I managed to get normal braces (temporary and fixed) but had to have my jaw broken and moved forward a centimetre, so I have metal pins in my jaw and slightly weird sensation on the right side of my chin and lip. Metal in the face for the win!
i had one of those palatal arch thingys too! i feel for you, from when i was in third grade until i graduated high school i had some form of metal in my stupid mouth. lame.
Try Jaw surgery … break lower jaw break top and move around to right place.. braces … retainer…. lots of titanium strews… that way you can feel when when you touch my face .. now thats fun.
That’s very impressive. But you’re hearing from someone who never even had to have his wisdom teeth pulled. I feel like I live in an ivory tower of loneliness, like some kind of poseur.
But you’re mouth is amazing. It’s like a Tim Burton wet dream. Cool.
I started to wake up while my wisdom teeth were being removed, too. All I remember is incredibly blurry people standing over me and a terrible pain in my mouth. I started groaning and they knocked me out again.
Were you just born without incisors? Or did they get knocked out at some point?
I was just born wihtout them. My brother is missing them two. Natural selection must have skipped over us. And it wasn’t the wisdom teeth part I woke up on, I slept through that but the meds wore off while they were drilling holes into my gums to put the screws in there. Pretty much the same though, just blurry images, panic and then blackness.
I have metal in my face, too. Screws and wires from a jaw surgery. Also had to wear headgear, expanding retainers of all kinds, braces twice, rubberbands on braces, teeth removal, overbite corrections, etc. Fun shit, ain’t it? I think my mouth is worth like $20,000 now. Damn. I think I’m glad for orthodontia, and then again, I think it’s totally fucked up.
Anyway, the whole point of this comment post was to tell you about a rad new review of your book: http://guttergeek.com/
So…do you have no top teeth? ouch! One of my friends braces got wierd in the winter so they tightened in their mouth they lost four teeth but got ALOT of money in compensation….they have two gold teeth now. Is it wrong that i constantly ask to see them?? ALL I WANT IS GOLD TEETH FOR MY BRITHDAY!!
I have good teeth for the most part, but lately my wisdom teeth have been rotting out because I should have had them removed and never did.
I had one removed, and I asked them to put me to sleep for it (yeah I’m a pussy). I was sitting in the chair w/the other nurses/wtfevers in the room… the dentist, whom I’d never met came in, grabbed a syringe, shoved it in my mouth around the tooth about 4 times.
Then he left the room for about 5 minutes.
Then he came back in, took some bar looking object and started yanking around in my mouth. I heard cracking and breaking and a huge loss of pressure around my tooth. Then he stuck some pliers in and yanked it out… then he left the room.
He never talked to me pre-, during, or post op.
Here’s a pic of the tooth. I’m warning you though… its fucking DISGUSTING!!!! So if you don’t want to throw up in your mouth a bit,
uh, yeah, hate to burst your bubble dude, but that’s called “an every day tooth extraction” meaning, that’s how it always goes. I should know, I’ve had 9 teeth pulled. I just didn’t include it in the comic. What did you expect? that he was gonna hold you and sweet talk your tooth out?
that picture, good sir, is also what we call a “typical cavity” and the only thing disgusting about it is the fact that you let it get that bad before having it removed. Your breath must have smelled like a dumpster.
Hey, I’m missing the same teeth as you!..that’s weird, I thought i was the only one!
I only had the headgear, braces and plate though..should get the implants in the next few years. Good to know others exist…and look normal…
Oh, and love your comics, BTW, makes me want to move to America!
You think waking up in surgery is badass? Hellz no!! I was awake the whole time they were taking my teeth out. Super-freaky is the adjective that comes to mind.
Hot damn it is like child torture.
I have never heard of that button and chain business it truly frightens me to my core. Could you feel the hole in your gums??? UUUNNNNhappy.
My buddy Hess woke up while having his wisdom teeth out. Yeah, he’s a big guy (bout 6′3″ and 250? lbs I would guess). Yeah. He broke the chair. Possibly the dentist as well…
i totally had the chain on my canine but it was on the right side. once my tooth came down my orthodontist let me keep the chain. i don’t know why but i still have it. i hated that thing.
This is amazing!! I, too, am a victim of terrible teeth genetics, and this comic is pretty much IDENTICAL to all the stupid crap they put in my mouth!
Palatal arches are the fucking worst. The elastics are total bitches as well! One of my teeth grew in as a tiny little thin dagger, and they had to build it up with a venire to make it look like a normal human tooth rather than a retarded vampire tooth. Ugh.
Yeah, I sucked my thumb way too long too (7th grade -.-’). Thankfully my front teeth didn’t get too messed up. But had to have braces because oddly enough the rest of my mouth was crap.
