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I start out by opening my mouth wide to look into the mirror. I want to make sure everything is alright with my teeth, throat and tongue. Call me paranoid but I like to be sure...so I examine thoroughly. I check each tooth: I scrape my front teeth for plaque, I check out the spaces between my teeth (of course I never had braces, and the dentist pulled out a couple of my incisors to be sure I wasn't a vampire I guess). My wisdom teeth on the bottom have lots of cavities but the hygienist wasn't ready to have me get them drilled yet, oh my they do look bad, tsk tsk. I stick out my tongue and check out the color. I lift up my tongue, hmm interesting texture of veins there. I push the tendon under my tongue, funny that makes my tongue flop down! I do it again. I find a rough spot on one of my upper molars and inspect that, then check my bite. I check over all of my teeth again, opening wide before I'm satisfied.