And we got it with wonderful Karine Dreijer Anderson from The Knife. Try youtubing “Knife Silent shout” and find out about her perfect lyrics :

In a dream I lost my teeth again
Calling me woman and half a man
Yes in a dream all my teeth fell out
A cracked smile and a silent shout

Because dentists are thieves, mine got me into “devitalizing” a tooth from the back that was a bit sensitive. He never told me that taking the nerve out implied making a big hole in the tooth and making it more than sensitive : breakable ! Surprisingly, within days, it happened. This honest man proposed then to put a crown, for 500 euros “tops”. After a coupla month, an infection formed under the crown that was like a lid, exposing me to septicemia, blood poisoning ! The dentist had to break the 500 euros crown…

I didn’t replace it. Then, the same dentist missed a cavity and with a delay (or is it decay) of 3 months, had to empty this tooth, like the other one, making it breakable too, and I’m expecting now the moment it will.

But I never really lost a tooth. Until a month ago. I ate soja beans that had sand, two bites and the tooth (previously made breakable by my dentist, an expert at this, I understand too late), the tooth was dead, broken to the root. I never experienced pain like this. So tremendous, that it was a relief to have it extracted.

I was very upset about the perspective of my mouth without a tooth and the look of my husband on me. That son of a bitch 🙂 has the exact same tooth missing and so I emphasized the equality between us regarding this and the situation of the tooth in the mouth that shows a little bit, but not when we don’t juliarobertsmile. The son of a bitch. The night before he said something like “Yuk, you gonna be ugly !” “Right. You mean, like you ?”… I was so glad to go to my dentist after that.

Taking the tooth out was frankly medieval butchery. The 2 hands of a man into my mouth, pulling at my head vigorously, the way you’d do with an object ! All the time, I kept thinking at my husband, talking to myself without words, about the fact that it was necessary, beyond my health, that it was bringing us closer, equals in front of the ageing process and accidents of life. He and I, at 40, have no choice but fighting against the obsession about youth and looks. We must overcome the weakness that makes life cheap when we don’t look like our models, WE must make new models… The tooth was gone.

At first, I felt ashamed of smiling, because I can’t but crittersmile. Thank god, I can’t stop smiling and it’s a challenge to expose myself to everybody like this, and try to make it : hip 😀

A lot of stupid things are hip, in fact, hipness is always something meaningless, usually despised by the masses, recoded into something desirable, for the masses (red hair, tanned skin, etc). Why not a missing tooth, why not a so-called imperfection ? Like the strabismus of Bardot, Moss, Monroe, Cary Grant, Rita hayworth, etc. Like the shaved head of Sinead O’Connor. Clearly, it’s less ugly than the duck or pillow face, or giant boobs, ass, cheeks, or haircuts from outerspace. This is frightening. Natural imperfections are not, it’s like you farted or something. And everybody knows that everybody farts… Admittedly, a missing tooth in the front, may be be too radical. To begin with. Now, I remember a guy who was missing one of the two big ones in the front, who couldn’t avoid smiling all the time, and he was quite handsome. Some girls were bothered, but many others were after him). If a missing tooth in the front is a big challenge, on the side, it can be punky, cool. The beginning of new models.

Look at Edith Massey ! No, no : not that… I love her so much in Pink Flamingos and Polyester ! John Waters movies sucks without her.

– What’s the matter, ma petite ?

– Speak English, Cuddles !

xx

I felt my lower incisives were getting worn fast, and being only twentysomething I thought that was wrong. Went to this guy, who’s not only a dentist but a maxillofacial surgeon or something, and he told me that the problem wasn’t crooked teeth, it was my fucking jaw that was way back, so they might need to “readjust” it. Left that place scared to death and now I fear for the money I’ll have to pay for that surgery and for the surgery itself.

Sometimes I think it would be easiest just to have them all pulled at 40, and go for a really good pair of dentures…