Dentality

A crown on my far bottom left molar fell off Monday. I was at Tony Romas for lunch (mmmm cow) when my mouth gave birth to this little ceramic gift. Luckily I had a root canal on that tooth 5 years ago, so no nerves to shriek with agony but it was annoying as fuck and my tongue kept getting micro cuts from the sharp tooth shard back there. Off to the dentist I go. It's approximately 3 feet away from my office, we're across from each other.

First thing I notice is.. my dentist appears to be 25. And hot. Wearing a dentist outfit with new white Nike's. That works for me, I'm ok with this. She drops my bib twice while trying to put it on me. Finally she says "I'm just not very good at this". Not the most reassuring thing that could be said at this time, but I don't care, she's hot.

She has her assistant do xrays, and blah blah blah, no cavities, yay, but I'm going to need something called a Post and a new crown. Apparently Post's are made out of SOLID FUCKING GOLD because they quoted me $1600 for all the work/cleaning/followups/etc. They have worked on several of my coworkers and know that our ghetto insurance doesn't cover dental. So they give me a choice of 10 payment plans. Not too bad, I go with the 12 month no interest one and set the appt for Wednesday night.

Did I mention she was hot? Good.

Wednesday, drilling out the old root canal cap thing.. and problem. Seems to be bleeding where it shouldn't be. Seems the guy who did my root canal pushed too far down, broke through the bottom base of my tooth and left a small area under need the tooth (between the 2 roots) where bad stuff could happen. It never did before because the crown was there capping it.. but in the last 3 days since it fell off an infection has managed to settle in. Son of a bitch. She took new xrays so I could see the difference and I could see the growth from Monday. Fucking speedy opportunistic bacteria. Still, gotta admire their get-up-and-go spirit! Go bacteria! That's why bacteria are the dominant life form on the planet. We are just a fad.

So Post/New Crown is no longer an option. I swear the Dentist looked like she was going to cry and kept apologizing, though I coudn't see how it was her fault. Extraction it is.

Bonus: Extraction is like $200 instead of $1400, so yay for tooflessness. It's the last molar so a fakey can't be put in because there's nothing to attach it to. She asks if I want a specialist to look and see if it can be saved but honestly.. this thing has been bugging the shit out of me, and it looked pretty ugly anyway even with the porcelain crown, so yeah take it. If I ever get rich I can get an implant. So now I'm going to use the $ I had budgeted for the crown and get my teeth whitened and pretty like I was one of those cool non-smoking brushing 3x a day kids. My coworker ACE got it done and it looks really good. Don't tell him I said that, he'll get conceited. All in all, it should be 1/2 as much as I was originally budgeting so I'm not too upset.

So this blog is devoid of jokes and links. I'm on prescription pain meds to keep my jaw from throbbing, and antibiotics to keep things clean. I told the pretty dentist I wouldn't smoke but that was a lie. I just put my wet gauze pack onto the wound when I smoke to avoid dry-socket. Because.. I'm not going to stop smoking. That's just silly.

Oh! Last thing: I learned a lesson over the weekend. Don't leave your bitTorrent program up and running if you ever have to connect to a work network. Freaks the sys admins out to see a box connecting to 100's of seemingly random ip's constantly. I had to run 3 virus scans to prove I wasn't compromised and I have a feeling they still don't believe that I was just trying to download season 3 of Lost. Just in case I updated my PeerGuardian2 and I recommend anyone who uses torrents to p2p to grab it. Free, takes few resources, runs in the background, blah. Plus, duh, shut BitLord down before connecting to the VPN. Hee.

Ok I've rambled for longer than pain med will account for. I'm gonna Wii it up like a huge dork for awhile. Wii Sports is the greatest invention of ever and I need to practice. Kerri kicked my ass last Sunday at Wii Boxing and I need to get back in shape so I can take her down. In the game sickos. She has a restraining order so I can't do that for real. Bitch.

*poof*

Ps: roomie outta town til Friday night, time for some NAKED DISCO DANCING. If my cat kills herself, you know why.