Dental work and vacation

Those don’t normally go hand in hand but I have to get crowns seated anyway.  Tomorrow starts my vacation.  The first real “planned” vacation in quite a while.  What are we doing? Nothing!

We have a wedding and a party to attend but after that it’s free-for-all.

Raining and pouring

So last week I had two crown preps plus the full mouth debridement.  It’s quite lovely I tell you.  Well it’s been my experience that if I have teeth that are borderline “flare ups” and any work is done around them.  They will flare up.  That means they get aggravated to the point of needing to be worked on.  It’s like a chain reaction.  So here I sit, about to call the dentist again.  Likely to have an emergency visit for a root canal.  As ideal as that would be for pain, it involves going and sitting through the process.  Meh.

The day after: The Dentist

Well I survived.  The cleaning was actually worse than the crown prep.  Does this mean I’m about to be a king?  The ordeal left my mouth pretty sore and several bad tastes were introduced as well.  Though one of them I didn’t taste because the hygenist said “if you get this on your tongue you will be PISSED at me”.  The hygenist is great and honestly if not for him I’d have a hard time getting that work done.  He’s been doing it for 30 years, I guess he’s everything BUT an actual dentist.  Told me about his first trip in the army to Somalia.  He said he imagined he pulled about a thousand teeth in the first month he was there.  He gets the job done but he helps make you comfortable and cracks jokes most of the time.  Helps to take the mind off of bits of tooth flying out of your mouth.

I can’t wait to get all of this work done!

Dentist today

So today I go to the dentist.  I get a full mouth debridement because I didn’t followup from last  year.  WTF was I doing last year around this time of year.  Oh right, we were about to have our second son come along!  Anyhow, in addition I get two crown preps and ONE filling.  All in one visit.  This should be fun.

Well major dental work requires me to be on something to calm my nerves.  I already have anxiety problems.  A couple of years ago though I had an endoscopy on my esophogus.  I woke up in the middle of it.  NOT PLEASANT AT ALL.  So that further mortified me of having people stick their hands in my mouth.  I get pretty jittery when sitting in the dentist chair   So they prescribe me valium.  Seriously, without it it’s like trying to give a cat a bath.  Another reason I’m doing several things today.  Hit me while I’m drugged.