Tag: dental trauma
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Teeth, SSF, etc.
For whatever reason, I recently went back and read Air in the Paragraph #5. (I need a better place for these to live, especially since Scribd has turned into a paid-service scam. I’ve temporarily put it here.) A lot of my writing from 1996 is pretty cringe-inducing, but I always liked this particular issue of…
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The Wisdom Tooth Story
My friend Marc Broude is in the middle of impacted wisdom tooth drama, sitting in bed on painkillers while everyone replies to his post on facebook with their own tales of dental horror. My story is too big for a little box, so I thought I’d type it out here. When I got to Seattle…
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Dental trauma #863
Happy New Year. I have been home for a few days. I’m still not 100% unpacked. Maybe today. I had to go to the dentist on Saturday morning for the next step in the latest dental trauma. They are replacing the crown that came off while I was in Mexico. The problem was getting the…
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Hello from Mexico
I’m writing from a hotel room in Ixtapa, Mexico, where I’ve been hanging out for almost a week. We flew down last Saturday, and fly back on Sunday. This has been our first real vacation since our honeymoon in the Bahamas in 2007, except for long weekends, trips back to the Midwest for holidays, and…
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Dental hell
I have a few seconds for a quick update. I wish I had time to write more in here, but my time seems to be vanishing lately. I have been in dental hell since last week. They ground down two of my teeth in preparation for crowns, took impressions to send off to the lab,…
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Dental torture #9343
The dental visit yesterday was pure medieval torture. To be fair, the new dentist was very careful, and did good work. But I got two teeth ground down for crowns, and temps slapped on there until next week. The grinding part is brutal, but the temp crowns are the bad part. They’re roughly like the…
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WELL WHY DONT YOU BRUSH YOUR TEETH
I’ve had many horrible dental procedures over the years. I’ve had crowns, titanium posts screwed into my jaw, root canals, redone root canals, a lasered root canal with no anesthesia, impacted wisdom teeth extracted with only a local, a wisdom tooth that broke and the roots got stuck, necessitating the incompetent dentist (that looked exactly…
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The 89 Playlist
Last week, in a fit of nostalgia/stupidity, I decided to make a playlist in iTunes consisting solely of music I would have listened to in the summer of 1989. I use iTunes for music while I’m sitting here at my desk working, and also use it for my iPod for in the car or when…
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On the firing of a dentist
Tuesday night, right before I left work, I broke a filling in one of my molars. It’s the third tooth up from the back, on the bottom, and it has a silver (or silver-color) filling that’s sort of bowtie-shaped on the top of the circular tooth. It has always bugged me since I got it,…
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Journey of major dental restoration
I had some dental work done yesterday. Nothing serious, just two fillings, one that was very minor, both were re-dos of older fillings. I started this journey of major dental restoration ten years ago, almost to the day, and I’m now finding that some of those fillings are at the end of their lifespan. I…