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What a Week!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I know, I know. It’s only Tues­day; how bad could it be? Well.…

Sun­day night while eat­ing din­ner, I bit down on some­thing. It felt hard and crunchy. A moment later I felt some­thing pok­ing the side of my tongue, kind of like I had some­thing stuck in between my teeth and my gums. I couldn’t get the offend­ing poky bit free with my tongue. I got up went into the bath­room, looked in the mir­ror and real­ized the crunchy bit was likely part of a tooth.

Mon­day, I tried mak­ing an appoint­ment to see a den­tist. No, not my den­tist. I hadn’t been to a den­tist in years as my teeth never both­ered me. I do brush and floss reg­u­larly, so I left the den­tal check­ups at the bot­tom of my pri­or­ity list. Part of the rea­son it was so far down my list is… frankly, I hate going to the den­tist. The most pleas­ant pos­si­ble out­come of going to the den­tist is being told you don’t have cav­i­ties and then you walk out with that weird uber smooth feel­ing to your teeth. Bah.

Tues­day, I hadn’t heard back from the dentist’s office. Yes­ter­day I’d sub­mit­ted a request for an appoint­ment via their web­site. But since I hadn’t heard any­thing and I was tired of my busted tooth pok­ing my tongue, I called them. I was able to get myself an after­noon appoint­ment and headed over at the appro­pri­ate time. Oh and about an hour before I started over to their office; snow in large quan­ti­ties started to fall. [INSERT CURSING HERE] I got over to their office in plenty of time and started fill­ing out the paper­work. All the staff at the office were unfail­ing polite and help­ful but it didn’t make me feel much bet­ter about being there. After a short wait, I was taken into the back and had my teeth exam­ined by a den­tal hygienist.

I have to say things have changed in the years since I’ve been to a den­tist. Now the x-ray machine is dig­i­tal and they have a com­puter mon­i­tor attached to the patient’s chair to dis­play the x-ray. Also they’ve got a dig­i­tal cam­era about the size of a ball­point pen used to take pho­tos of your teeth. Side note: eeeew, cav­i­ties and bro­ken teeth look ter­ri­ble blown up in full color on com­puter mon­i­tors. They also have a new diag­nos­tic tool which mea­sures the den­sity of the tooth to deter­mine if there’s a cav­ity (and to tell if the cav­ity is bad enough to need fixing).

The end result of all this new tech­nol­ogy is I got to see how bad my teeth are. How bad are they? Well, I’ll be get­ting 3 fill­ings and a crown. Wheee!

*sob, sob*

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