Last night I was brushing my teeth with my new `extra soft` toothbrush and my favorite fluoride toothpaste. This time I wanted to get the back of the teeth nice and clean. I didn’t realize that brushing too hard could dislodge mercury fillings!
As I rinsed out my mouth, I saw something dark flush swiftly down the drain in a counter-clockwise position. I thought it was dark vegetable matter. But as my tongue probed my teeth for any possible places where the filling might have dislodged, I found the answer.
After a quick search online, it was the upper left 2nd molar that had lost its protective fillings. I could feel the pock marks too. For a quick reference list here is the names of the teeth, starting front left buckteeth:
- Upper left central;
- Upper left lateral;
- Upper left cuspid;
- Upper left 1st bicuspid;
- Upper left 2nd bicuspid;
- Upper left 1st molar;
- Upper left 2nd molar; and
- Upper left 3rd molar (wisdom tooth).
The rest are self explanatory. Just substitute upper with lower and left with right.
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