the RATS of moose

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Requiem for a Tooth

It is sad, but true... #21 committed suicide... the prolonged, drawn-out kind. Heaven knows how long this has been going on.... maybe years.... It started as a small black spot a year ago
It all started with a little black spot...
and yesterday culminated in the (semi-)atraumatic removal of said #21 (lower left, behind the incisors, in front of the molars, the bicuspid.
The offending member.. Notice the size of the hole... almost the diameter of the whole tooth. It's a wonder it all came out in one piece..

I asked the nice lady at the front desk to call over to the hospital across the parking lot and ask the chaplin to come over to do a requiem for the tooth.

She thought I was kidding.

I now resemble trailer park trash of the unhealthy kind.
TOOTHLESS!! yuck...

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2 Comments:

At 4:58 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, did you get anything special (besides a hole) for your rotten tooth????

 
At 8:58 PM, Blogger Flaurella said...

OMG. You just gave me heart palpitations. A couple of months ago, I paid $1080 to have a molar with a cracked root pulled under general ansthesia. Some years back, I had paid close to 2K for root canals, a crown and periodontal work on said tooth and I just couldn't bear any more torture. Knock me OUT!

Can't they put in a temp bridge in about 6 weeks? At least you wouldn't be toothless for Christ-Moose.

Hang in there. Been there, read the book, bought the T-shirt. [shudder::sigh]

 

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