Do you still have most of your Natural teeth?

Eupher said:
Not sure what you mean. There is a technique called "circular breathing" for wind players (not just brass) who can inhale through their nose while simultaneously exhale through their mouth. Makes for some extended passages in playing which is kinda exciting to watch and listen to. I have not mastered that technique.

Trombone Shorty playing trumpet and circular breathing:

Some brass players can be successful with no front teeth at all. Chet Baker, trumpeter and singer, was able to bring that off, although he had no upper register to speak of.

Both front and bottom teeth are important to support the lips and mouth structure, which in turn creates the needed seal between lips and mouthpiece. But not too much pressure -- that's self-defeating.
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The Aborigines use circular breathing when playing the Didgeridoo. My son could do circular breathing when he played the Tuba as a young man.
 

My wisdom teeth were extracted in my early 20’s, two of which were growing in sideways, and required my jaw to be chipped! My face swelled up like a chipmunk following that experience.

After several dental fillings cracked following decades of service, they wanted to replace them but each time the tooth crumbled when they attempted that, so I have a few crowns as well…
 
Radrook said:
He seems to lack molars and bicuspids.
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Getting into the weeds with this, but Dizzy used his mouth chamber (and puffed cheeks) to augment his diaphragm, which wind players and singers are taught to use to provide that all-important breath support that is critical to good, centered sound production.

I have no idea what his dentistry was like, but in my own very brief conversation with him in the mid-1980s in West Berlin where he played a couple of sets in the Quasimodo, a jazz club, he seemed to have most of them, if not all. (Dizzy was on his way to the restroom, where I also needed to go, and watched him as he engaged in conversation with a fellow musician, a sax player. Dizzy had asked Paul (the sax player) where he was from and Paul replied, "North Dakota." Dizzy said, while standing at the urinal, "North Dakota? Wow! I've been to that cold-ass place!")

Dizzy zipped up, washed his hands, and went back to the stage -- the same stage, I would add, at which I saw Chet Baker perched on a rickety chair playing one of the final gigs he played in, I think 1987, before he leaped out of an Amsterdam hotel room window to his death.

But I digress.
 
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Radrook said:
At least they are not contributing to unnecessary damage and extractions as they have often done with me. Two pulled unnecessarily and two others seriously damaged. That isn't counting the unnecessary infliction of agonies and other malpractices at their offices.

Reminds me of this guy.

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My first thought was Dennis Hoffman in Marathon man. His being jabbed in a cavity by his enemy with a sharp, pointed dental instrument. :-o
 
Elsie said:
My first thought was Dennis Hoffman in Marathon man. His being jabbed in a cavity by his enemy with a sharp, pointed dental instrument. :-o
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Exactly the kind of dentists that I repeatedly encountered. Of course, motives varied as they do with all other human abnormal behaviors. But results were the same, the infliction of totally unnecessary suffering and damage. One, a general practitioner, even maliciously severed my tongue's frenulum with his thumb's nail while feigning to be examining at my vocal cords.

The lingual frenulum, also known as the tongue tie, is a small fold of tissue that connects the bottom of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. While this structure is perfectly normal and present in everyone,
Lingual Frenulum Hurts: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment - aasem.org
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oscash said:
The Aborigines use circular breathing when playing the Didgeridoo. My son could do circular breathing when he played the Tuba as a young man.
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Lewis Burns is an ambassador of the Aboriginal Tradition and carries the wisdom and knowledge of his elders around the world as he travels and shares his culture. At the Tribal Rhythms Gathering, participants will have the opportunity to study traditional didgeridoo rhythms with Lewis Burns.


Didgeridoo - Wikipedia​
 
All except for 3 that were removed in Navy boot camp in 1959. Usual maintenance of fillings when needed.
 
Nope... only have 13 originals left. Now, I've knocked out one of my front ones with a chop saw kickback, and maybe lost one or two for other reasons,but, almost all the others have just fallen out. No gum disease, or any known medical problems, doctors are stumped. They just fall out.
Myself, I'm pretty sure this is the work of a higher making me pay for the collection of teeth I acquired in Nam. (not my proudest moment). Can do nothing but roll with it.
 
