When I was recovering from sinus surgery, which fixed my breathing issues, I realized something: my gums stopped bleeding when I brushed my teeth. Before surgery it didn’t seem to matter what I did, my gums would bleed every time. Not a lot, but always a little. In the last 6-7 years, I had become cold sensitive as well. Something else that cleared up over a few months after surgery.

In the past it was frustrating and disheartening to be doing my best to take care of my teeth, but end up with cavities anyway. When I went to the dentist in February, two months before surgery, she remarked that my teeth seemed to be decaying and she wasn’t sure what was causing it.

To be fair, I’m not exactly entirely sure what was causing it either. But it seems likely that because of the intensive inflammation in my sinuses, this inflammation might have simply been so massive, it went all the way to my teeth.

Not to mention, when your body is in fight or flight and under strain it starts deciding what is priority and what is not. My fingernails were deemed not a priority, so they got paper thin and started breaking and chipping easily. Maybe my teeth fell by the wayside as well?

This trip to the dentist was far less unpleasant than usual. I had no cavities this time and my mouth was overall entirely healthier than it was at the beginning of the year. Which was really nice to hear.

Also, can we made fluoride treatment not taste like death? Is that humanly possible?