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Got my tooth, temporarily, fixed.
I needed a new crown on the bottom, aft-most molar on the starboard side.
This tooth has been a bane for years.
It was the first tooth I'd ever needed a filling in.
The first tooth I'd lost a filling from.
The only tooth that needed a second filling.
Now.
The only tooth in my skull that's needed a crown.
The temp crown is mounted while the permanent version is being fabricated.
Should be installed in two weeks.
Despite the panic attacks, the dentist and his assistant were awesome!
He warned that, sometimes, once they started they'd find a root-canal would be needed.
We didn't end up there, but I told him that if we needed a root-canal on that tooth we'd revert to the Spanish and say, "extraction!"
He started to object and I said, this damned tooth has caused enough BS and this is its last chance!
After being turned off by two dental clinics, who wanted me to pay for gum care before they extracted or even treated me for the infected broken tooth, I went to 'Affordable Dentures' locally and got the damned thing removed for under $350. Ah, a matching missing tooth to match the other non-existent tooth on the other side of my mouth.
ReplyDeleteWhat a relief.
So if your painless dentist doesn't want to extract, see if there's an 'Affordable Dentures' clinic in your area.
If I knew when I was 18 what I know now I would have become a Dentist. It's one of the few truly stable careers left. Software Engineering is a great hobby but it quit being a good career path years ago.
ReplyDelete"You'll be a Dentist! You have a talent for causing things pain!"
-swj