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summary of oh i wish i'd looked after me teeth

Answer 1

The poem begins with a regret from the poet who wishes that she had cared for her teeth in childhood when she had been eating too many toffees and sweet sticky food. She was too careless and never listened to the instructions of her mother. She was too tempted by candies, lollies, sherbets and other sticky sweets. Her mother cautioned her time and again that a tooth is like a friend, and it should be looked after well. But the poet could not resist sweets. She tried to brush with up and down strokes, put lot of tooth paste on her teeth, but the damage was already done. Decay had given way to cavities and eventually to drillings and fillings. Now during adulthood, the poet regrets but nothing can change the condition of her teeth. Painful injections and visits to the dentist have become her routine. The poet feels so miserable and guilty over how she used to mock at her mothers ugly and false teeth. Now her condition is no different.

Answer 2

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✴ This poem is written by Pan Ayres. She is a contemporary writer, a great entertainer who writes and performs comic verse. She started writing poems and verses as a hobby and has appeared in every major TV show in the UK. She has published six books of poems, and cut seven record albums including a collection of 50 best known poems.


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The poet had a toothache and now she regrets that if she had looked after her teeth well , then should never suffer toothache. She could keep the cavity away from her teeth if she would have some precautions in eating toffees and all sugar coated sweets.


The poet wishes that she should have taken care of her teeth . She should not have thought about eating of a large and hard sweet , she would have spent her money on the eatables that might not cause harm to her teeth.

The poet here regrets that now she is suffering from toothache . She should have remained this to think when she, was busy in eating different types of candies, lollies and all sweets at the young stage. Because excessive eating of those eatables invited cavities to attack on her teeth.

Now the narrator thinks that she had never brushed her teeth well. If she had known about the importance of proper brushing she would never have suffered from toothache.

The poet says that if she had known that by eating sweets all the day and by not cleaning her teeth regularly, she was inviting cavities, caps and decay to her teeth, she would avoid all the sweets. Now she realises that she was facing the pain of injections and drills only because she had never looked after her teeth.

The poet says that it is all the result of her uncarefulness about the cleaning of her teeth, that made her to sit in the dentist's chair and staring at his face desperately . She does not like the sound of his drill machine which is used to fill the cavities of teeth.

The dentist told her that he would use two amalgum to fill his decay of teeth. Now the poet reminds that she used to laugh at her mother for her false teeth. But it seems that those false teeth were calling her. This is all of her uncleanliness of teeth.

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