Your dentist (who has graciously worked you in because your toothache is making you seriously contemplate whether you really need the right side of your head)... takes one look at the side in question and says, "Yikes! How are you not screaming?"
Um, yeah. Not good.
I had no idea that I had anything wrong prior to last night, because I have a pretty high tolerance for pain. But apparently, something has been wrong for a very long time and it decided to get my attention. Turns out that the root canal / crown -- which, she says, are some of the best work she's seen -- mysteriously created a cavity that does not show up on x-rays or to normal examination. And this became extremely infected (no one knows how).
She kept offering me a script for pain killers when I was leaving, and I was like, "Oh, no, I'm fine. Ibuprofen will be enough." And about the time the deadening wore off and the right side of my face felt like a wrecking ball had been using it for practice, I realized why she was being so insistent. Of course, it was too late to call her for it then. I am so smart, sometimes. ugh.
Go eat something crunchy for me.
Posted by toni at November 17, 2004 12:10 AMT,
I feel your pain. LIterally. I am about to have a crown removed because they don't know what is under there! Nice, hunh? AND, I went in last week where they redid a cavity that I couldn't feel, and now? I can't eat on the right side of my mouth! Hmph. Feel better. Drink wine and knock yourself out!
Posted by: Alex at November 17, 2004 12:23 AMI'm going for a cleaning tomorrow morning. The last time he didn't find anything wrong. When my previous dentist told me I had a cavity.
Posted by: Mona at November 17, 2004 12:30 AMThat's nothing! I have a baby tooth (fused to my jaw) that's been bitching at me for the last 15 years. The last time I was there, my dentist recommended I go to an oral surgeon and have it cut out but it was hurting me so he removed the nerves. So now no need to cut it out, I'm waking up with bits of tooth in my mouth as it's slowly disintegrating! Oh joy! Good riddance, I say. (Thankfully, it doesn't hurt at all, not being alive) :>
Posted by: Anne at November 17, 2004 09:02 AMThat's nothing! I have a baby tooth (fused to my jaw) that's been bitching at me for the last 15 years. The last time I was there, my dentist recommended I go to an oral surgeon and have it cut out but it was hurting me so he removed the nerves. So now no need to cut it out, I'm waking up with bits of tooth in my mouth as it's slowly disintegrating! Oh joy! Good riddance, I say. (Thankfully, it doesn't hurt at all, not being alive) :>
Posted by: Anne at November 17, 2004 09:03 AMThat's nothing! I have a baby tooth (fused to my jaw) that's been bitching at me for the last 15 years. The last time I was there, my dentist recommended I go to an oral surgeon and have it cut out but it was hurting me so he removed the nerves. So now no need to cut it out, I'm waking up with bits of tooth in my mouth as it's slowly disintegrating! Oh joy! Good riddance, I say. (Thankfully, it doesn't hurt at all, not being alive) :>
Posted by: Anne at November 17, 2004 09:03 AMBeen there wayyyyy too many times. You have my sympathy!
-G
Posted by: Garrison Steelle at November 17, 2004 10:57 AMthat is so freakin hilarious. i can't believe he actually said that.
i have had the tooth ache thing so bad that i was willing to light my hand on fire just so the pain in my head would seem insignificant. so i feel you...
mine.. went about praising me to the high heavens..
you don't want to know how they fill my teeth now..
lemme only say that he takes out the pliers
cheerz
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