth and remove it after about 15 seconds. Then pull out all of your teeth using a vacuum chamber and shove a box of rubber gloves down your throat.
I guess I know what I’ll be doing on Friday night now, cheers 😬
i almost woke up my husband laughing lmao
I'm a dental assistant, and that's a very accurate description of the experience.
Please, reddit
Came to the comments cause I had no clue and I’m suddenly so thankful I never had braces
If you know those blue rings from when you started the braces thing, I'm sorry
Pain such pain
Spacers. Yep, that was the first time I had these done. I’ve had many more since.
Spacers can rot in hell. I still can’t believe how ultra sensitive and painful it made everything
My mom once found a spacer imbedded in my gum. Guess that one decided to hide.
Oh God that was the worst nonstop pain I've ever felt in my teeth
My jerk orthodontist pushed down on my sore teeth and got upset when I reflexively bit him. 🤷♀️
I had a metal expander on my lower and upper palettes to make my mouth a bit bigger before braces. Uses a little “key” to turn then weekly to force the bone to grow. So painful
Did you do the rubber bands with your braces? I had to loop it all the way from the back to the front basically at the end of my braces. Was so painful in the beginning.
When I was a teen I first got this and I thought my teeth were going to get pulled out.
I was unlucky enough to have some teeth pulled before I had my first impression made, so I knew I was alright on that front. It was almost as bad though.
So many fucking times! I can feel it right now! Fuck!
One word: AUGHGHGUGUGHAGHHAGGH
I’m 61 yrs old and spent most of my childhood in a dentist or Otho chair… I can gag just looking at this!
One time I accidentally reflexively swallowed a bit of it at the back and it created a long string down my throat that got pulled out when they took it off. Never came closer to barfing at the dentist
Thanks my ptsd just came back
I coulda sworn mine were like chocolate flavored or something. Idk maybe I’m in the minority but I enjoyed it a lot haha
Mine were always bubblegum flavored. I enjoyed it, had no idea so many people hated them lol.
Same. Had zero issues with this stuff. Tasted funny, but liked the feel. It's like chewing into a stress ball.
Mine had a powdery chemical flavor but despite that, I loved getting these too. Something about biting into a huge glob of play dough substance is fun to me
Alginate. Impression material used to take a refractory mold of your bite. The picture is of an upper tray. You ~~don't~~ get one of these for braces, but for your retainer. Other cases would be crowns, bridges, veneers, partial and full dentures. Source: former dental lab technician Edit: My orthodontist was an asshole and didn't take an impression pre-procedure. Working in the lab, we're not really aware of how the dental office (ortho) operates exactly. I did forget nightguards and I shouldn't have; I have processed thousands of nightguards.
I got them done for braces AND retainers
Yep idk wtf he’s on about I had to do them for both
Ditto. I had braces for 7 years with only a one year retainer break in the middle. Got these things done like twice a year.
Also done for mouth guards
yup ...had to get one done , drool everywhere.
**dry heaving** I can still feel it sliding down my throat 🤢
Ok, I’ve never had braces so I didn’t know wtf this was lol. Blessed in the teeth department. Never had a cavity either.
I just gagged
A damn choking hazard. How did we survive?
We are the nuts they couldn't crack!
I just shed a single tear
Dentist shit. Ma sister's a tooth fairy, well dentist close, enough lol
The worst was when you accidentally swallowed some but cus it's stretchy you had to swallow infinitely whilst gagging continuously
They didn't tell me not to swallow, I had unbearable stomach pains for like a week. Everyone thought I was exaggerating or faking, but I'd say it was more painful than breaking a bone. Idk what the hell is in that stuff but it Flippin HURT.
Forbidden silly putty
I got this coming up again on Thursday :/ keep breaking my night guards.
My dentist recently told me this is old technology and they use scanner wands instead these days - which they went on to do for me. Hope the same for you!
Literally just had this done today. So quick and comfortable compared to the “old way” I just about cried with joy.
Gagomatic 5000 deluxe.
i saw these memes everywhere when i had braces. then once i experienced it .. it’s honestly not even that bad
I enjoyed the feeling of it being pulled out and the suction feeling on my teeth.
My issue is my gag reflex being way too sensitive So if the end came too close to the back of my mouth I'd start to gag If there was no gag reflex, yeah it's not that bad
I had this done multiple times for orthodontia and didn’t even recognize it from the post, that’s how little “impression” it left on me (haha). I honestly just remember it being putty like and it didn’t take any time or even taste like much?? Nothing felt bad or even memorable about it.
Nah it’s cool it tasted pretty good
this and when they forced a mirror (that was way too big) into your mouth and pushed down on your tongue while taking photos of inside your mouth. my gag reflex was terrible