Distinctly off-white teeth
Jul. 14th, 2019 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcIt is with some resistance that I indulge society's expectations regarding my appearance, at least insofar as it diverges from how humans naturally are. I am already annoyed that I can't go shopping barefoot. I do bother to trim my wilder ear or eyebrow hairs or whatever but I certainly don't go as far as whitening toothpastes and other cosmetic treatments. I can imagine that I would be even more irritable were I female and implicitly expected by some fancy employer to shave my legs or whatever; my instinctive attitude would be more,
The above isn't to say that I am not curious about what is going on with my appearance. I've noticed that especially the sides of my lower front teeth seem rather brown-stained and I wonder what has changed. Is it just a natural part of aging? I wondered if it happened since I started drinking more coffee again. Over recent weeks I have tried rather reducing my coffee consumption, also black tea consumption, but with no perceptible reversion. Perhaps it is simply that the stains are long-lasting or maybe the coffee is irrelevant, I don't know.
I also don't much care at the moment. These days I am employed in a relatively junior role more behind the scenes, I am no longer a project lead traveling for meetings at NASA headquarters or on Wall Street or anything. That kind of thing I am at least fine to put on a suit and tie for. Still, understanding why my teeth's color changed might someday matter again. I am certainly not curious enough to pay any money to whiten my teeth; I probably don't care about the opinion of anybody who judges me on that basis. Reducing my coffee consumption already fits neatly with my habit of trying to go for periods with a low intake of popular psychoactive drugs; I similarly have the occasional week or two of being teetotal.
you hired a mammal, get over it. Were I in need of prosthetic limbs then I would be one of those who opt for the functional over the subtle regardless of the limbs' capacity to scare children.
The above isn't to say that I am not curious about what is going on with my appearance. I've noticed that especially the sides of my lower front teeth seem rather brown-stained and I wonder what has changed. Is it just a natural part of aging? I wondered if it happened since I started drinking more coffee again. Over recent weeks I have tried rather reducing my coffee consumption, also black tea consumption, but with no perceptible reversion. Perhaps it is simply that the stains are long-lasting or maybe the coffee is irrelevant, I don't know.
I also don't much care at the moment. These days I am employed in a relatively junior role more behind the scenes, I am no longer a project lead traveling for meetings at NASA headquarters or on Wall Street or anything. That kind of thing I am at least fine to put on a suit and tie for. Still, understanding why my teeth's color changed might someday matter again. I am certainly not curious enough to pay any money to whiten my teeth; I probably don't care about the opinion of anybody who judges me on that basis. Reducing my coffee consumption already fits neatly with my habit of trying to go for periods with a low intake of popular psychoactive drugs; I similarly have the occasional week or two of being teetotal.
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Date: 2019-07-27 08:53 pm (UTC)