I’ve had similar dental history. I had an open-under bite. So…
I had head gear to move my top jaw forward and bottom jaw back. That worked for a bit ’til they grew and went back to where they were. Then I had that palatal metal shit in my mouth where my mom had to expand it twice a day with a key (like you). Then I had braces for a year and a half (only my top teeth). I got the metal wire on the back of my teeth and had to wear the retainer every night. Then I had to get braces again (still have them). Got all 4 wisdom teeth out last January (’10). Then 8 weeks ago, I got surgery where he sawed my top jaw horizontally, moved it forward, screwed hooks in to attach them, sliced part of my bottom jaw on both sides near the back to shorten my jaw then screw them back together. In my x-rays, I have 3 screws on each side of my bottom jaw and 2 hooks on my top jaw. I also have little scars on my jaw on both sides of my face. Currently, I’m still wearing the braces (now with elastics) for another 6 months.
Oh, and I had to get braces the first time because when I was younger, I sucked on a pacifier too much so my two front teeth were crooked and overlapping.
I definitely know how you feel. When I was younger my mouth was too small so I had to have a bunch of teeth pulled. I also had an underbite and had to wear an irritating retainer that showed under my teeth. Got lots of questions about that… Also had headgear and braces and all that crap, but I’m finally done. I also know another girl whose missing the same teeth you were. Teeth do crazy things.
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February 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
SEXY!
February 1st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
You should send this to Raina Telgemeier as a Smile Guest strip. She’s been running comics depicting other artist’s dental experiences lately.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
i had one of those palatal arch extenders too. it sucked big time.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Holy shit. That’s so much brutality you could create an entire death metal album about your mouth.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I managed to get normal braces (temporary and fixed) but had to have my jaw broken and moved forward a centimetre, so I have metal pins in my jaw and slightly weird sensation on the right side of my chin and lip. Metal in the face for the win!
February 1st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
that last panel looks like inverted dracula incisors.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Holy crap! Do you ever notice the screws? Can you unscrew them?
February 1st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
no and no. thank god.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I tried to get up during my wisdom tooth extraction, too. I don’t remember it, but the nurse said she had to tackle me.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I hate insurance companies so much, so I never thought I’d say this, but I pity your fathers dental plan insurance company!
February 1st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
be damned those rubber bands… i had the fox size. i dont know why they felt compelled to name the different sizes after animals.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I remember having to have a key turn a device in my mouth. I don’t recall it hurting.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Sounds like teeth don’t like you.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Heh, those screws look like inverted vampire fangs. :F
February 1st, 2008 at 7:50 pm
do you set off metal detectors?
February 1st, 2008 at 9:10 pm
oooh, ouch, yikes!
February 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
i had one of those palatal arch thingys too! i feel for you, from when i was in third grade until i graduated high school i had some form of metal in my stupid mouth. lame.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I gleeked on my orthodintist, that fuck.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:35 pm
why the hell would you do that? I thank god for my orthodontist, otherwise I’d be a snaggley tooth monster.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Try Jaw surgery … break lower jaw break top and move around to right place.. braces … retainer…. lots of titanium strews… that way you can feel when when you touch my face .. now thats fun.
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 am
That’s very impressive. But you’re hearing from someone who never even had to have his wisdom teeth pulled. I feel like I live in an ivory tower of loneliness, like some kind of poseur.
But you’re mouth is amazing. It’s like a Tim Burton wet dream. Cool.
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:02 am
Your*… ironically I accidentally post my pet peeve of a substitution for you’re. What are the odds?
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 am
I started to wake up while my wisdom teeth were being removed, too. All I remember is incredibly blurry people standing over me and a terrible pain in my mouth. I started groaning and they knocked me out again.
Were you just born without incisors? Or did they get knocked out at some point?
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 am
I was just born wihtout them. My brother is missing them two. Natural selection must have skipped over us. And it wasn’t the wisdom teeth part I woke up on, I slept through that but the meds wore off while they were drilling holes into my gums to put the screws in there. Pretty much the same though, just blurry images, panic and then blackness.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I had that terrible tooth-drag-chain on my left canine too. The orthodontist would remove several lengths at a time to crank it into place. blech.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I have metal in my face, too. Screws and wires from a jaw surgery. Also had to wear headgear, expanding retainers of all kinds, braces twice, rubberbands on braces, teeth removal, overbite corrections, etc. Fun shit, ain’t it? I think my mouth is worth like $20,000 now. Damn. I think I’m glad for orthodontia, and then again, I think it’s totally fucked up.
Anyway, the whole point of this comment post was to tell you about a rad new review of your book:
http://guttergeek.com/
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
So…do you have no top teeth? ouch! One of my friends braces got wierd in the winter so they tightened in their mouth they lost four teeth but got ALOT of money in compensation….they have two gold teeth now. Is it wrong that i constantly ask to see them?? ALL I WANT IS GOLD TEETH FOR MY BRITHDAY!!
February 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
In the final panel, I hear your mom saying “Oh My” in a Shirley Temple voice..
February 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Er, 2nd to last panel I mean.
February 5th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Sounds like Dr. Dumars
February 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I have good teeth for the most part, but lately my wisdom teeth have been rotting out because I should have had them removed and never did.
I had one removed, and I asked them to put me to sleep for it (yeah I’m a pussy). I was sitting in the chair w/the other nurses/wtfevers in the room… the dentist, whom I’d never met came in, grabbed a syringe, shoved it in my mouth around the tooth about 4 times.
