Sincerely, it feels great except for the resultant headache. Four deadening shots and a major cleanup, and I spent yesterday face down in the bean dip, and today am energy-short and headachy, but I’m actually looking forward to Oct 3, when we get the other side. THis has been overdue, since I couldn’t find a good dentist, but now have one. In January, they’re going to do, we think, an implant.
Well, half the mouth is in great shape…
by CJ | Sep 16, 2016 | Journal | 6 comments
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no fun at all face down in the bean dip…..(I don’t care for bean dip, anyway).
The other day, I decided that it had been 3 weeks and that I could at least try to clean the back teeth with the WaterPik waterflosser. BIG mistake, as it apparently WASN’T healed all the way, yet. Maybe it is, and the resulting fountains of pink water were from the areas that hadn’t been flossed since the morning of the extraction.
I have to chew on the other side of my mouth, and have managed to bite a hole in the lining along the right side molars. It’ll heal, and then I’ll do it again, and the cycle goes anew.
I hope this next round of work goes better for you than yesterday’s. And of course, the implant in January, about the same time I’m supposed to get the bridge to replace the extracted tooth.
dental work takes it out of me as well
I had an attack of dentistry myself this past Tuesday — a scaling and a full set of x-rays. That’ll be $350, thank you very much. The hygienist was having to use a loaner scaling instrument until the one they’d ordered came in. It leaked. It’s a good thing I’m drip-dry and need no ironing. I did need a towel, though.
I’ve lost the lower back molar on the right and could have an implant if I could afford it. I have two problem jaw teeth on the other side that we’re not going to deal with unless they make us. The lower one is a crown which has come off multiple times because there’s not much tooth left underneath it. He squirts goop into the crown, pushes the crown back on and it stays put for another three or four years. This has happened twice now. The tooth directly above it has a smoldering abscess in amongst the roots. It flares, I knock the infection back down with a course or two of antibiotics, and life goes on. This has happened three times already in a five year period, once where that whole side of my cheek swelled up and got red. He’s drained it once. Says I really ought to have the tooth pulled but it calms back down, and it doesn’t hurt so we’ve been letting sleeping dogs lie.
Scaling was what I had done, left side, and I can say it feels good—and good is not an adjective I could have applied to that side from most of last year. 2 eye lens implants and a dental flare-up with a bridge—I swear, I’m beginning to think Bionic Man…
I spent half an hour Thursday getting a small gum infection cleaned out. It is, as you would expect, still tender, although not particularly painful at any point. (Topical anesthetic and novocaine on both sides of the tooth.)
I used to have anxiety attacks about the dentist, because she was TERRIBLE, and I hated her. It was so bad, they actually prescribed a sort of sedative or something for me which, of course, never actually kicked in while I was at the dentist- always afterward, when I had to do something important, like my homework, or once at a boy scout thing I went to for my brother (I fell asleep on the bench seat half way through and didn’t wake up till Mom told us it was time for the reception).
I finally ditched that dentist and went to Mom’s dentist (same office, just the other name on the plaque). The experience was so much better. He wasn’t rough, he didn’t try to make unnecessary conversation while he was working (I HATE that), and he did everything in his power to ensure nothing was painful- and if something did hurt, he was genuinely sorry and best yet- remedied it on the spot instead of telling you to “man up, I’m almost done”. He was so cool, I was able to even read while he worked. Pretty sure some of CJ’s books attended me in the dentist’s chair, lol. They’re always a great comfort.
The other dentist apparently moved on to work in San Quentin prison as their dental health practitioner. I’d love to see how some of those guys responded to her rough treatment.