my life has been very full lately. so full, in fact, that i haven't had a bit of time to devote to my volunteer job with Groovera. :( -- very frowny face!
the last thing to come up is i have a cracked tooth. a part of it came apart about three years ago, so my dentist put a crown on it and it worked fine. then it was giving me trouble so she did a root canal and it worked fine. now it appears to have a crack up into the root which means it needs to come out. the oral surgeon mentioned today that a tooth which has had a root canal can be brittle, and that must have contributed to the crack. it's been soooo uncomfortable that i just want it out. and so wednesday my wish will be granted. it's a fairly minor tooth (#4 -- upper right, toward the back) so he's just going to deaden it rather than do the whole iv/sedation thing. thank god.
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Are they going to put in a fakey? Or are you just going to have extra breathing space?
ReplyDeleteextra breathing space for now. apparently there's some question as to the integrity of the surrounding bone, so we'll let things heal and i can always decide later if i want to go through the implantation surgery and screwing in a fake one ... to the tune of at least $3000.
ReplyDeleteYikes! That's a lot. What about some kind of tooth-retainer? Seems like there was a kid I knew in high school who didn't have a couple of his front teeth, but he had a retainer that slotted some fake ones in.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's too much of a bother?
a retainer? no -- i don't want to mess with that. it's bad enough my dentist expects me to wear this night guard to keep from gnashing my teeth to bits.
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