National Toothache Day?🦷🪥😬

I was surprised to see that there was a 'National Toothache Day' celebrated on February 9th every year.

National Toothache Day

I can't say that I have ever suffered a toothache in my lifetime (touch wood), but I have been to the dentist quite often lately to have my silver childhood fillings replaced, after having one of my back teeth fall apart while chewing gum, which I wrote about in this post -

A Tooth Fairy-Story?🦷🧚

My broken tooth with
my old silver filling

My younger brother's tooth fell apart on the same night as mine did, while he was biting into a chocolate bar.
I hadn't been to a dentist since in my pre-teens when I got the 4 silver fillings I had in my mouth until the chewing gum incident.

I was also told by my dentist that I had been brushing too hard on one side of my mouth and had been brushing the enamel off those teeth.

I bought a set of miniature figures someone had donated to the op shop I work at part time, because one of the figures was a "trouble gum" packet with gum oozing out of the packet containing teeth.

There was also a tube of toothpaste with crap and maggots being squeezed out of the tube:-)

Until last Sunday I had these figures laying on my computer desk to remind me to not brush my teeth so hard, avoid eating junk food too much and to replace the last silver filling I have, as I was told it was the filling expanding and contracting over the years from hot and cold food and beverages that had cracked and weakened those teeth. 

I think I've learned my lesson from those figures and have since re-donated the figures back to the op shop last Monday for someone else to ponder the lessons of dental hygiene in their own life:-)

It's amazing to me that I managed to keep my teeth intact over the years while playing three different codes of football.

It's Super Bowl Sunday ...
but not in Australia?

Super Bowl Monday?🌎🏈📺🌏