Woe is me!

[rosiespark]

I'm off to the dentist this afternoon. ::sigh:: A long-deferred visit, finally made unputoffable by the fact that I have toothache. Thing is, it's the sort of toothache that serves as a polite but persistent reminder that All Is Not As It Should Be. With an undercurrent of Ignore Me And You'll Live To Regret It.

Good God, my teeth are talking to me! Does this count as hearing voices in my head?

PS The mood icon! That's me, in the dentist's chair. Oh dear.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Even going to the dentist is better than living with a toothache. Hope it goes well!

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Even if it's barely there, intermittemt toothache? Not convinced. I think I only gave in because I was worried it'd develop into fullblown raging toothache on a Saturday night or Sunday morning. *g*

It went fine, BTW.The problem was a massive cavity in an upper molar, with the pain somehow being referred to the lower jaw. The dentist has a new toy: a camera on a probe thingy, with a screen where the patient can see it. He drilled away the surface of the tooth and then showed me the cavity, and my reaction was that whole teams of cavers could get lost in there...

So root treatment. And I had to take 3 grammes of amoxycillin before he'd do anything, because of my heart murmer. Three grammes! Next appointment on Monday, when hopefully, the job will get finished. The rest of my teeth, thankfully, are in reasonable shape. Whew!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The problem is that little toothaches turn into big, unbearable toothaches - and can do so very quickly. Usually on a weekend. Right.

That camera-in-the-mouth technology sounds scary!

Good thing the rest of your teeth are fine.

[splonders.livejournal.com]

...Good luck!Treatment today is much better now than it was,and quicker,too,thought it seems like forever when you are sitting in the chair.I took a cleaning job at my dentist to get over the fear,through familiarity,and mostly it works.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I have a very good dentist. I'd be absolutely petrified if I had to go to someone else...

You haven't posted in ...ages, BTW. ::waves:: Nice to hear from you!

[meyerlemon.livejournal.com]

I kind of have this, too! I have anxiety. What if it's Something Really Bad?

Clearly, the responsible thing for me to do is ignore it.

(Good luck!)

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Clearly, the responsible thing for me to do is ignore it

Heh. Try the commonsense approach - 1) it's not going to get better on its own is it? And 2) you don't want it to get any worse. Right? Right. So off you go.

*g*

[dargie.livejournal.com]

No, no, no! It works like this: Something is wrong. It will either 1) Get better, 2) Get worse, 3) Stay the same. If it gets better, why bother? If it stays the same, it can't be that bad. If it gets worse, then you can go.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Can I poke holes in your story? *g*

1) Teeth don't get better on their own.
2) One invariably gets excrutiating toothache when the dentist is closed.
3) One ends up sitting in the dentist's chair anyway.

So it's a matter of calculatedly choosing to suffer a bit now rather than suffer more at a later stage. Looks like I'm an instant gratification girl when it comes to pain as well as everything else. LOL.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

1) Ah, but mine do! Sometimes. Pain in my teeth is often a sinus or grinding issue. So you see, it actually does work.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Or maybe you have magical self-repairing teeth. That work (presumably) on the same principle as self-cleaning ovens and frost-free freezers... ;)

[dargie.livejournal.com]

I am always open to suggestions of the miraculous. Especially as concern teeth.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Ack dental woes. I don't really hate going to the dentist, I just don't do it often enough. *sigh*

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Not so woeful, in actual fact. And now I'm feeling very virtuous. ::smirks:: Undeservedly so, in actual fact, since according to their records, my last visit was almost five years ago. Can you beat that? ;)

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Not lately. Alas, my dentist is also my tenant. He knows where I live. *g*

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

You were right to go. An abscess would have been a real bummer. It might have taken a long time to become one, but it would have done eventually. I have an excellent dentist, go every six to nine months and don't feel remotely nervous about it because I trust his judgement and his work. Antibiotics--blargh--but necessary.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I'm supposed to be careful about my teeth because of the heart murmur, so five years between visits isn't really very clever. Stupid teeth, why can't they last a lifetime? It's a flaw in the design - return this model to the drawing board. Hmph.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

My grandmother had all of her teeth at 100, and if there had been a better standard of dental care when I was a kid (i.e. floss, brushes with Harry Potter on them, more sophisticated dental techniques etc) my teeth would be in better shape than they are. But those huge amalgam fillings they used to give us when we were kids are a slow route to crowns eventually. And it also depends on the water in the area where you grew up.

If you floss and brush properly, then things will be in pretty good shape, but you should go at least once a year so that you avoid drastic interventions.

Lots of flaws--but eyes are worse.

[msilverstar]

*huggles you*