Word: toothful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cookie, fretting over its maintenance, spending idle moments deciding if an acquaintance is worthy of receiving a cookie: all these things are natural. Bringing over cookies is the sign of utmost respect and sincere wishes for someone to feel better, to celebrate their birthday or to recover from wisdom-tooth surgery that makes cookie consumption impossible. From there, one builds an appreciation to the point where the sight alone of the cookie in the box--an island of sweetness and familiarity in the harsh, inedible world--is enough to drive one to finish a paper. That is beginning to understand...
Loaded down with too many heavy-duty courses about obscure topics with lengthy term papers, I decided a little late in the semester that I would indulge my Core tooth. I walked into Sanders Theatre to attend the fourth lecture of a certain well-known Harvard gut which shall remain nameless...well, okay--it rhymes with Gyros, pronounced correctly. Anyway, amid the post-lecture melee, I approached the head...
...bossy, wouldn't take naps and already knew how to tie my shoes. So, after two weeks of kindergarten, I was kicked out and enrolled in first grade. I didn't lose my last baby tooth until my sophomore year of high school and couldn't drive until senior spring. My friends had to buy my tickets to rated 'R' movies. This is the first year that I can legally buy cigarettes and I will most likely celebrate my anticlimactic twenty-first birthday in law school, pretending that...
Visiting the dentist may have just become easier. The FDA has approved Millennium, a laser-powered drill that uses a stream of water instead of metal blades to excavate tooth surfaces. The advantage: Millennium causes less pain than conventional drills, and it doesn't emit that hair-raising high-pitched whine...
...year-old woman who got into the habit of idly biting her metal tongue bar and one day bit down on it so hard she chipped off a piece of one of her molars. "In that particular case, all I had to do was grind the tooth and smooth it down," Maibaum says. "But if the fracture had gone down into the pulp, she would have needed root canal and might have lost the tooth...