When in the Air Force, my son had two wisdom teeth pulled without an anesthetic by a masochistic Air Force 'dentist' who criticized my son for yelling out in pain. Gee, I can't understand why my son would...... (cough)
 
squatting dog said:
Nope... only have 13 originals left. Now, I've knocked out one of my front ones with a chop saw kickback, and maybe lost one or two for other reasons,but, almost all the others have just fallen out. No gum disease, or any known medical problems, doctors are stumped. They just fall out.
Myself, I'm pretty sure this is the work of a higher making me pay for the collection of teeth I acquired in Nam. (not my proudest moment). Can do nothing but roll with it.
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I also very often wonder whether the many inexplicable negatives befalling me are in some way payback for wrongs that I have done, or if they might be suffering being deemed essential to the refinement of character. Either way, I am not too happy to be experiencing them.
 
Elsie said:
When in the Air Force, my son had two wisdom teeth pulled without an anesthetic by a masochistic Air Force 'dentist' who criticized my son for yelling out in pain. Gee, I can't understand why my son would...... (cough)
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He is a sadist. Masochists derive pleasure from experiencing pain and humiliations. Sadists derive pleasure from inflicting them, as he did to your son.

Here is a clip of a sadist dentist, Steve Martin, encountering a masochistic patient, Bill Murray.

 
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In the chair now. Having another old silver filling cracking so getting another crown. Crown đź‘‘ looks good on me. Was going to have a wisdom tooth crowned but dentist thought it was a really bad idea because not a lot of tooth was there, so I'm missing one wisdom tooth now.
 
Radrook said:
He is a sadist sadistic. Masochists like experience pain and humiliations. Sadists like of inflict them as he did to your son.

Here is a clip of a sadist dentist, Steve Martin, encountering a masochistic patient, Bill Murray.

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Payback for wrongs done, nah, resulting consequence possibly. Do you remember the movie Little Shop Of Horrors? When a young man, Jack Nicholson played a tooth pain loving masochist. lol
 
There's lots of Silver, Gold and Porcelain in there... :D
All joking aside, we go to the Dentist every 3 months as we have good Insurance from I the time hired on with Mobil Oil way back when.
When we was younger/poorer, I did not take good care of my teeth - and I paid the price for a couple of years getting back in shape when I went to Mobil Oil and had good insurance.
Having good tooth healthcare available is so nice.
Without it, I would probably be gumming it or buying up tubes of Fixodent.
I feel sorry for folks w/o good insurance and having to put up with bad teeth. i saw a lot of that in the Oilpatch. Sad....

ETA - I had my Wisdom Teeth took out when I was young. I think 17 or 18 ??. What I do recall is that it was a miserable and painful ordeal. And they did one side and let it heal up and then come back for another round of fun and games....
 
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Radrook said:
I also very often wonder whether the many inexplicable negatives befalling me are in some way payback for wrongs that I have done, or if they might be suffering being deemed essential to the refinement of character. Either way, I am not too happy to be experiencing them.
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I believe there are inexplicable negatives for sure.
 
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Elsie said:
Payback for wrongs done, nah, resulting consequence possibly. Do you remember the movie Little Shop Of Horrors? When a young man, Jack Nicholson played a tooth pain loving masochist. lol
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UNFORTUNATELY, the statistical unlikelihood's of the exact events in my case indicates something other than mere coincidence. I never watched the first Shop of Horrors. I only briefly view a clip of the original scene. Does Nicholson do a better job portraying of the masochist in your opinion?
 
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Your statistics lead me to wonder if you took legal action. Jack Nichelson's portrayal I see as dark, torture loving, masochistic, whereas Murray's portrayal was a "humorous/goofball" :) portrayal.
 
Elsie said:
Payback for wrongs done, nah, resulting consequence possibly. Do you remember the movie Little Shop Of Horrors? When a young man, Jack Nicholson played a tooth pain loving masochist. lol
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Elsie said:
Your statistics lead me to wonder if you took legal action. Jack Nichelson's portrayal I see as dark, torture loving, masochistic, whereas Murray's portrayal was a "humorous/goofball" :) portrayal.
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I will take a look a the Nicholson version if I can find it.

About the extremely unlikely events, well, the very nature of the events leave me without anyone to take legal action against.
 
I am missing three molars and one of my front teeth was replaced with a bridge. The molars were from decay. When I was about ten years old we used to get our drinking water from one of our neighbours well. One winter night it was my turn to get two pails. The pump handle was made of steel and it was a very cold night. After about three pumps and the water coming from the well caused some resistance the handle slipped out of my hands and hit me in the mouth. I finished pumping the water and walked home. By this time my face was covered in blood from where the tooth came through my upper lip. Broke a big chunk out of my tooth.
Years later a dentist tells me the tooth is dead and I need a root canal. That will never happen again! After about three months of anti biotics, much pain and a swelled face he had to agree to pull the tooth.
 

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