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
and yesterday culminated in the (semi-)atraumatic removal of said #21 (lower left, behind the incisors, in front of the molars, the bicuspid.
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.
yuck...Labels: requiem, resorption, tooth
posted by ChrisMoose @ 8:37 PM
2 Comments:
So, did you get anything special (besides a hole) for your rotten tooth????
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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