Molar
First of all, its 92 degrees in my office. I went out to the dollar store at lunch today and bought a thermometer.
Anyway, I was eating an apple today and a piece (small though it may be) of an OLD silver filling came out of my bottom left molar. Those who know me understand that I have this aversion, fear, or laziness about going to the dentist. About a month or so ago the same tooth was experiencing the a similar problem, another piece of the filling was moving around kind of causing a little bit of discomfort, but thanks to a couple of sticks of gum, that part of the filling came right out.
The thing about going to the dentist with me is that I always have a bad experience. The last trip to the dentist that I had consisted of him, while replacing a filling (come to think of it the same one I'm having a problem with now) having a heated argument with the assistant, about a mistake that she had made on a previous patient that caused them to have to pull that persons tooth.
The time before that, I was having my teeth cleaned and the woman cleaning them, lost a fake fingernail in my mouth, that had come through her gloved finger and landed under my tongue.
This current problem is a bit worrisome because a-the long holiday weekend is coming up and the last thing I need is to have a dental emergency on X-mas eve in the middle of a transit strike b-I have a trip to Rio in a couple of weeks and with my luck I'll be doubled over in mouth pain the entire time I'm there, and c- I have really crappy dental insurance, and this just doesn't seem like on of those problems that came be fixed with Bubble Yum.
Anyway, I was eating an apple today and a piece (small though it may be) of an OLD silver filling came out of my bottom left molar. Those who know me understand that I have this aversion, fear, or laziness about going to the dentist. About a month or so ago the same tooth was experiencing the a similar problem, another piece of the filling was moving around kind of causing a little bit of discomfort, but thanks to a couple of sticks of gum, that part of the filling came right out.
The thing about going to the dentist with me is that I always have a bad experience. The last trip to the dentist that I had consisted of him, while replacing a filling (come to think of it the same one I'm having a problem with now) having a heated argument with the assistant, about a mistake that she had made on a previous patient that caused them to have to pull that persons tooth.
The time before that, I was having my teeth cleaned and the woman cleaning them, lost a fake fingernail in my mouth, that had come through her gloved finger and landed under my tongue.
This current problem is a bit worrisome because a-the long holiday weekend is coming up and the last thing I need is to have a dental emergency on X-mas eve in the middle of a transit strike b-I have a trip to Rio in a couple of weeks and with my luck I'll be doubled over in mouth pain the entire time I'm there, and c- I have really crappy dental insurance, and this just doesn't seem like on of those problems that came be fixed with Bubble Yum.
posted by Michael at 4:32 PM
4 Comments:
oh man, feeling your pain... not literally. i didn't know about the finger nail story, EW.
my dentist is really good... but i'm sure since you broke that tooth the transit strike will now last until jan 12th.
don't get me started on dental stories. I think the "we'll have to send this in for a biobsy," ..."oh, it's a piece from a bone graft that we did (which I knew nothing about since I was put under with 5 valiums)" story says it all. I guess that's what I get for going to a dentist based on his looks.
I forgot about that one Matt.
P.S. its 87 degrees in here at 10:00am...I can't breathe
dr. susan stern, 69 West 9th St., 212 477-0430, loverly jewish dr. who cured me of an insane fear of dentists 10 years ago...i won't even go into my childhood dentist stories...but let's just say i never even knew what novocain was until adulthood.
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