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I had something stuck in my teeth

Posted: Nov 9, 2014

this is the second time this has happened to me. Something gets stuck in my teeth (once it was a piece of dental floss, this time a piece of meat). It stays there until it starts to smell bad, and after a few days I discover it and I'm so embarrassed. I had to go someplace the other night and discovered the problem two days later (I had a feeling something wasn't right, from the reactions I was getting from people). I was so mad at my husband. I said how could you let me go to the meeting with my breath smelling like that? He swears he didn't notice anything.

This stuff always happens to me. If it wasn't that, I'd have had lipstick on my teeth or a cracker crumb stuck to my lip. One time I had a clump of mud in my hair which no one bothered to tell me about. I'm just really embarrassed. I wonder why this stuff never happens to anyone else.

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LOL. This makes no sense - to me

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I think it seems like it doesn't happen to anyone else because most people brush their teeth daily or look in a mirror! "It stays there until it starts to smell bad, and after a few days I discovered it.." I'm confused that you'll have something in your teeth and that it will take a few days to notice. How do you get ready without looking in a mirror? And a clump of mud?

I didn't notice it days later - the clump of mud

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I noticed it when I got home that night. I brush my teeth twice a day. I don't use floss anymore since the "incident" where the piece of floss got stuck in my teeth. I use Stimudents. I look in a mirror on a pretty regular basis. Thanks for your kind words. I feel so much better now.

That is exactly why I said - it makes no sense

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You say you brush your teeth twice a day, yet talk about meat in your teeth that "stays there until it starts to smell bad, and after a few days I discover it.." ??

have you never smelled that smell on someone? - sm

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It's kind of a sweet but unpleasant smell. People with dentures often have the problem. People can't smell their own breath. Food does get stuck between teeth that brushing doesn't remove. May I remind you that you are not perfect either? I don't know why I come to this board.

and also - about the Stimudent

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I use the Stimudents pretty often and had actually been using them for a few days before my meeting, but apparently I missed that one spot. Which is why I was really upset. Those Stimudents (and water picking too) will let you know RIGHT AWAY if there's an odor coming from between your teeth.

Well, there was a failure in the -- geesh! -- - early warning system.

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I wouldn't call it a sweet but unpleasant smell, unless it is to the owner of the mouth. It is actually a distinctly excremental smell. I have seen people check their shoes when in a car with it.

Unless you are referring to "repellent coffee breath," which smells exactly and intensely like the yellow stuff, often to a yard or two away.

Just curious ... how did the mud get there? - Motorcycle? Wrestling? Other?

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I had caterpillars in my hair once. Little green ones that dropped off trees on my way to work. They were very cute. I took them outside and let them go.

well I had mud on my shoe - is how

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and I reached down and got the mud off my shoe and then got it in my hair, then went to my meeting. I can't believe no one could just say, oh, you have something in your hair. Did they think I wanted it there?

Stop! Stop while you are ahead! - TMI! TMI!

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NM

Stuff happens to all of us. - sm

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Maybe not the same thing happens, but something embarrassing happens to me on a regular basis. :) Recently on a windy day, my hair blew into my mouth while I was chewing gum. There wasn't much I could do about it at the time, but as soon as I got home I had to cut a piece of my hair to get rid of the gum. In the meantime, I just hoped nobody could see the gum dangling from my hair!

LOL!!! this thread cracked me up! The first 6 - posts were..sm

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hilarious, but after that people started to get insulting (the norm on this site). OP - I once had a paper clip stuck in my hair at work that no one could get out because somehow it got tangled in there. I had to fix my hair in such a way so that nobody could see it and when I got home, my husband tried to get it out and couldn't. I ended up using detangler and cutting a bit of my hair just to get it out.

And before anyone accuses me of not combing my hair, I comb and brush it daily; this happened at work somehow and I believe people trying to get it out made it worse. My hair tangles really easily.

Also, I fell of a bike a couple years ago at huge park in front of lots of people. I'm 40 now and back then thought I could still ride a bike even though it had been years. I forgot how much balance it takes to ride a bike or maybe I just started out pedaling too fast..not sure, but my kids and husband didn't make it any better they laughed and still laugh about it to this day. They say you never forget how to ride a bike; however, that's not always true.

My Take - See Msg

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You were mad at your husband because YOU had something stuck in your teeth? If getting angry at him for your stuff, no wonder he keeps his distance. You probably would have been ticked off if he had told you your breath stunk before the embarrassing incident. Sounds like a no-win for him.

