Eddie will probably suffer a seizure reading this post.

Take a valium before reading Eddie. lol.
As long term Diners know, right around when we launched the Diner I headed down to Mejico to have most of the rotten teeth in my head yanked out on the cheap by a Mexican Dentista, which overall went quite well. However, I never really liked the Dentures, even after Eddie relined them when I was down in TX for the Convocation. So I haven't used them at all for the last 2 years, I get by with just the 6 front upper teeth left in my mouth, which actually aren't all really my teeth, just Stubs with Caps on top of them.
I can chew most anything besides Nuts, using the top front teeth against my lower gums, even chewing up steak is not a problem, at least if it a relatively tender cut. Fish and chicken, no problem, cheese no problem, spaghetti and rice no problem, etc. You just do not really need a whole lotta teeth long as you have some tools to dice the food up with. Even Nuts are possible if you have a Mortar and Pestle, ocassionally when I get a hankering for Pistachios, I grind them up in the mortar and spoon the dust into my mouth. Works
GREAT! 
However, without those last 6 teeth at the top, I would be limited down to baby food, mostly soups and well ground up stuff I can swallow whole. Most digestion takes place in your stomach, so if you dice anything up small enough so you can swallow it, you really do not need to chew it. This is the whole fallacy behind Gail Tverbergs' "Small Jaws" hypothesis on why Homo Sap can't survive without Cooking Food.
So anyhow, I am happily going along here the last few years
PAIN FREE with
ZERO DENTAL BILLS from high priced Dentistas, eating most of what I like with no problem, without even using fucking Dentures! Once the fucking teeth are
OUT of your head, not much for the Dentista left to work on or charge you through the nose for.
However, those last 6 Teeth Stub/Caps at the top front of my mouth are important Cosmetically, and they still do allow the in-mouth experience of chewing, which is nice though not necessary.
Unfortunately however, about 3 days ago, the Gums above my Right Front Tooth mostly, but also to an extent my Left Front Tooth got swollen and sore. I ignored in for a day, but by day 2 it was making my chewing painful to do, and I could tell it was getting worse. I also am well aware that these type of gum infections can move into your heart and elsewhere in your meat package and wreak further havoc. I had to
FIX this fucking problem!
Fortunately for me, in my Medicine Cabinet I am
WELL STOCKED with Anti-Biotics. I never use all the ones prescribed, and between my dental issues over the years and the operations, I have hundreds of these pills, mostly Amoxicillin. Of course, since some of them are 4 years old, they are theoretically out of date, but I keep them frozen in vacuum sealed bags, so basically they are really still fine. No different really than the 5 year old Cream Cheese I recently consumed.
So I developed my Treatment Plan, which was to crack open a bag of Amoxicillin and down 3 of those a day until
*hopefully* the swelling and pain went away. However, this was not the end of my treatment plan.
I reasoned that Gums are membranes which will allow surface antibiotics lathered to penetrate them easily, and be localized to the neighborhood of the infection. So to do some Backup to the Amoxicillan, what I did was take a tube of off the shelf Neosporin Ointment, squeeze it onto a Q-tip, and then Swab my Gums with this once every 4 hours or so. You're not supposed to ingest this stuff, but I figured the small amount I was swabbing onto my gums probably would not kill me, but would hurt those mother fucking bacteria worse.

I also did some mouthwashing with Hydrogen Peroxide solution between applications to back this up. It was me against the bacteria, and I pulled out all the Weapons at my disposal! Don't bring a Knife to a Gunfight with Bacteria!
I WAS RIGHT! Inside a day of my Treatment Plan, swelling reduced, pain reduced. By day 2
PAIN GONE, SWELLING GONE! 
The Bacteria
LOST, RE
WON! Those mother fuckers are
DEAD, DEAD, DEAD!Had I gone to a Dentista up here, just for him to
LOOK at my gums would have cost me $200 minimum. Then he probably would have recommended I have my last 6 Tooth Stubs left in my head yanked out and get Implants for probably $50K or more up here, which would buy him many nice vacations but impoverish me. lol.
These last 6 tooth stubs/caps are getting
"long in the tooth" as the saying goes, a couple of them are 4 years old, and the other 4 about 6 years old with no maintenance from a Dentista, so they will probably give out here at some point and I will need to have them pulled out too. So when I make my trip down to the lower 48 this summer, I probably will make another cross-border trip from Yuma to Los Algodones (spanish for "the dentists") and get some implants dropped in there to support a snap in set of dentures that hopefully will work better than the ones I got that sit on top of the gums.
I won't give up these last 6 teeth though until absolutely necessary. Hopefully, I can keep those nasty bacteria at bay a while longer with the pharmacopea.
RE