Then he left the room for about 5 minutes.
Then he came back in, took some bar looking object and started yanking around in my mouth. I heard cracking and breaking and a huge loss of pressure around my tooth. Then he stuck some pliers in and yanked it out… then he left the room.
He never talked to me pre-, during, or post op.
Here’s a pic of the tooth. I’m warning you though… its fucking DISGUSTING!!!! So if you don’t want to throw up in your mouth a bit,
*** DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK: ***
http://phroztnet.org/screen/tooth.jpg
February 7th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
uh, yeah, hate to burst your bubble dude, but that’s called “an every day tooth extraction” meaning, that’s how it always goes. I should know, I’ve had 9 teeth pulled. I just didn’t include it in the comic. What did you expect? that he was gonna hold you and sweet talk your tooth out?
that picture, good sir, is also what we call a “typical cavity” and the only thing disgusting about it is the fact that you let it get that bad before having it removed. Your breath must have smelled like a dumpster.
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 am
Hey, I’m missing the same teeth as you!..that’s weird, I thought i was the only one!
I only had the headgear, braces and plate though..should get the implants in the next few years. Good to know others exist…and look normal…
Oh, and love your comics, BTW, makes me want to move to America!
March 5th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
You think waking up in surgery is badass? Hellz no!! I was awake the whole time they were taking my teeth out. Super-freaky is the adjective that comes to mind.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:57 am
My mouth hurts now
March 6th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Send this to Raina! It’s so perfect for smile!
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/raina/smilecomics/series.php?view=archive&chapter=725
I just did a comic about my hideous dental endeavors for her.
here’s the page of all the guest strips:
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/raina/smilecomics/series.php?view=archive&chapter=23925&name=smilecomics
here’s mine:
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/memberimages/jessfink.jpg
Hot damn it is like child torture.
I have never heard of that button and chain business it truly frightens me to my core. Could you feel the hole in your gums??? UUUNNNNhappy.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
i did already and it was posted! wheee
March 9th, 2008 at 5:25 am
My buddy Hess woke up while having his wisdom teeth out. Yeah, he’s a big guy (bout 6′3″ and 250? lbs I would guess). Yeah. He broke the chair. Possibly the dentist as well…
March 20th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
OMG i had the SAME dental fuck ups!! i my eye tooth grew up in my face and I have to have implants put it!
January 20th, 2009 at 2:17 am
i totally had the chain on my canine but it was on the right side. once my tooth came down my orthodontist let me keep the chain. i don’t know why but i still have it. i hated that thing.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
4th year dental student here. Is this the right time to admit how much I love your comics? I hope so…
September 5th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
This is amazing!! I, too, am a victim of terrible teeth genetics, and this comic is pretty much IDENTICAL to all the stupid crap they put in my mouth!
Palatal arches are the fucking worst. The elastics are total bitches as well! One of my teeth grew in as a tiny little thin dagger, and they had to build it up with a venire to make it look like a normal human tooth rather than a retarded vampire tooth. Ugh.
February 4th, 2010 at 8:24 am
its times like these i have to say I LOVE MY TEETH cept the fact they are sensitive as all hell
February 26th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Never known anyone else to have the chain/button combo. They’re called buttons?
My chains were gold; they called me the “million-dollar man.” It hurt like hell.
March 26th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
hahahahaha hurt like a motherfucker…thats what zappa said…respect
March 26th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
i can understand…my mouth is decaying…figuritively and literally
September 7th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Yeah, I sucked my thumb way too long too (7th grade -.-’). Thankfully my front teeth didn’t get too messed up. But had to have braces because oddly enough the rest of my mouth was crap.
March 13th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I’ve had similar dental history. I had an open-under bite. So…
I had head gear to move my top jaw forward and bottom jaw back. That worked for a bit ’til they grew and went back to where they were. Then I had that palatal metal shit in my mouth where my mom had to expand it twice a day with a key (like you). Then I had braces for a year and a half (only my top teeth). I got the metal wire on the back of my teeth and had to wear the retainer every night. Then I had to get braces again (still have them). Got all 4 wisdom teeth out last January (’10). Then 8 weeks ago, I got surgery where he sawed my top jaw horizontally, moved it forward, screwed hooks in to attach them, sliced part of my bottom jaw on both sides near the back to shorten my jaw then screw them back together. In my x-rays, I have 3 screws on each side of my bottom jaw and 2 hooks on my top jaw. I also have little scars on my jaw on both sides of my face. Currently, I’m still wearing the braces (now with elastics) for another 6 months.
March 13th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Oh, and I had to get braces the first time because when I was younger, I sucked on a pacifier too much so my two front teeth were crooked and overlapping.
August 11th, 2011 at 12:53 am
I definitely know how you feel. When I was younger my mouth was too small so I had to have a bunch of teeth pulled. I also had an underbite and had to wear an irritating retainer that showed under my teeth. Got lots of questions about that… Also had headgear and braces and all that crap, but I’m finally done. I also know another girl whose missing the same teeth you were. Teeth do crazy things.