Go back to using floss. Just be careful with it. The cheap stuff is the mostly likely to shred and break off.

no I was upset that he didn't tell me - how hard would that be?

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people can't smell their own breath. If he could smell my breath from across the room, he couldn't tell me before I went to my meeting?

Embarrassing things happen to everyone, but poor - oral hygiene is no accident.

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Getting a piece of floss stuck in your teeth is NOT an appropriate reason to stop flossing, and if you think that the only reason for flossing is to remove stuck food or that stimudents are adequate replacements, you are incredibly mistaken.

Floss is used to remove bacterial biofilm from between teeth and beneath the gumline. Used correctly, it prevents the development of periodontal disease and the inflammation that sets off cardiovascular disease. You need to floss daily.

You apparently also need instruction in how to use floss.

If you have teeth that trap food, remove it immediately. The SMELL isn't the big problem ... periodontal disease is.

My guess is that your husband has a poor sense of smell or you both do. It is also very likely that you have stinky breath all the time anyway, since you do not floss, and he cannot tell the difference between your usual breath and rotting meat.

There are many types of floss. If one sticks, try another. Waxed floss sticks less and Glide floss sticks less than that. Some flosses have precut lengths with threader ends so you can get between teeth that are too tight.

Flossing BEFORE brushing sticks less. You can put toothpaste on the floss to make it slipperier.

Since you probably have gum disease now, you should rinse thoroughly with hydrogen peroxide after brushing.

As for food on your face and lipstick on your teeth, a little care taken to pay attention to yourself and anticipate potential problems goes a long way. As does use of a mirror.

Frankly, I think your story is a little implausible. And disgusting. That's why I didn't beat around the bush with my answer. You have poor hygiene...goodness knows what else smells. Fix it. Fix all of it.

Your post made me laugh hard - Thanks

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nm

thank you my dentist says my gums look great - and furthermore

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I asked my hygienist if my breath smelled bad and she said no. If your hygienist can't tell you, who can?

You don't know me and it's really unfair of you to judge me this way. I shower daily and wash my hair, use deodorant every day, brush twice a day and use mouthwash, even check my tonsils to make sure there's no crap on them. I'm actually very meticulous about hygiene and appearance. I do agree I need to look in the rearview mirror before I go anywhere.

Err, are we supposed to check our tonsils??? - If we find something ...

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If we find stuff on them, what should we do???

I did not know that.

Ewwwwww - Too much info

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This post really grossed me out. Yeah we all have embarrassing things happen to us. I once had the back of my skirt stuck in my panty hose until a friend at work told me.

But you said you had meat stuck in your teeth and it stayed there til it smelled bad and after a few days you discovered it and you asked your husband how he could let you go to the meeting with your breath smelling like that.

That really made me nauseous. Then in another post you said you brush your teeth twice a day. First it's confusing because in your original post you said the meat was there for a few days and your breath was smelling bad, but then in another post you said you brush your teeth twice a day. I don't know which it is. It it's the latter, how come you didn't know you had meat in your teeth if you were brushing and flossing.

I don't know which of your posts is true if either, but either ways it's a huge ewwwwwww to come to the board and read that.

First, you need to resign from the victim club - and then laugh at these things!

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I've had so many embarrassing incidents due to chronic vertigo I've lost count. Head knocks, staggered walking, almost falls, etc., etc. at home and in public. I have a knot on my head right now from losing my balance and hitting my head. I felt dumb, for about a second. Then I laughed.

Life is way too short to take these things so seriously. And really, tear up your victim card. :-)

Staggering walk, bumping into things and - other things like you

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I thought it was aging, not sure now. My BP was low, running somewhere like 80/60s and I thought my constant bumping into things with my feet and also the staggering part, like I said, just aging. I tried my best to play it off, it was embarrasing to me to have people ask, are you okay? I am now going to a neurologist hoping maybe to get some answers. So far MRA of the carotids, no excessive plaque there, numerous lab tests all okay except for extremely low TSH (and had forgotten to take my medication several days so that should not be low), had head MRI and do not have the results yet, referral to cardiologist, everything checked out there. I have found out I have neuropathy in my feet (no diabetes) and that is the reason for my bumping into objects but have dizziness on bending over and still undergoing more tests. I have had many falls for no reason at all. Something is not right, just have not found out why the symptoms.

Just a suggestion ... - sm

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What you are describing could be a lot of things, but gluten-induced neuropathy and gluten-induced ataxia is one of them. Two members of my family had it.

Google it. It seems to be the most prevalent cause for idiopathic ataxia. It also seems to be reversible to a great extent. (Mine is gone.)

