Jul

26

2010

This is why I avoided the dentist for so long

Saturday I went to the dentist, again. I had to go in and have my permanent crown put on. Since I was there and my other tooth has been acting up, I figured I’d get my other root canal done. Everything was going fine, my crown was put in and I had no problems with pain (thank the gods for whatever numbing agent they used lol). We got to the point where he wanted an xray done to make sure the root canal looked good. I went back to my chair, ready to finish up so I coul go home and eat (I hadn’t eaten since lunch on Friday and at this point it was like 11am). This is when he dropped the bomb on me: a dental instrument had broken off in one of my canals! WTF?! He saw my bug eyed expression and told me it shouldn’t be a problem, it happens, it will just become part of the filling. But just to make sure nothing else goes wrong with it, he wants to monitor it for a week, which meant he didn’t finish with the “post and temporary crown”. So I can’t eat on my right side until after the third, which is when I go in to finish this up.

As you can imagine I was and still am freaked out about the fact that I have a piece of titanium in the root of my tooth. I can’t even close my mouth all the way right now because I’m scared of basically crushing what’s left of my tooth. I checked it out in the car mirror (and the bathroom mirror every chance I get) to see what it looks like, let me tell you it is not pretty.

I just lost my train of thought since i had to go changed JJ’s diaper lol. I’ll end it here.

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