Bummer! So sorry about your tooth. Be careful with jelly beans. Years ago I pulled a crown off eating jelly beans! I might have had several in my mouth at one time. Never again.

I too am sorry about your tooth, and will ditto the jelly bean warning. I'm not much of a candy person. Occasionally I'll enjoy chocolate. But several years ago Costco kept offering the Jelly Belly candies in what must have been half gallon containers and for some reason I kept picking up those. I wouldn't gorge on them, but would fill a very pretty candy jar and pop two or three in my mouth just about every time I'd pass through the kitchen. And this went on for months. My next years checkup, I'd developed a cavity under a crown. My dentist was trying to figure out what I may have done differently and all we could come up with was the sticky sugary jelly belly candy that he deemed especially hard on teeth.

I remember pulling a filling out when I was a kid--with Sugar Daddy, the hard caramel candy on a stick. My mom was not happy. I learned to hold it on the roof of my mouth, until it dissolved.

So sorry! I have encountered some rather “sturdy” Jordan Almonds. Of course it is possible that you might have had a fragile molar, just waiting to break. Have a friend who broke a tooth on a seeded dinner roll.

When my husband was getting chemo at the cancer center they had a lot of dishes of hard candy sitting around.it was supposed to help with nausea. One day I ate a piece and broke2 molars. At the time I couldn't be bothered to do anything about it. They never bothered me until this past January. All of a sudden they really hurt. I went to the dentist and had to get 2 root canals and 2 crowns. Much better now but it was expensive.

My dentist told me that the issues are there earlier on and just the constant pressure and working from chewing can cause them to break. I once broke my tooth when eating a banana...so it happens.

I broke a tooth on popcorn. Think sometimes there is a weakness there and it is bound to happen sooner or later.

I don't understand the Jordan almond attraction, the flavor is so bland. Yes, that candy shell is thick!

At my age, I avoid sticky or hard candy or anything else that may harm my aging teeth. It's so expensive to repair them, wow!

I don't know how old you are mama goose, but I am 62 and my teeth have had several fractures/breakage the past 10 years. All molars. One time on chewing gum. I never did have very strong teeth. The dentist said as you get older the teeth are prone to fractures/ breakage. Just wonderful part of old age. Sometimes I have the tooth patched and sometimes it is in a spot that doesn't bother me and don't.

I am 60, post-menopausal, and the broken molar has a filling, so it was probably already compromised. After I broke the tooth, I googled 'Jordan almonds and broken teeth'--until then I didn't know it was so common. I've been very lucky with my teeth, or maybe it's good genes rather than luck, but I will be more careful in the future.

I adore JA. I have wondered if they were teeth breakers, being so hard and all.

After Easter dinner I ask everyone to leave their dishes on the table as I had food storage to do before dishes. It was just us and my adult sons but they usually all take their dishes to the kitchen and scrape into the scrap container...anyway I was carrying Tims (grand) dish out later and was thinking he ate really well but upon closer look I noticed something on his fork..just sitting nicely on his fork was a molar, a baby molar. Tim didn't even know it came out. I checked his mouth and sure enough it was from him. I can't figure out why it was on the fork. Lol I know a few months ago the dentist said he had a few baby teeth ready to fall out. Were still laughing about it.

I broke a molar eating a french fry once. It came as a complete surprise.

Oh no that's no fun. I broke a molar a couple of years ago eating a cracklin. I try to remember not to eat hard things now. But it can happen when eating just about anything.

I broke one yrs back on a - turkey sandwich! just turkey and cheese on it.

in a more recent yr I broke one on a pretzel. yep, it comes with age and loss of vitamins, especially D (and maybe b12). Last fall I was found to be deficient in both of those. very deficient. Which my new doctor said could be the cause of a number of my physical problems - and my often foggie brain. they put me on massive doses of both for 3 months and now I take 5,000 IUs of D every day and 250 mg of B12 every other day. to be adjusted if needed when next tested.

