The dentist (first time in 15 years!)

[Saintly]

mouth germs eat sugars and make acid which eat you teeth
food acids cause erosion - main from citric acids, sports drinks etc

you remove the food.
there are red disclosing tablets which dye the plaque red, therefore showing you where your teeth are skanky and therefore need to be cleaned better.
circular motions or flicking from the gums with a small head and soft bristled toothbrush and FLUORIDE toothpaste - as when you clean your teeth you are disturbing the plaque and then putting fluoride over the tooth surface to strengthen it

OK, that's too descriptive :P just as well I'm not the one with the problem (remember I hadn't seen a dentist for the first 30 years) and the first time I saw one, it was a bi-annual clean (my wife complained that I'm not utilising our health cover)

[nettie!]

OK, that's too descriptive :P

(my wife complained that I'm not utilising our health cover)

my mums a dentist

and lol at your wife! tf76 and i were just discussing what we're going to leave for health insurance to cover.. atm, making the most of healthcare card

[Unregistered]

i had four baby teeth with no adult teeth underneath. the dentist said this was highly unusual to have all four missing. i had to have jaw surgery, three wisdom teeth removed plus the baby ones all at the same time, complete blowfish

[shokwave2]

I had a throbbing wisdom tooth because another one was pushing from under it. I didn't even feel the needle and went back to work 15 mins after having it pulled. I thought wisdom's were supposed to be painful? I guess i was lucky. Or the chosen one...

[G1Optimal]

I'm scared.

Just thought of some advise that i try and use myself ...
"Think of Something worse" and "The faster it is done the sooner it is out of the way".