The doc whose mouth was a mess

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That's amazing. I can't imagine a doctor, even one who's a dentophobe

(and believe me, I know about dentophobes, having been one) letting

that happen with his teeth and doing nothing about it.

To me, that's reason to doubt is values and judgment...

If only for health reasons, he should know better. And if he's like

most docs, he had the means to get it done.

Oh well. None of my business...

I do have one doc who told me he'd tried braces as an adult, and

couldn't bear the pain, so had them removed. I didn't ask, but would

guess that he didn't try long enough -- or that he had a nasty, evil

orthodontist. (I know. Most of them are neither evil nor nasty, and

mine is a saint, but there are a few rotten apples in the bin, such

as they fellow who treated minirascal when she was a child and

insisted that when her jaw locked, she was faking it to keep him from

working on her! Also incredible!) And this doc had nice-looking,

clean, otherwise well-kept teeth.

Cammie

> While I hate to admit it... he has a point. I would definitely date

a

> guy with braces because at least he's " in the works " but I will

admit

> that my last boyfriend, whom I dated for a year and a half, really

> needed braces. At the beginning, I just was not so attracted to

him. We

> started dating when I got to know his personality and his teeth

began

> to matter less and less.... eventually though- especially when

other

> things started annoying me, I found myself looking at his teeth and

> thinking " he really should get those fixed " ... mind you, I was not

> wearing braces but his were cosmetically a lot more distracting

than

> mine were. I felt bad that I thought that but, well, I did. After

that

> relationship ended, when I started dating again, nice teeth were a

very

> big plus. I don't think that moving forward, if I ever was single

> again, I would feel comfortable dating someone with bad teeth...

(maybe

> if they were european... but even then...) I invested the time and

> money to work on my smile because as an adult who owns a mirror, it

is

> important to me. It's weird to me to think that an otherwise a

smart,

> ambitious & social person would not be interested in fixing his

> messed-up teeth. It just doesn't add up.

>

> One more thing... just to make me sound a bit more shallow... if

> possible...

> My ex-brother-in-law was a doctor- really high-up in his field and

well

> respected and all that. He had NASTY teeth (some were pushed back

and

> gray- others twisted) and I could never stop thinking.... If this

guy

> can't even take care of his own mouth, why would any of his

patience

> think he is diligent enough to take care of their whole bodies? I

could

> never understand how my sister kissed him and even if I thought he

was

> a great guy, (which I didn't) I could never, ever, ever have dated

him.

> Again. I know it's shallow & judgemental and I hope I don't offend

> anyone here but I figure we are all in this forum because we are

aware

> of how distracting bad teeth can be...

>

> Tova

>