i have not been to a dentist in probably 10 years

it won't be. root canal is for decay, usually, no?

oy valium

i actually am in possession of some valium but valium is no vicodin.

prague is apparently a top destination for cheap dental work too - by best friend and her husband took a 'dentistry' holiday their awhile back.

i love how everybody's known all about these dentist holidays and i never had a clue

right? i love multitasking! i should have been on this.

its like the old days when women went to some alpine spa in europe to have a little work done. that always sounded like fun to me.

it won't be. root canal is for decay, usually, no?

not always they can also be done for cracked teeth and when i had a tooth knocked out i had to have a double root canal done because of the infection.

also tza you may not want to read this but i had to have the procedure done w/o any anaesthetic becuase the infection made it ineffective and it was, by a really wide margin, the most painful moment in my life

i do not think it is infected. that is why i am getting it taken care of NOW.

way to turn it back into a nightmare thread lamp eugh

omg lamp :(

yeah the valium is probably not worth the price of the sedation dentist. My guy stopped what he was doing with me once to go bid on a $450,000 dining table + chairs on ebay.

As it turns out, I have gum disease and need $400 worth of scaling. : (

were your gums bleeding?

(are)

dear presidetn obama,
pls to give me healthcare soon.
<3,tza

xpost: no, it's not that bad yet, but there's plaque under my gum line.

tbh i have not been to a dentist in a long time and i'm scared they're going to tell me my whole mouth needs to be replaced for the sum of $569,399.45

me too- hence prague dreams of when i'm rich.

if you pay upfront they might take off $99.45

o-rnaldo bama

is the tooth/filling old enough that you might have had a root canal and forgotten? it is unusual, although not unheard of, for teeth that are still alive to break. once you have the RC, that's when they start getting brittle.

I have had three teeth break, all had RCs. now I have nightmares about it.

the nyu college of dentistry might be cheaper than a regular dentist

I have had one root canal. It was totally painless and I got no painkillers for it afterward.

Coincidentally, I had to visit the dentist this morning. She wanted to get a better xray of the area under my gold tooth. There's a dark spot under the roots. She said it could be scar tissue from the root canal (best case) or a cyst or an abscess. I had the root canal 4 years ago, so I'm hoping it's scar tissue. If it gets worse, they may have to redo the root canal or if it gets really bad, operate. For the time being, she's just going to xray it once a year.

i wish this would allow me to get an awesome grill or something.

anyway, he says the filling broke, and then broke the tooth. he thought we might be able to do an onlay, which is slightly cheaper than a crown, but after looking at x-ray said i should put a new filling in or get a crown. since a crown lasts longer and i'm not really feeling too great about weird fillings, i am getting a crown. he drilled out the old filling and put on a temp crown for now. gotta get the rest done in a series of visits (impressions, then after the crown is made, the application).
ugh.
so much $$$.

damn im gonna floss hard 2nite

on the lol side of things, this dentist likes his ipod and was playing wilco while drilling away at my tooth, and asked me about my musical tastes. he was pretty nice. he also said if i have like, a decent portion paid by the time we finish this process i can do the rest in monthly installments.

damn im gonna floss hard 2nite

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it was also weird watching it all unfold in reflection on the dude's glasses. i don't remember that from before, but i was very relieved that they didn't have any of those stressed cat 'hang in there' posters on the ceiling.

omg the jaw pain today ;(

:( drugs?

tza take ibuprofen (not acetaminophen)

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i hope this is a fucking joke.

nope.

jesus fuck

http://www.movie-blast.com/images/steve-martin/little-shop-of-horrors.jpg

took some ibuprofen. the whole right side of my face hurts (like the upper jaw, too). is this normal? probably, and i am just being whiney.

Tee minus two hours! Got my valiums, got my vikes.

i want vikes!

i saw hottie dentist and hottie dental assistant again yesterday. i think i'll be going to the dentist a lot more often.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j278/oilyrags/toofiescropped.jpg

pix or it didn't happen

eeeeeeeee

my temp crown fell off!
i left my dentist a message but i don't know what to do.

i don't go to the dentist often, but i have been blessed witha near-perfect mouth-- for my entire life, i've brushed once a day, i've never flossed, and yet i've never had a cavity and my teeth are straight. except for the horrors of my impacted wisdom teeth (i looked like a woodland animal cartoon for a week), no problems. ever.

so weird.

Trust me, it's never too late to start having problems. I was the same for many years until one day I woke up with nasty intermittent pain in a back molar. The tooth was a mess of rot; when I got to a dentist, he took an impression, sawed it off and I was root canal'd in a hour, gold toof'd in a few days.

i just got back from a check up and everything is perfect.

Does anyone here use a soniccare? pp bought me one in dec (by request) and i cant keep that thing in my mouth for more than 10 seconds because it tickles so much. Its hard to brush your teeth while you are laughing.

wtf why has dentist not returned my call about temporary crown falling offage!?

my housemate once marched into his dentist's and demanded his broken tooth be fixed despite the fact that he had no money or insurance coverage.

it worked an' all.

my new toothbrush tickles the sides of my tongue. it's a little distracting but i've learned to combat it by adopting a 'dog with head out the car window' expression while brushing. now my girlfriend can't watch me brush my teeth without laughing, but that's her problem i guess.

they called and said i could come in today and have the temp put back on, or i could just wait til monday. they did not seem to care. lol!