OMGZ WE DONT GET CAVITIES!1!1!!! FTW?!!?

Yeah.

As a mildly overweight pre-teenager, I really don’t brush much. Once every couple of days. I have had two cavities, and surprisingly, these were acquired when I was young and brushed twice a day or more.

And as far as “Fat kids and candy,” goes…Well, I don’t eat anything really sugary. Frankly, the only kind of genuinely good candy in my book is a lollipop. Oh well, I guess we’re all just going to keep stuffing our fat faces until the cows come home, wrecked with obesity from being fed with a non-diverse, vitamin-less diet. (But who knows, maybe they don’t eat grass.)

Wait! Saliva pH? There’s a reason I never brushed before I was 11 and never got cavities, then brushed maniacally after I got braces and wound up needing 5 root canals?! Holy crap!

And I hear you about the annoying disbelieving dentists. I can swear to them up and down that yes, I brush twice a day, and I floss once a day, minimum, and I don’t eat much sugar, but they still try to find some way to blame me. I should just be flossing three times a day, of course! There was one pediatric dentist I saw for years who assured me I just had the softest enamel in the universe. I don’t understand why they can’t cut me the same slack as an adult.

But hey, at least every tooth came in straight, wisdom teeth and all. Everybody else out there who is lazy enough to have impacting wisdom teeth and need all that oral surgery, well, you’re just driving up my dental insurance premiums. Or would be, if I had dental. ;-)

Sarahau, I’m pretty sure that comment was just riffing on people who do feel morally superior for being thin, white, whatever, and using good teeth as another example of something people might feel superior about, but which you really shouldn’t, because you have no real control over it.

Sometimes satire doesn’t come across well in text.

Cats, big fluffy white ones for a wedding.

So yeah, I read this as “cakes, big fluffy white ones.” And the idea of cakes jumping out of other cakes is just delightful to me. (But I am a big fan of good cake — Krista, I’ll eat your share.)

I’m full of cavities and am relatively thin (was skinny skinny skinny until I had babies). I could care less about fatty saltly stuff (z z z z to the potato chips) but if there’s anything sweet… get out of my way or you’ll be injured!!!

Could sugar speed up your metabolism as it’s rotting your teeth? Interesting… I’ll have to think about that one over a cup of hot chocolate… mwah ha ha

Anyway, I was slightly freaked out by this comment:

“Man, it’s not often I get to feel morally superior by virtue of genetics, but I do have apparently impervious teeth.”

I’m just uncomfortable with idea of moral superiority existing for any reason, and certainly not because of genetics.

Isn’t size acceptance about taking morals out of the picture in relation to health. We can’t pick and choose what to feel superior to others about and then complain when it works “against” us.

Also, my Mum and Dad had crappy teeth and both had them removed before I was born. Mum lost hers by the second child and I am her sixth. My teeth are thin, hair is nearly nonexistant and nails have gone to shit. I’m questioning whether I just didn’t get enough of whatever I needed in utero for these organs to function properly.

It’s obviously complicated.

I completely agree. I find the possible motivations behind such a study to be really fucking off-putting and bizarre.