So Pam Ayres was right :)

Remember this one?

I Wish I'd Looked After My Teeth
by Pam Ayres

Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth,
And spotted the perils beneath,
All the toffees I chewed,
And the sweet sticky food,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.

I wish I'd been that much more willin'
When I had more tooth there than fillin'
To pass up gobstoppers,
From respect to me choppers
And to buy something else with me shillin'.

When I think of the lollies I licked,
And the liquorice allsorts I picked,
Sherbet dabs, big and little,
All that hard peanut brittle,
My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My Mother, she told me no end,
"If you got a tooth, you got a friend"
I was young then, and careless,
My toothbrush was hairless,
I never had much time to spend.

Oh I showed them the toothpaste all right,
I flashed it about late at night,
But up-and-down brushin'
And pokin' and fussin'
Didn't seem worth the time... I could bite!

If I'd known I was paving the way,
To cavities, caps and decay,
The murder of fiIlin's
Injections and drillin's
I'd have thrown all me sherbet away.

So I lay in the old dentist's chair,
And I gaze up his nose in despair,
And his drill it do whine,
In these molars of mine,
"Two amalgum," he'll say, "for in there."

How I laughed at my Mother's false teeth,
As they foamed in the waters beneath,
But now comes the reckonin'
It's me they are beckonin'
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.

Well, a report just published seems to show that failing to look after your teeth seriously and significantly raises the danger of suffering heart disease. Here's the link
Happy brushing!

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They always come up with something else to worry us with, don't they!

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If I had ever had children I would have told them one thing;

Go out on the pull by all means but take a toothbrush. A clean mouth compliments a dirty mind .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V71nnjl9jQ

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Whats new in that! we all knew how important it was to brush our teeth when we were children, talk about stating the obvious! a dirty mouth is bound to cause all sorts of health problems later in life. We pay these morons to tell us this!.

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You can actually die if you have a number of untreated abscesses in your mouth according to my dentist.

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I would like to see the research. If you don't care for your teeth, you probably don't care about your diet etc. Tenuous link.

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I saw a worm the other day
Wriggling on its belly
I watched it for a little while
Then squashed it with my wellie

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They use to say back in the 60's that shampoo ( Mens use of ) would make you go bald. I remember Men never used the stuff before Alma Cogan started making it look sexy with her (Silverkrin?) ad in the Cinema. Come to think of it, you never saw a bald tramp in those days.

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Mmm... I had a succession of dreadful dentists as a child (No anaesthetic or high speed drills then). As a young adult I continued to trot obediently along and take care to do as ordered. Until the day I was told I needed 15 fillings.
I walked out, went elsewhere.. and was told I needed 2. Subsequently I had a dreadful encounter with a dentist putting in a crown in a hurry losing his temper and using his full strength to ram it into my gum. It fell out later and strangely I didn`t go back.
If anyone invents painless dentistry and a system of checking on the quality of their work it would do more for the nations teeth than any anount of scare stories.