Post what you're thinking right now.

[DirtDawg]

This year I really am going to stop smoking.

...once and for all! ONE last time, even if it hairlips GOD, I will, too.

(I can probably get enough money for my Petersons, Jarls, Savinellis, and Dunhills to buy a decent kick around camera, if I had Nut number one.)

[duncvis]

How do you plan to do that? 

By not lighting any. I have other stuff I need to spend the money on, like decorating, and upgrading my creaky old computer.

[Litigious]

My mother smoked Red Prince from 15 to 45, about 20 cigarettes a day. When she was 45, grandfather died of cancer, not from smoking but anyway. She stopped smoking and hasn't lit a cigarett ever since. It's 17 years ago.

[odeon]

This year I really am going to stop smoking.

This year? You only have two days left.

[El]

My teeth had better get DAMN white, because these frickin' white strips kinda hurt.

[Peter]

My teeth had better get DAMN white, because these frickin' white strips kinda hurt.

Isn't the pain a sign that they're damaging your teeth?

[ozymandias]

My teeth had better get DAMN white, because these frickin' white strips kinda hurt.

Isn't the pain a sign that they're damaging your teeth?

My 14 y/o daughter wanted to use them, so we bought them and she stopped using them after a week or so!

Oh the vanity of youth!  My teeth are not white and if people are repulsed, so fucking be it!

[El]

PM-  No, they hurt my gums, not my teeth.  Gums can repair themsleves so I'm not worried.  It just kinda stings and my gums feel sensitive.  The reason for this is that there's a lot of overlap between the tops of my teeth and my gums as far as what the whitestrips cover.  Right now what I do to alleviate it is to try to get the worst of it off my gums with a q-tip.  I only have half a week to go of the little fuckers so I'm seeing this through unless I start spitting blood or something equally dramatic.

Ozy-  Yes, it is the vanity of youth; if I'm stuck with a body wrecked by ex-fat at least my teeth can look white if not straight.  Plus the kit was a Christmas present, and it woudl so disappoint my mother if my ugly crooked teeth were not a whiter shade of beige when she next saw me.

[ozymandias]

Ozy-  Yes, it is the vanity of youth; if I'm stuck with a body wrecked by ex-fat at least my teeth can look white if not straight.  Plus the kit was a Christmas present, and it woudl so disappoint my mother if my ugly crooked teeth were not a whiter shade of beige when she next saw me.

Well, my condolences to you and your teeth.  I could think of better gifts to give my daughter for Xmas.   At least Amber made the request on Her own!  BTW, in the pictures I'v seen of you with a smile that shows teeth..they look fine!  For that matter you look fine!  I wish you a better self body image for the New Year!

Peace

[Litigious]

Do those home kits really make any remarkable improvement? I have pretty white teeth but not really white, so I've thought about bleaching mine, but my dentist said my teeth were too sensitive. I've tried one home kit that contained sodium chlorine and sodium hydroxide as bleachers, but it made no visible different, except it actually removed all remains of plaque on the inside of the front teeth, that I couldn't brush away. But now there is a home bleaching kit available with karbamide peroxide in it, as the dentists use. It's milder than hydrogen peroxide, but booth are said to make the teeth hurt a little. I don't want to risk pulpititus.

[Randy]

I remember something having to do with calcium in relation to teeth whiteing.  I know that calcium phosphate is the form of calcium in the teeth.

[Litigious]

Yes, the teeth mainly consist of calcium phosphate, except for the enamel, that consists of calcium hydroxi-apatite (I hope the spelling is correct). When you bleach the teeth, there will always come some bleaching chemichals into the teeth and dissolving them a little. They probably put in calcium phosphate to compensate for that.

[El]

My mother heard peroxide is good for your teeth because it kill bacteria.

Ozy- I asked for tooth whitener for Christmas.

[Randy]

hydrogen peroxide also hurts healthy cells to.

[Litigious]

Yes, that's correct, but when you use tooth bleaching, there is a protective gel to cover the gums with, so that only the teeth will be exposed to the peroxide. There are no living cells in the teeth themselves, except for in the pulp.