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dental rant
11 years ago
TL;DR: Brush your teeth everyday kids or you'll end up like me. I got away with it up until it hurt to brush too frequently because the plaque build up filled my cavities in and stopped the nerves from hurting every time I ate.
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Hmm... sitting here watching things on youtube I started to contemplate what the hell is with my breath lately. It's so bad that I can catch whiffs OF MY OWN BREATH. And it's been like that for like a week. So I poked around in my mouth to see if I had any new weak spots, because the last time I remember my breath being super bad was right before a catastrophic failure.
Sure enough, my last surviving back molar hurt to push on. (I actually have two but I'm pretty sure my jaw is busy absorbing the one that is completely shattered) So I guess I should start preparing for that tooth to go and pray that the nerve dies first so it won't become a "as soon as the dentist opens" emergency... like my last two. Going NOW is sorta out of the question.. because he'd want to save the tooth and refuse to fix it unless I give him like a thousand dollars to get a full exam and xrays and cleaning first. He made that part very apparent.
If the human body was built in a way to make home removal of molars even possible, I would opt for that over all the scraping and drilling and filling and coming back a few year later to re-drill and fill... I'm serious. Fillings are neat and all, if you have the money to do it. I really hate not having money for the things that everyone else takes for granted.
~~~ ~~~ ~~~
Hmm... sitting here watching things on youtube I started to contemplate what the hell is with my breath lately. It's so bad that I can catch whiffs OF MY OWN BREATH. And it's been like that for like a week. So I poked around in my mouth to see if I had any new weak spots, because the last time I remember my breath being super bad was right before a catastrophic failure.
Sure enough, my last surviving back molar hurt to push on. (I actually have two but I'm pretty sure my jaw is busy absorbing the one that is completely shattered) So I guess I should start preparing for that tooth to go and pray that the nerve dies first so it won't become a "as soon as the dentist opens" emergency... like my last two. Going NOW is sorta out of the question.. because he'd want to save the tooth and refuse to fix it unless I give him like a thousand dollars to get a full exam and xrays and cleaning first. He made that part very apparent.
If the human body was built in a way to make home removal of molars even possible, I would opt for that over all the scraping and drilling and filling and coming back a few year later to re-drill and fill... I'm serious. Fillings are neat and all, if you have the money to do it. I really hate not having money for the things that everyone else takes for granted.
