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Toothy update
Jun. 19th, 2014 10:09 amWelp.
Verdict: I have a cavity.
(MY VERY FIRST CAVITY EVER WOO. I will name it George, and I will hug it and pet it and squeeze it…)
Because I am a very special snowflake, it may or may not be treatable in the normal way. I have a spot where I have an extra tooth -- really it’s an offshoot (from below the gums) of one of the regular teeth, but the end result is that I have the first premolar and the second premolar and then the extra tooth behind and straddling the gap, making a tight little triangle that is a bitch and a half to clean. And the cavity is in there, which on the one hand makes sense because it’s the likeliest spot for me to develop problems, but on the other hand means that it’s sort of hard to get to. He’s going to try to take care of it by cleaning and doing a filling (with no or limited anaesthetic options because injections are bad), but there is a minor possibility that the only real methods for dealing with it would be root canal (without anaesthesia ahahahano) or taking the tooth out entirely.
Fun times.
I have an appointment for the 30th -- and because my brain is weird, I felt all awkward about reassuring them that most of the time it wasn’t a problem, since they were worried about having me wait when it was hurting, and even with the confirmation of A Thing going on in there, I still felt like I was overreacting by coming in when it wasn’t at the point of hurting all the time -- and in the meantime I get to research dental treatment guidelines, whee.
Verdict: I have a cavity.
(MY VERY FIRST CAVITY EVER WOO. I will name it George, and I will hug it and pet it and squeeze it…)
Because I am a very special snowflake, it may or may not be treatable in the normal way. I have a spot where I have an extra tooth -- really it’s an offshoot (from below the gums) of one of the regular teeth, but the end result is that I have the first premolar and the second premolar and then the extra tooth behind and straddling the gap, making a tight little triangle that is a bitch and a half to clean. And the cavity is in there, which on the one hand makes sense because it’s the likeliest spot for me to develop problems, but on the other hand means that it’s sort of hard to get to. He’s going to try to take care of it by cleaning and doing a filling (with no or limited anaesthetic options because injections are bad), but there is a minor possibility that the only real methods for dealing with it would be root canal (without anaesthesia ahahahano) or taking the tooth out entirely.
Fun times.
I have an appointment for the 30th -- and because my brain is weird, I felt all awkward about reassuring them that most of the time it wasn’t a problem, since they were worried about having me wait when it was hurting, and even with the confirmation of A Thing going on in there, I still felt like I was overreacting by coming in when it wasn’t at the point of hurting all the time -- and in the meantime I get to research dental treatment guidelines, whee.