Freak accident
Picture it...3 a.m. Lyss gets up to take an Aleve (shoveling has left her achy). She decides to have a cracker with her Aleve, so as not to end up with that horrible burning feeling that sometimes occurs when one takes meds on an empty stomach. All is going well until CRUNCH! CRACK!
A tooth has split in half! (Said tooth, tooth #2, yet stays in her mouth).
Shit!
I have a complex dental history.....Easiest explanation- bad genes- my parents have terrible teeth, as do members of the extended family. And my mom says that we didn't have fluoridated water where I grew up either.
I have had 3 oral surgeries in the past year. Not my wisdom teeth (those came out the course of 3 surgeries during my college years, the details will be withheld as they are kind of gruesome- or, as one friend said, "thanks for not telling me the story of your wisdom teeth until after I had mine out or I would've been to scared to let anyone tough mine").
I digress.....I got an infection over Tooth #5 last December on a plane flight from Florida (something about the air pressure and a preexisting small crack...). There was the apico last January. When that didn't work and the infection came back I had to have an extraction in March. Then the first part of the implant surgery occurred in August.
That made a total of 3 teeth (beyond my wisdom teeth) extracted in the past 4 years. (The stories of the other 2 missing teeth shall remain for later). One of which is near enough to the front of my mouth that allows the gap to be glimpsed if I smile wide enough.
One of the big bosses at work joked that I am working on my' hockey player' look. (Which was funnier when I was one the pain meds).
The upside of this is that I have grown to love the staff at my new oral surgeon's office her in New England. And my mom found a new paint color for her bedroom wall (no joke. They have this fabulous lavender color in the waiting room).
Alas...now I will have to wait to see my dentist on Thursday to know what shall become of my latest oral oddity.
A tooth has split in half! (Said tooth, tooth #2, yet stays in her mouth).
Shit!
I have a complex dental history.....Easiest explanation- bad genes- my parents have terrible teeth, as do members of the extended family. And my mom says that we didn't have fluoridated water where I grew up either.
I have had 3 oral surgeries in the past year. Not my wisdom teeth (those came out the course of 3 surgeries during my college years, the details will be withheld as they are kind of gruesome- or, as one friend said, "thanks for not telling me the story of your wisdom teeth until after I had mine out or I would've been to scared to let anyone tough mine").
I digress.....I got an infection over Tooth #5 last December on a plane flight from Florida (something about the air pressure and a preexisting small crack...). There was the apico last January. When that didn't work and the infection came back I had to have an extraction in March. Then the first part of the implant surgery occurred in August.
That made a total of 3 teeth (beyond my wisdom teeth) extracted in the past 4 years. (The stories of the other 2 missing teeth shall remain for later). One of which is near enough to the front of my mouth that allows the gap to be glimpsed if I smile wide enough.
One of the big bosses at work joked that I am working on my' hockey player' look. (Which was funnier when I was one the pain meds).
The upside of this is that I have grown to love the staff at my new oral surgeon's office her in New England. And my mom found a new paint color for her bedroom wall (no joke. They have this fabulous lavender color in the waiting room).
Alas...now I will have to wait to see my dentist on Thursday to know what shall become of my latest oral oddity.
posted by Lyss | 10:44 PM
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You were i Florida and didn't call??? WAAAAHHH
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