I tried to save two days after an extraction and lost eleven, which is the most predictable trade I have ever made.

Every sensible piece of dental first aid assumes you are standing on a floor near a phone, which is the one thing you are not.

It took a jaw that locked halfway through a yawn in a supermarket car park to make me stop ignoring it.

My dentist turned the mirror round and showed me the edges of my front teeth going see-through, and nothing had ever hurt.

A tooth on wet decking looks smaller than you expect, and almost everything I did that first time was wrong.

Two guards live in my gear bag, one cheap and one from a lab, and for years I assumed they were the same thing.