Good news! Kinda. I did not have an abscess tooth, but an abscess gum. They got me on some anti-biotics to take away the infection, but not with out some embarrassment on my part. The tooth I though was a cavity was not. Apparently when I was 6 or so, I had a filling done on the very tooth and they put like an enamel covering over it to hide it. Well the covering came off and I was actually looking at the filling not a cavity! LOL!
Well just my luck they had an appointment for a cleaning cancel so they get me into the chair for a long over due cleaning on the right side of my mouth. The left side is next week. The doctor bitched at me because I have not been to the dentist in about a decade but I threw it back at her that I could not afford dental work those 10 years.
Well the right side of my mouth feels awesomely clean and I can’t stop playing with them with my tongue! All of the shots they gave me just wore off but I have a pain medication Rx. Having your mouth numbed is the strangest feeling!
I can’t wait till al the tooth work is done so I can get my teeth whitened. I hate the color of my teeth, and I am very lucky to have perfectly straight and even teeth. I want to show them off, but not until they are white!
April 30th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
I’m behind on reading blogs. I was at a conference Tuesday through Saturday, and mostly didn’t have internet access because the hotel charged $10 a day for it!
Glad to hear the dental issue could be addressed without something super-major like a root canal. Phil had one of those last fall — his first. The procedure itself actually wasn’t so bad. But the preventive antibiotic they gave him broke him out in an itchy rash all over his body!
April 30th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
The ones I am on leave this perma-bad taste in my mouth. I feel the need to constantly use mouthwash to get rid of it.
I will need a root canal on the half tooth I have, but it ha been that way for as long as I can remember. They say OMG its gonna absecess any moment, but it can wait till this other stuff gets done and I can have a break to stay at home and rest.