pot and yur dentist...

[Skink]

Well I am having dental work done at a university of dentistry and my student dentist "top notch student Dentist" said "are You smoking again"???

I thought there was no staining from cannabis,but...

I said I was drinking a lot of coffee lately,but I know she is convinced I am smoking...

[phytokind]

Gum health and general oral health are supposedly influenced heavily by anything that is smoked, and I'm pretty sure that any dentist will be able to tell if you're smoking, but it's unlikely that they'll be able to tell what you've been smoking.

[LIP]

Unless as you open your mouth you blow a hit out and the room fills up with a cloud of smoke followed by uncontrolable laughing

My doctor knows i smoke it, my dentist does too, infact, everyone.

When i got arrested last year the cops saw that i smoked it, i had like 5 grinders out, baggies all over, my pipes, 3 bongs [a 2 footer, a BIG ass home made one and a little bottol bong] and they couldnt do jack shit cos i didnt actually have any buds on me.

Our laws are better than americas... we dont get done for paraphenalia or resin on pipes and bongs.


:D

and afetr 3 or 4 months on bail, maybe even longer they finaly found out i didnt try and rob anyone.

Damn, i hate the cops.

[RedLocks]

Unless as you open your mouth you blow a hit out and the room fills up with a cloud of smoke followed by uncontrolable laughing

My doctor knows i smoke it, my dentist does too, infact, everyone.

When i got arrested last year the cops saw that i smoked it, i had like 5 grinders out, baggies all over, my pipes, 3 bongs [a 2 footer, a BIG ass home made one and a little bottol bong] and they couldnt do jack shit cos i didnt actually have any buds on me.

Our laws are better than americas... we dont get done for paraphenalia or resin on pipes and bongs.


:D

and afetr 3 or 4 months on bail, maybe even longer they finaly found out i didnt try and rob anyone.

Damn, i hate the cops.

yeah that would be a possession charge here, along with the paraphenalia charge of course, total shit.

[TallulahGreen]

I smoked a lot of freakin weed and it doesn't do anything to my teeth. Never has my dentist asked me if I smoked or anything(never been a cigarette smoker)..I take really good care of my teeth..they are not stained by anything.. :)

[Skink]

I smoked a lot of freakin weed and it doesn't do anything to my teeth. Never has my dentist asked me if I smoked or anything(never been a cigarette smoker)..I take really good care of my teeth..they are not stained by anything.. :)

Thats wut I thought... My teeth look like they are progressively getting whiter since I put ciggs down a couple years ago...

I do drink 4 or 5 cups of coffee daily and still notice a whiter smile... Granted I am not an obsessive brusher,but do brush regularly...

[benagain]

Cigs are bad but any kind of smoke is gonna stain. All smoke has tar. Tar is nasty and stains. Cut the coffe out and get some good toothpaste. Good luck :thumbsup:

[phytokind]

Ah but it's not your teeth, it's your gums and the other soft parts.

[TallulahGreen]

I am crazy. I floss everyday and brush probably 3 times a day.

[canucktoker]

Pot stains your teeth, look at what it does to your fingers.

[NightProwler]

who cares lol. nobodys gotta be perfect.

[Kid Dynamite]

no dentists has ever said anything to me about smoking, and my teeth have pretty bad stains on them. I always make sure i dont smoke for at least a couple of hours before going though, poking around in someones mouth is a pretty nasty job anyway without making it worse.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Shhhhh don't tell anyone but I am a student dentist. (I've said too much!)

Yes, the smoke will stain your teeth like cigarette smoke, but also likely is that your gum tissues are irritated from the heat of the smoke. So unless you are a weed hog, it's more likely the gums than the teeth that are showing it. Also if you eat a lot of sweets or drink sodas when you get the munchies then you might get more cavities.

Here's something important though -- if you smoke in the couple of days before your dental appointment, the anesthetic (most call it "novocaine" but it's actually lidocaine) won't work as well as it would if you had been sober for a week or so. The marijuana increases the tolerance to the local anesthetic. So, she may have known from that reason also.

Just FYI... now to crawl back under my rock of anonymity.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Oh yeah... and don't tell your doctor/dentist about it if you don't want them to write it in your medical chart. Because unless they are incredibly, incredibly cool they probably will. FYI.

[Dutch Masta]

Who cares? Most of the population smokes either cannabis or tobacco on a daily basis. The only thing I'd worry about is the dentist bringing that up in front of your mom or something.

[funky not a junky]

I went to the dentist yesterday... My teeth are fine, but my gums are and have always been very sensitive, so i think that i should be fine for future dentist appointments
:thumbsup:

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Well, you may not care, but believe me, there are plenty of uptight employers who would fire someone if they got their hands on a medical chart and got it into their head to conduct random drug screenings. I wouldn't want my employers and/or school administrators to know. I have a lot to lose. So I think it's important that people know how to keep it quiet everywhere they go, including in a so-called "confidential" setting like the doctor or dentist.

[birdgirl73]

TheSmokingMonkey, I'm curious whether your dental program required an agreement that you wouldn't do "street" drugs? My medical program did, and so I'm not smoking. I smoked in college and then didn't smoke for many many years, but then we got some medicinal weed for my sister, who has cancer, this past summer, and I smoked with her before school started. But now that I'm in school, I'm staying clean out of fear. A large part of my motivation--larger than the agreement I signed, really--is that one of these days we'll be conducting various lab tests upon ourselves. I'd be terribly embarrassed if a drug or toxicology screen came up positive for me, the fourth oldest person in class. Also, I truly seem to require every brain cell I can muster up, and for some reason weed seemed to deplete me of IQ points.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

I don't remember signing anything. We do have a policy that says we will be punished or whatever, but since I don't do it at school I don't really worry about it too much. I know that once you *have* a dental license it can't be taken away for drug "problems" - usually you are just required to undergo treatment or whatever. If you got a DUI or something, a possession charge, it wouldn't impact your license unless you were impaired *at work*.

So anyway I don't know the details of my school's policy but I don't forsee them testing unless they had reasonable cause (which I don't give them, since I only do it at home).

I'm sure I am putting myself at some risk, but if I ever get "called" on it I am going to play the card that I wasn't high at school so they have no right to sanction me at school. It's like sanctioning me for drinking heavily on the weekend -- as long as I show up sober on Monday, it's fine.

I wouldn't do it, either, if I was expected to conduct toxicology screens on myself! Eeek!

[infumus k]

Meth heads have disgusting mouths. Just think about the mouth of the plant from "little shop of horrors" but on a human.

[Skink]

Shhhhh don't tell anyone but I am a student dentist. (I've said too much!)

Yes, the smoke will stain your teeth like cigarette smoke, but also likely is that your gum tissues are irritated from the heat of the smoke. So unless you are a weed hog, it's more likely the gums than the teeth that are showing it. Also if you eat a lot of sweets or drink sodas when you get the munchies then you might get more cavities.

Here's something important though -- if you smoke in the couple of days before your dental appointment, the anesthetic (most call it "novocaine" but it's actually lidocaine) won't work as well as it would if you had been sober for a week or so. The marijuana increases the tolerance to the local anesthetic. So, she may have known from that reason also.

Just FYI... now to crawl back under my rock of anonymity.
Can I ask wut part of the country u are in???,,,maybe I know U...LOLz...

I had just smoked,I put it out as I entered the building... But really can U tell if the staining is from smoking or from coffee and soda???