Tonight's Burning Question

[ithildin]

Do Immortals get cavities?

Hey, I'm just asking!

Comments

[dswdiane.livejournal.com]

Why on earth would they? They heal all injuries. As far as we know they don't get ill.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but I bet their teeth wear down. Maybe they get a new set every few hundred years. Teething is a BITCH.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

But is tooth decay an injury? [g] Maybe it doesn't heal till they get an abcess!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I hadn't thought of that!

[elychari.livejournal.com]

i'd *shudder* to think that if they did, then methos probably is wearing false teeth.

no, the alternative is unthinkable.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

ROTFL!

[slutbamwalla.livejournal.com]

I'd just assume that if one was knocked out or something, it would regenerate like any other injury.

[mackiedockie.livejournal.com]

They





They probably decay up to first death--that Immortal blackmailing Amanda in The Stone of Scone had appalling teeth! Or maybe some just get the short term scuzzis, like Thorne in Montana. Ech.

[black-op.livejournal.com]

Didn't one of the TV show characters lose a hand, and not have it grow back? They can lose them up until first death, then they regenerate... unless they detach in which case its a loss.

[dswdiane.livejournal.com]

Tooth decay is an illness caused by bacteria. We know they either don't get ill or heal very quickly. Why are you asking?

If you are writing a fic with a tooth ache, you can postulate slow healing from tooth decay. I don't know of anything in canon to contradict that.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

In all the years I've been a fan of Highlander - films and TV series - that is a question I have never pondered the answer to.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I have no reason for asking :) These odd thoughts just come upon me unawares.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

That'd make a hell of a funny short piece.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Xavier St. Cloud? I'm bad at names, but I think that's the guy. So if they had a tooth knocked out, they might have to do without.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

[snicker] I'm just special that way.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Heh! The Tooth Decay Challenge, or Four out of Five Dentists Recommend Immortality.

[dswdiane.livejournal.com]

Kay

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I just can't help myself :)

[dswdiane.livejournal.com]

Can't help what?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Asking silly questions with no real reason :)

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

Macleod could have his very own "apple a day" adverts.

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

Meh, that would for doctors not dentists *face!palm*

Crap, you've set a bunch of other random questions loose in my head now.. :)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service :)

[mischief5.livejournal.com]

*snort* No, you're just weird. What I want to know is this: Do female Immortals have periods? I mean, if the guys are shooting blanks, then the eggs would be infertile as well. But would they still have periods. I would really hate to be on the rag for two thousand years...

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

*I'M* weird!?!?!? Pot, kettle, black, dearie [g]

[mischief5.livejournal.com]

True, but *I* have a doctor's excuse. Neener, neener, neener...

(I'm just so happy to be back online that I'm giddy with it!) *snerkle*