Teeth 16 4 7 (16) 25 1 20

Which is saying something for one so upbeat a person as I but what I have to tell you today is a tale of such woe to be sure I would advise those of you of a sensitive disposition just to skip it and come back another day when the upbeat person returns... for I am about to talk about diseases again and that for one of the chief people interested in this blog, my eldest son S, would be sufficient warning for him to hike out and quick...hahaha

But then he would because he, like my elder brother J has despite his middle age 30 years younger than my brother a perfect mouth of teeth whereas I drew the short straw in that department like my father before me who when he didn't return from the war aged 39 the War Office returned his dentures together with his other personal effects like his wallet pocket watch and fountain pen...

Then my younger son P who incidentally is 30 years my junior likewise appeared to draw the short straw when the teeth were being handed out and P you may recall also had a heart attack as I and 2 of the sons of my father's sister L who herself died from hers aged 50, although poor P was only 45 when he fell victim...

So in the week I have been celebrating my survival 14 years on I got to visit my dentist the dear Gunila who has been my dental carer these past 22 years to have some teeth removed from my already partly depleted bottom set…horror of horrors!

And because my appointments with dentist and denture maker didn’t coincide exactly I have had to suffer the hardship and indignity of being without most of my lower jaw teeth these past 2 days not to mention the hardship associated with the actual pulling of a very stubborn premolar…

Well if that is the bad news the good news is that unless I open my mouth you could not distinguish me from a man 20 years younger than my years whilst my white-haired brother’s hair started turning grey already in his 30s…

And further good news hopefully when I get my new teeth later today will be that J my dental technician will also give me my delightful smile back with a mouth containing in both upper and lower jaws some of the teeth I have had these past 60+ years...

Of all the dentists I have ever had Gunila has undoubtedly been the best, and it was she who right from the first time I visited recommended the use of Ubiquinone Q10 as the vitamin many of us cease to produce for ourselves in middle age which is said to restore something of one’s earlier youthfulness and vitality by firing up the cells’ mitochondria…


That what goes on in the mouth and what goes on in the heart is well known to be intimately connected today and the bad old days of the 1940s 50s 60s and 70s when at the first signs of tooth decay the answer all too often was to extract the teeth and replace them wholesale with dentures so for a still fragile blogger I can I hope to come back another day with that rather upbeat smile on my face and at least for the present freely admit to life not always being the bed of roses modern medicine and dentistry has made it be. Have a good day everyone…hahaha.
                                          

P.S. No prizes for guessing which of these two pics shows my broad smile of 25 years ago and yes I had to delay posting my blog until I got something in my mouth to be pleased about!!    

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