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cosmicfolklore

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Aug 9, 2013
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Last month, I started getting this knot in my cheek, and when I went to Google to see what beginnings of mouth cancer looked like. There were no pictures of very early signs. They were all just disgusting advanced stages. My dentist worked me in immediately. Turned out it was just a mucocele, and he told me to eat hard candy.

Anyways, it was a few hours of stress, but the dentist quickly absolved those fears.
 

anantaandroscoggin

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When on my second ship, at one time we got a noob aboard straight out of boot camp, who at the ripe old age of 19 had already been diagnosed with pre-cancerous lesions in his mouth. Seems he (and maybe everyone else local to his hometown) had been chewing tobacco since an very early age.
 

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I'm almost afraid to say this, but I haven't been to a dentist sinse 2017.
I have all but one of my teeth which got knocked out in a dirt bike incident. :)
My dad is 85 years old and has every tooth he was born with......you know what I mean.
I often THINK about making an appointment. But then the thought fades. Due to this thread, I'm going to follow through.
Thanks for the reminder fightnhampster.