Ow

and ew, too.

I have a somewhat different post today...

I will start at the beginning, way back when I was young. From what I've been told, I was sick to the point that I had a fever above a certain temperature that it can start to cause problems with dental development. As a result, my teeth have had way more problems than I care to remember, and it hasn't yet stopped.

Anyhoo, later on, when I was like elevenish, (not elvenish) I noticed one of my teeth, third from the back on the top left side, had a brownish tinge to it.

After showing my mom, and then the dentist, the dentist concluded that I would later on have problems with that tooth. (And he was right, just like when he said that three of my back teeth would need to have crowns, and that I would have my wisdom teeth removed at about 16.) I think my dentist was either a fortune teller, a really good dentist, or wanted money...

Either way, the tooth ended up having a few fillings, and about 6 months ago, one of them fell out...

Since then, the hole has gotten progressively bigger, and started to hurt a little. A few days ago, it began to get excruciatingly painful, to the point that I was on Tylenol all day yesterday, to no real avail, and had used almost a whole bottle of Anbesol (reg strength- never used before...). Last night, it was bad enough that Chris suggested we call a dentist this morning and get it pulled. Or something.

And that brings me to today. Woke up and called a dentist, they got me in for 10 a.m. and after a quick (and painful) test to see how the nerve ending was doing, I was given some options:

-root canal (expensive) and then within 6 months a crown (expensive)
-extraction, followed by either a bridge (expensive and can cause complications later), a partial denture (expensive and not very appealing), extraction and surgical replacement with a titanium tooth that would be embedded into the jaw bone (most expensive, would be in the city, would be in a while) or just extraction.

So far, I chose just extraction (ow!) and will decide if I want to bother with anything else later. (when we have insurance).

The 'risks' with leaving it as is now:

the teeth on either side might cave in (tilt), and the tooth that normally coincides with the one that was pulled, might come up. Of course, this will take a while to happen, and I have a long time to decide what I want to have done, if anything, when we get insurance. (I am sort of leaning towards titanium already).

Yeah. So that was my morning. how was yours?

I am now sitting here, the freezing starting to wear off, with gauze in my mouth.

Good times.

The good Doc gave me a prescription for antiinflammatories. Not sure if it is a painkiller, too, but will know soon.

My left eye was frozen, too, when she froze my mouth, so that was weird.

But I am going to go, the freezing is going away, and the pain is coming back.

ttyl. TAK