Pez is home
Aug. 2nd, 2006 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pezThanks for all the well wishes! Pez is home and pain-free. (well, totally numb XD;)
Here's what happened:
Pez: DANIERU! ITAI-YO. It hurts. IT HURTSES. *describes the past few days* I think it's the upper wisdom tooth.
Dentist: *checks* O_o It shouldn't be giving you any problem though! If anything, it should be the lower one that might hurt you coz it's trying to grow out sideways.
Pez: ..... :O?
Dentist: Let's take an x-ray and see.
[a jiffy later]
Dentist: I found the problem. There's rotting underneath one of your fillings. *shows x-ray result* It's actually one of the teeth quite near the front. Nothing wrong with your wisdom teeth.
Pez: WTFBBQ? B-but that filling was done eons ago! And the pain is definitely at the very back! TARUNDORU!
Dentist: Well, nerves are funny like that. Let me sort this out for you.
[another jiffy later]
Dentist: All fixed! There's temporary filling there now. You'll need to get a crown for it.
Pez: *numb right up to her nose* Oh. Okay.
....so, not the wisdoms. No extraction needed. Yay. It was all done with high-speed NHS-ness. When I come back from Japan I might get my usual dentist to take a good look at it, just for good measure.
The question is, just how come a filling so old could be rotting underneath? x_x
(Side note: the lower left wisdom, Mr.Dentist said, would require surgery if it ever needs to be extracted. Oh joy. At least all the other ones are okay.)
(Also, I think from now on all dentists should be calledCatherine Daniel.)
Here's what happened:
Pez: DANIERU! ITAI-YO. It hurts. IT HURTSES. *describes the past few days* I think it's the upper wisdom tooth.
Dentist: *checks* O_o It shouldn't be giving you any problem though! If anything, it should be the lower one that might hurt you coz it's trying to grow out sideways.
Pez: ..... :O?
Dentist: Let's take an x-ray and see.
[a jiffy later]
Dentist: I found the problem. There's rotting underneath one of your fillings. *shows x-ray result* It's actually one of the teeth quite near the front. Nothing wrong with your wisdom teeth.
Pez: WTFBBQ? B-but that filling was done eons ago! And the pain is definitely at the very back! TARUNDORU!
Dentist: Well, nerves are funny like that. Let me sort this out for you.
[another jiffy later]
Dentist: All fixed! There's temporary filling there now. You'll need to get a crown for it.
Pez: *numb right up to her nose* Oh. Okay.
....so, not the wisdoms. No extraction needed. Yay. It was all done with high-speed NHS-ness. When I come back from Japan I might get my usual dentist to take a good look at it, just for good measure.
The question is, just how come a filling so old could be rotting underneath? x_x
(Side note: the lower left wisdom, Mr.Dentist said, would require surgery if it ever needs to be extracted. Oh joy. At least all the other ones are okay.)
(Also, I think from now on all dentists should be called
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Date: 2006-08-03 03:06 am (UTC)basically that's possible, if the older filling is done a bit carelessly, ie. they have not removed enough stuff from the teeth before putting the filling, or they've put the filling not very well there.
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Date: 2006-08-03 02:16 pm (UTC)