Dental Saga, part 2
Oct. 27th, 2011 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexSummary: things are basically OK. Just complicated and continuing.
Things had been going along just fine - well, except for one small thing - until about 2PM today when the temporary crown popped off. Oops. I was already scheduled to see the dentist at 5 so I went in at the appointed time.
Examination showed that the gum, although properly healed from the first surgery, was in fact still in a position to interfere with a permanent crown, which means I need serious gum surgery. Of course, the surgeon only works one day a week and is booked pretty solid. On the other hand, the desk people assure me that people cancel appointments for gum surgery all the time. I wonder why. So maybe I'll get in sooner than the presently planned three weeks.
During the three weeks I'm still wearing a temp crown and can't chew at all on the left side because the temp crown doesn't sit properly either. In fact the first attempt to put it on resulted in the damned thing popping off immediately, which was really annoying and now I'm twitchy about it popping off again.
Speaking of joys, that little thing I mentioned? Yeah, um, I chipped another tooth. The dentist looked at it and pronounced it basically sound, but once we're done with the current saga we'll start on that one. Can you tell how excited I am?
Sigh. It's my own fault. As a child and teenager I was crap at caring for my teeth and had untreated reflux pretty much all the time. As a result I have a lot of large fillings. Considering the fillings are supposed to have a lifetime of around 25 years it's somewhat impressive that they've lasted this long and I didn't have problems earlier. It's just that sometimes I want to reach back in time and talk some sense to younger me.
Things had been going along just fine - well, except for one small thing - until about 2PM today when the temporary crown popped off. Oops. I was already scheduled to see the dentist at 5 so I went in at the appointed time.
Examination showed that the gum, although properly healed from the first surgery, was in fact still in a position to interfere with a permanent crown, which means I need serious gum surgery. Of course, the surgeon only works one day a week and is booked pretty solid. On the other hand, the desk people assure me that people cancel appointments for gum surgery all the time. I wonder why. So maybe I'll get in sooner than the presently planned three weeks.
During the three weeks I'm still wearing a temp crown and can't chew at all on the left side because the temp crown doesn't sit properly either. In fact the first attempt to put it on resulted in the damned thing popping off immediately, which was really annoying and now I'm twitchy about it popping off again.
Speaking of joys, that little thing I mentioned? Yeah, um, I chipped another tooth. The dentist looked at it and pronounced it basically sound, but once we're done with the current saga we'll start on that one. Can you tell how excited I am?
Sigh. It's my own fault. As a child and teenager I was crap at caring for my teeth and had untreated reflux pretty much all the time. As a result I have a lot of large fillings. Considering the fillings are supposed to have a lifetime of around 25 years it's somewhat impressive that they've lasted this long and I didn't have problems earlier. It's just that sometimes I want to reach back in time and talk some sense to younger me.
