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Dental Heck

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

As men­tioned before, I’ve been going to the den­tist get­ting my teeth fixed up after slightly more than a few years of neglect¹. Mon­day started the next round of pain². A cou­ple more fill­ings on one side of my mouth and a sealer to try pre­vent­ing a cav­ity from form­ing on a back-tooth. The den­tist did a good job of numb­ing the area she’s worked on but even with the numb­ness it was still highly unpleasant.

I mean seri­ously the numb­ness only goes down so far but the vibra­tion from their tools pen­e­trates much fur­ther. Plus there’s the dis­tinctly nasty scent of burn­ing tooth from when they drill. *shud­der* And if that wasn’t bad enough, my sinuses have been act­ing up. Which lead to me feel­ing like I was chok­ing a cou­ple of times while the den­tist was work­ing inside my mouth. See they’ve got this mouth-spreader/suction device they shove in first but if you don’t keep your tongue in just the right place the suc­tion doesn’t work. And keep­ing your tongue in that exact spot gets tir­ing, so you move around a bit; mere moments later you’re choking.

On the bright side, I think I only have 2 more pun­ish­ments vis­its left to fill in cav­i­ties.  Also the den­tist office appears to have over-charged me on a pre­vi­ous visit, so I after all the fun I got to leave with­out whip­ping out the wal­let.  Yeah, I’m just skip­ping with joy and hap­pi­ness.  *sigh*

¹ What can I say, I hate going to the den­tist.
² When my den­tal insur­ance says they won’t pay any­more for the year, I have to start sched­ul­ing my suf­fer­ing for the next year. My pock­et­book and I can only stand so much mis­ery before call­ing it quits.

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