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Oct. 13th, 2006 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyoreAm off to the dentist.
HELP! Wish me luck.
ETA: OK, I survived. Actually, it went better than I expected. After waiting outside the building for half an hour (the DN managed to lock the door being her when she opened up, and hence neither I nor the receptionist(!) could get in) I walked straight in and saw the Dentist. He took one look at the x-ray I handed him, gave me a pair of hideous sunglasses to wear, and poked around in my mouth for a while, looking grim.
Me: Um, so?
Him: How do you feel about root canal?
As it turns out, I'm avoiding root canal by getting both the wisdom tooth and the back molar pulled. Cheaper, (hopefully) less painful, less potential problems in the future, and the other probably wouldn't work anyway. *sigh* OTOH, it looks like being a hell of a lot cheaper than I was expecting.Plus, the dentist was pretty cute.
Moral of the story - Get your wisdom teeth out ASAP, before they can screw up the rest of your teeth. At birth, if they can manage it. It'll save you so much pain and hassle.
ETA: OK, I survived. Actually, it went better than I expected. After waiting outside the building for half an hour (the DN managed to lock the door being her when she opened up, and hence neither I nor the receptionist(!) could get in) I walked straight in and saw the Dentist. He took one look at the x-ray I handed him, gave me a pair of hideous sunglasses to wear, and poked around in my mouth for a while, looking grim.
Me: Um, so?
Him: How do you feel about root canal?
As it turns out, I'm avoiding root canal by getting both the wisdom tooth and the back molar pulled. Cheaper, (hopefully) less painful, less potential problems in the future, and the other probably wouldn't work anyway. *sigh* OTOH, it looks like being a hell of a lot cheaper than I was expecting.
Moral of the story - Get your wisdom teeth out ASAP, before they can screw up the rest of your teeth. At birth, if they can manage it. It'll save you so much pain and hassle.
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Date: 2006-10-14 04:28 am (UTC)Ouch, sending happy feelings your way over the pulled teeth. That sounds... very not fun.
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Date: 2006-10-18 08:05 am (UTC)Thanks for the happy feelings. It's getting to the point that I'm actually looking forward to going to the dentist, on the basis that short(ish) extreme pain is better than prolonged extreme pain.