dental work is one of the banes of my life, and I've said a lot about having to get work done, I have two more root canals scheduled and will need a special fluoride rinse and tray/paste since my teeth are just naturally bad. I brush twice a day and floss- plus sugar-free gum in between meals. doesn't make a difference and it bothers me. mostly I blame A) nature and B) shitty, fuck-it-I-don't-care habits of my youth. braces made them infinitely worse.

anyway, not much I can do about my teeth in the meantime. no herbal remedies or alternatives. just pulling or root canals. quite unpleasant.

that said, I adore my dentist and have lost my horror/breakdowns since gaining the knowledge that all those years of dental work were not fully numb and that's why they hurt so much- it is comforting knowing I wasn't just 'faking it' or 'being sensitive' AKA 'that's just air' 'stop being a baby' so on and so forth from the people working on my teeth while I twitched and cried like I could feel it. who'd have known. bitterness aside I'm happy with my new dentist. <3