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Non-Music Shit / Re: dentist tomorrow...
« on: January 12, 2013, 05:14:10 PM »
Reviving the dentist thread.
I brush, floss, and go to the dentist.. but due to a combo of braces in my youth and shitty genetics, my 30s have been all about spending approximately 1k out of pocket each year to get shit fixed. (Yes, I have decent dental insurance.. but major work is only covered at 50%.. and that shit's EXPENSIVE)
Anyway, a couple of months ago I was chewing gum on my 'good side' and felt something 'pop'. Couldn't figure out which tooth it was, so I assumed it was likely one of the many on the list for repairs. I called my dentist and made arrangements to get the work done (I was hoping to wait until January when my benefits would roll over, so I didn't have to pay a bunch of out pocket). Anyway, they looked at the teeth and xrays and didn't see anything obvious, so we just assumed that an old filling was loose. Since one of my teeth was considered high priority for a crown, I had that one done.
I think a week after I had the work done, the temporary crown popped off (this is the second fucking time a temp crown has popped off. Frustrating and painful) went back in, had it put back on and then waited until it was time to get my permanent crown (Dec 24th).
On Friday the 22nd, I went to a bar and saw a couple of bands and then stopped at Nations for some fries . On the car ride home, I was eating a french fry and suddenly felt something hard in my mouth (heh). I immediately assumed it was the temp crown and spit it out. Checked my tooth with my tongue, but the temp crown was still there. Checked around a little more with my tongue, and found that a fucking PERMANENT CROWN had fallen off. I was drunk, in shock, and freaking out while waiting for the pain to kick in.
Dentist told me to try and reattach the thing myself. Dave went out and got the glue, and I decided to try attaching in the morning. Woke up, tried swishing around some mouthwash (which shot pain through my face). Tried touching the crown to the tooth, and got another shot of pain through my face. Called the dentist again, and she told me to find an emergency dentist. Found one. He took xrays, told me i needed a root canal, and then numbed my mouth, reattached the tooth, and told me to prepare for the pain.
Christmas eve, went to my regular dentist to get my permanent crown put on. By then the stress of work and teeth had kicked my TMJ into overdrive, and my jaw was completely out of alignment (to the point where my teeth don't connect). He put the crown on the other tooth, and told me we needed to wait to do the root canal (because of the TMJ and recent work that had already been done) and scheduled a consult for a week later.
Meanwhile, my face is swollen and i can no longer eat on my 'good side'.
Consult happened, and the TMJ had gotten worse so I was advised to wait a little longer.
Last week I gave up and called them to schedule the root canal. The pain is constant (shooting up one side of my face to my ear and neck). My face is swollen. I can only chew on one side, and the past couple days it has gotten to the point where chewing makes my jaw hurt so much that soup is really the only answer.
Looking forward to next week when the dentist I hate the most (I've bitten her assistant in the past, so now she props my mouth open with a piece of rubber) is going to have my already sensitive jaw propped open for 3 hours, so she can do incredibly painful things to the tooth in the furthest back corner of my mouth.
The end.
I brush, floss, and go to the dentist.. but due to a combo of braces in my youth and shitty genetics, my 30s have been all about spending approximately 1k out of pocket each year to get shit fixed. (Yes, I have decent dental insurance.. but major work is only covered at 50%.. and that shit's EXPENSIVE)
Anyway, a couple of months ago I was chewing gum on my 'good side' and felt something 'pop'. Couldn't figure out which tooth it was, so I assumed it was likely one of the many on the list for repairs. I called my dentist and made arrangements to get the work done (I was hoping to wait until January when my benefits would roll over, so I didn't have to pay a bunch of out pocket). Anyway, they looked at the teeth and xrays and didn't see anything obvious, so we just assumed that an old filling was loose. Since one of my teeth was considered high priority for a crown, I had that one done.
I think a week after I had the work done, the temporary crown popped off (this is the second fucking time a temp crown has popped off. Frustrating and painful) went back in, had it put back on and then waited until it was time to get my permanent crown (Dec 24th).
On Friday the 22nd, I went to a bar and saw a couple of bands and then stopped at Nations for some fries . On the car ride home, I was eating a french fry and suddenly felt something hard in my mouth (heh). I immediately assumed it was the temp crown and spit it out. Checked my tooth with my tongue, but the temp crown was still there. Checked around a little more with my tongue, and found that a fucking PERMANENT CROWN had fallen off. I was drunk, in shock, and freaking out while waiting for the pain to kick in.
Dentist told me to try and reattach the thing myself. Dave went out and got the glue, and I decided to try attaching in the morning. Woke up, tried swishing around some mouthwash (which shot pain through my face). Tried touching the crown to the tooth, and got another shot of pain through my face. Called the dentist again, and she told me to find an emergency dentist. Found one. He took xrays, told me i needed a root canal, and then numbed my mouth, reattached the tooth, and told me to prepare for the pain.
Christmas eve, went to my regular dentist to get my permanent crown put on. By then the stress of work and teeth had kicked my TMJ into overdrive, and my jaw was completely out of alignment (to the point where my teeth don't connect). He put the crown on the other tooth, and told me we needed to wait to do the root canal (because of the TMJ and recent work that had already been done) and scheduled a consult for a week later.
Meanwhile, my face is swollen and i can no longer eat on my 'good side'.
Consult happened, and the TMJ had gotten worse so I was advised to wait a little longer.
Last week I gave up and called them to schedule the root canal. The pain is constant (shooting up one side of my face to my ear and neck). My face is swollen. I can only chew on one side, and the past couple days it has gotten to the point where chewing makes my jaw hurt so much that soup is really the only answer.
Looking forward to next week when the dentist I hate the most (I've bitten her assistant in the past, so now she props my mouth open with a piece of rubber) is going to have my already sensitive jaw propped open for 3 hours, so she can do incredibly painful things to the tooth in the furthest back corner of my mouth.
The end.