Being deficient in D can open the body up to many nasty things - including cancer. so have your doctor test for it. I've heard now, that we should keep it at no lower that the mid level on the scale. A doctor on TV (he doesn't 'play' a doctor, he is an actual doctor) said that as we age we don't get enough in our food now with so much processed food and people tend to stay out of the sun more, so the levels are too low. I didn't pay much attention to this stuff until this new doctor found my levels so low. Heavens knows what my previous doctor was getting paid for... Now I spend a lot of time finding out about the vitamins and minerals needed by the body.

He also said that people should have them checked in their 50s at least and start taking supplements if needed to keep the levels up.

Yikes--reading about tooth damage even when eating softer foods is not encouraging. Thank you, desertsteph, I'll check into the vitamins. I've never liked taking pills, so I've been lax about taking OTC multiple vitamins.

mamapinky, that's funny about Tim's tooth, and that he hadn't even noticed it. My son once lost a baby tooth while we were camping in the desert--he pulled it out, then dropped it. Ever try searching for a tiny tooth in sand and rocks? He wrote the tooth troll* a nice note explaining why he couldn't put the tooth under his pillow, and received his reward. ;)

*My husband told our kids it was a troll who came to gather lost teeth, then made them into necklaces!

Jordon almonds are supposed to be health, wealth and happiness! Oh no!

I broke a tooth on popcorn and it led to a whole lot of dental work.

Good luck to you with your dental health.

Most folks over 50 have had many fillings in their teeth. The molars and bicuspids usually being the most often filled. The space in between the teeth is the spot that a cavity starts. To fill a spot between teeth the tooth must be opened from the biting surface and through to the spot in between. Usually the part of the tooth toward the cheek and tongue is not involved. Over time tooth may have repeated fillings. The remaining tooth structure tongue and cheek side is thinner and most likely to fracture if a hard bit of food impacts it. When teeth come apart on some thing soft it is most often because it fractured before on something hard. Younger people were taught better home care and many had fluoride treatments in office. Kids that have good home care have far fewer cavities then the over 50 people that needed fillings regularly.

Almonds and bagels are some of the hardest foods we eat. Rip the bagel into bite size pieces, better then biting in and pulling. If you eat almond slivers or slices you get the same health benefit, but not the stress of a hard whole almond

The first one I broke was while eating ice cream.

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Oh, sorry for everyone with tooth pain -- and those whopping dental bills!

DH and I used to buy plain almonds at Costco because they are tasty and they are supposed to be nutritious. Then I realized how *hard* they are. No more. (I think you're supposed to suck the sugar shell off the Easter almonds, then chew the nut -- but it's still darn hard.)

I have invested a couple of fortunes in my teeth -- multiple times for many of the teeth, from silver fillings, to gold inlays, to root canals, to crowns, to a bridge. No implants...yet.

marcopolo, I think you are correct--I had a handful of fillings before I reached adulthood, but only one of my three children had a filling by that time.

I wish the manufacturer of the candy had included the instructions to suck the sugar shell off before chewing. Or maybe it wouldn't have done any good--I spoke by phone with a friend today, who told me she almost broke a tooth when she bit into the candy I'd given her. I said, "But I left you a message about breaking my tooth." She said she didn't think about it when she put the candy in her mouth!

Worked as a chairside dental assistant 40 + years. I know how many teeth had fractures from almonds and NY style bagels. Sticky caramel type candy pulls lots of dental work apart.

It's so upsetting when something like that happens. I think our teeth are just not made to last a lifetime. I go to the dentist next week to get started on an implant. I am guessing it will cost $5-7,000. I hope I live long enough to make it worth the investment.

Eons ago, around Christmas, Macy’s used to carry Jordan almonds coated in silver and in gold shells. Those were even harder than regular JA. They used to be right by the Frango chocolates. After reading this thread, I remembered cracking a filling with a jawbreaker. Luckily, just the filling, not the tooth.

I broke a tooth one time eating that ribbon candy that is popular around Christmas time.

I went to the dentist last week. One my teeth is due for a crown. It is near to breaking. Why? Many of the snacks I now eat for my diabetes are murder on my teeth like popcorn and nuts. So I am between a rock and a hard place. Lol

This thread is a good reminder for us to watch it when chewing harder foods! dental care is expensive but worth it. dedtired, good luck with your implant.

Thanks, Socks. I am not looking forward to it at all. A pain in the mouth and a pain in the wallet.