Why do my subconscious nightmares always involve losing my teeth during high-stakes presentations?

I have been keeping a dream journal for three months now, and I’ve noticed a frustratingly specific trend. Whenever I am stressed about a deadline, I find myself in the middle of a massive corporate keynote, only to realize my teeth are crumbling into my palm like dry chalk. It is vivid, humiliating, and honestly quite terrifying. I know the common dream interpretation lore says this is about 'powerlessness' or 'loss of control,' but that feels a bit too cliché for my taste. Has anyone here found a way to actually shift the narrative of these recurring stress dreams, or are we all just destined to be toothless presenters in our subconscious lives? I am curious if those of you who practice lucid dreaming have managed to hijack these scenarios, or if the dream-logic is simply too overwhelming to override once the molar starts sliding out. Does anyone else get stuck in these loops, or is my brain just uniquely obsessed with dental hygiene in public spaces?