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Its funny how the little things can get a person down. I had some problems with my teeth three years ago, and it was 2 years of on and off pain and dental visits. Unlike you tho, I've had teeth problems my whole life, just because of a couple years of neglect on my part, what a dummy I was! But I basically do the same thing that you do when something like that happens, I'm not very good at being sick or in pain. We all realize at some point that we fall apart a little. I'm glad you have no pain.
I cracked a tooth in my extreme anxiety and tension in the political situation last fall. Yes, my teeth are pretty old, too, but I think it would have happened anyway.
Then, I don't understand "feeling like a teenager/feeling old." However you feel, your age is your age. If you're 67 and feel vigorous, that's 67!
In March 2020, on the last day before the stay at home order in my state, I had an appointment to pick up my new hearing aids. As I was getting ready to go to the appointment I broke a tooth in the bottom front row. I was stupid, using one of those dental picks to try and clean between two teeth, and the top broke off. I called my dentist, and they told me to come within 30 minutes. I was supposed to be at the hearing aid place in 30 minutes. Nevertheless, I went to the dentist and he fixed my tooth. (Cosmetic, but really I was distraught). He said if it had happened a day later, I would have to wait four weeks for reopening.
I got to the hearing aid place before they closed for the day, and got my hearing aids in the nick of time. They had to close for four weeks also.
As I was driving home with the new hearing aids, after the dental fiasco, all the noises and sounds of cars was unbelievably loud. Apparently, this happens until they get used to you. I felt like I was 100 years old by the time I got home. So yes, things happen out of the blue to make you feel like you are falling apart.
I consider myself active for my age but last Christmas at the airport it was a long way to the baggage claim and my under the seat bag was heavy and I was getting tired and a lady saw me and offered me a ride in a wheelchair. Nothing makes you feel old like riding in a wheelchair.
My dad had dentures in his 50's. A lot of pain when he was going through the procedure, but afterward he was fine. I do remember when he died at 93, he slipped into a coma and when I visited, he was completely changed, really looked old with no teeth.
I'm 67 and still have my own teeth but they are falling apart. I'm missing one molar, the tooth next to it is broken, and all my upper teeth look to be in bad shape. I'll probably have dentures in a year or so. Oh well!
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