Staggering around and - vertigo

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I had a bad case of vestibular neuritis and have permanent damage to that nerve so I'll never be the same which is why I'll forever be staggering around, losing my balance if I turn too fast, bumping my head, etc. Also, I had an MRI with and without contrast of the head and neck to rule out anything else.

It is what it is and I just deal with it and try to ignore it as best I can and carry on.

I do brush twice a day - but the meat was stuck

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and brushing didn't get it out. And I DO NOT FLOSS and WILL NOT FLOSS since the time that the piece got stuck in there till it smelled bad. My teeth are rather close together. I think everyone should get a stimudent or waterpik right now and make sure YOU don't have floss or something stuck between your teeth that smells bad. You might be unpleasantly surprised.

It's quite possible - Don't blame her

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A small piece of meat can easily be trapped in a tight space between teeth. I floss three to four times a day, and after all the flossing I use a small dental brush between the teeth, turning it slightly while I clean. Sure enough, sometimes I will still recover a small piece of food. It doesn't mean a person is dirty. Also, acid reflux can cause terrible breath.

thanks to all who shared their stories - not alone

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I truly appreciate the nonjudgmental people who shared their stories in order to make me feel better.

Dental mirror. - SM

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Try checking with a dental mirror.

I have left ladies rooms with TP trailing from my shoe. I now check.

Once when there were no paper towels, I dried my hands with TP and did not realize it had stuck to my wrist and hands until it dried and started peeling off and dropping onto the table in a meeting. It still looked exactly like TP.

In a lav that had blower dryers, I would reel off a long length of TP to dry my hands and to open the exit door. I draped them around my neck. One day someone held the door open, so I didn't need to use it. I went out with the TP wrapped around my neck like Dr. Who's muffler. I went into a deli like that.

I once left the LR with my silky jacket stuck down inside the rear waistband of my pants and made it all the way to another building, through the cafeteria, and back to my office before I discovered it. Hundreds saw me. From the rear. Not one person said anything.

Another time I was distracted by someone and failed to zip my pants. I went around like that for hours.

Another time in the lav I was wearing id tags on a lanyard, so I flipped my stretchy top up over the girls to keep it all from flapping. Was in a huge rush because I was the next speaker at some presentation. Zoomed out with my top still up and my lingerie on full view.

No one EVER wants to talk to me unless I have been eating spring mix, and I have a veneer on a bicuspid that attracts the stuff like a magnet. Big bright green tooth. And it does not come off with anything you can do discretely.

I have leaned into tomato sauce on tables, leaving unfortunate splotches advertising my anatomy.

I can guarantee that anytime I have to look good at work, my zipper will fail, critical buttons will burst, or I will spill coffee down my front. Or my mascara will run, leaving me looking like Tammy Faye.

Mirrors, mindfulness, and fully matched sets of lovely lingerie are my solution. I also keep toothbrush, floss, makeup wipes, sewing kit, and a complete suit on hand in my office. Just in case.

To "Dental Mirror" Poster - anon

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Oh my goodness, you cracked me up! Thanks for the laugh! I especially liked the story of the TP hanging around your neck.

I forgot about this ... and it is awful - Dental mirror

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I completely forgot about the time I unwrapped a panty liner and stuck it to my top temporarily, but forgot to use it. And there it was, dangling there, juuuust out of visual range ...

My shirt - MTtoo

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I was at my doc's office, and the nurse came in and started laughing and said that I had my top on inside out. I just laughed and said, par for the course for me. I'm such a space cadet. Lipstick on my teeth, you name it, I've either had it or done it, but now that I'm getting older, it's just much funnier for some reason.

My mom's doctor - Miss Her

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was examining her and suddenly laughed out loud. Mom asked what was so funny. The doctor pointed out that he had just noticed he had two different socks on . . one was black, the other navy blue. That cracked my mom up!

I have a poop smell in my house and I cannot - find what/where it is!

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It really is quite unpleasant, but I suppose it will eventually dry up and go away.

I think that probably would have happened with your meaty teeth too.

I had something like that, too - Ick

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Several months ago, there was a rotting meat smell in my condo. Ripped the place apart trying to locate it. It kept getting worse. It finally got to the point that the neighbors' dogs were stopping by my front door, sniffing around the edges, and whining to get in.

It finally dried up. I think it was a pigeon that fell down the flue.

We have that smell - In our house

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Our well water has a lot of sulfur in it, and when our irrigation lawn system comes on at 4 a.m., it sinks in our house. Yuck.

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