There's Never A Tooth Fairy Around When You Need One
You know when the Dentist says, "It's just going to be a deep cleaning"? Don't believe it. OK OK, it's my fault for letting it go so long, but I have this tooth.....
It's way in the back, in the lower right side of my jaw. It was in bad shape, when they root canalled it, and capped it about 2 years ago, and I recall the Dentist at that time DID say, that there wasn't much tooth there, and it probably wouldn't last, so..... I wasn't surprised when the cap came off. I should have had it glued back in, but I didn't, and so that tooth got all abscessed, and...... well, I'll spare you the gory specifics. The point is, it had to come out.
So, in addition to the Novocain for the deep cleaning, I had the pleasure of an EXTRA injection, and of course, since the tooth was so far back in my mouth, and there wasn't much tooth to grab..... Well, let's just say, it wasn't easy. When they give you 3 injections, and a prescription for Vicoden painkillers afterwards, you can tell it wasn't a simple "Brush, Rinse, and Spit".
Anywaaaaaaay, there is some good news, sort of. I still have a tooth opposing the removed one in my upper jaw, so even though the removal can't be seen, if I don't put something in there, the upper tooth won't have anything to oppose it, and the forces of gravity will eventually cause it to fall out. Fun huh? So they start telling me about this wired up "appliance" that they can make, which I have to remove when I eat, and every night to rinse it off..... Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah...... Baloney.
I just got done doing the LASIK, so I wouldn't have to screw around with the contact lenses every day anymore, and now they want to make me do this every day. Buzzzzzzzzzz wrong answer, so I'm going with the better (ie: more expensive) method of an Implant! Have you heard of this? They implant a titanium screw into your jaw, and then the jawbone fuses with the porous metal of the screw, becoming permanent, and then they can "clamp" a fake tooth onto the top of the screw. No removal, no rinsing, no nothing. Permanent. So I'm going to go that route.
Besides, it should provide some "interesting" future SOL postings, don't you think? Wish me luck :-)
It's way in the back, in the lower right side of my jaw. It was in bad shape, when they root canalled it, and capped it about 2 years ago, and I recall the Dentist at that time DID say, that there wasn't much tooth there, and it probably wouldn't last, so..... I wasn't surprised when the cap came off. I should have had it glued back in, but I didn't, and so that tooth got all abscessed, and...... well, I'll spare you the gory specifics. The point is, it had to come out.
So, in addition to the Novocain for the deep cleaning, I had the pleasure of an EXTRA injection, and of course, since the tooth was so far back in my mouth, and there wasn't much tooth to grab..... Well, let's just say, it wasn't easy. When they give you 3 injections, and a prescription for Vicoden painkillers afterwards, you can tell it wasn't a simple "Brush, Rinse, and Spit".
Anywaaaaaaay, there is some good news, sort of. I still have a tooth opposing the removed one in my upper jaw, so even though the removal can't be seen, if I don't put something in there, the upper tooth won't have anything to oppose it, and the forces of gravity will eventually cause it to fall out. Fun huh? So they start telling me about this wired up "appliance" that they can make, which I have to remove when I eat, and every night to rinse it off..... Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah...... Baloney.
I just got done doing the LASIK, so I wouldn't have to screw around with the contact lenses every day anymore, and now they want to make me do this every day. Buzzzzzzzzzz wrong answer, so I'm going with the better (ie: more expensive) method of an Implant! Have you heard of this? They implant a titanium screw into your jaw, and then the jawbone fuses with the porous metal of the screw, becoming permanent, and then they can "clamp" a fake tooth onto the top of the screw. No removal, no rinsing, no nothing. Permanent. So I'm going to go that route.
Besides, it should provide some "interesting" future SOL postings, don't you think? Wish me luck :-)
posted by TomH | 9:52 AM
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