--- dsk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Or maybe gum disease was involved since that makes > the gums recede, so > the teeth look unnaturally long.
... which is where the expression "long in the tooth", referring to someone looking, er, older came from. That's a mess to > fix properly if it's > really advanced. My sister had some weird thing for this involving placing tiny beads of glass or some such thing between the teeth (below the gum line) and gums, which is supposed to stimulate the gums to grow (something like that - it sounded very weird to me, and it reminds me that I must remember to floss my teeth regularly to avoid this.) My boss got braces when she was in her 40s and then had some horrible surgery on her gums too - the way she described it, this could be what Joni had done, because it sounded very unpleasant. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
