Beer bottle teeth part two
You remember how I said the top of the filling had come off my tooth? And I was told I couldn’t get an appointment for weeks if it wasn’t an immediate emergency? And I thought I’d look around to see if anyone else could do it quicker?
Well, guess what, I didn’t; I thought, given that this has happened before, that it would be okay to leave it for a bit, just keep the area clean to avoid infection. And guess what, just now, one entire side of the tooth started wobbling. Oh, that’s great. I expect the top of the filling was not just there to prevent things getting to the rest of the filling, but was also keeping the tooth together. Terrific.
Of course, it appears that it’s utterly impossible to see dentists on Saturdays or Sundays, according to my phone calls. I’m not in immediate pain so it’s not an emergency. However I now don’t want to eat anything in case it causes half the tooth to entirely come out. I seem to have managed to jam the wobbly bit back in there but I don’t trust it to behave itself now… hopefully I’m not going to swallow it in the night, or inhale it. I’m guessing they’ll probably want to take the whole tooth out and replace it with something expensive. Got an appointment for Monday 9am at the second-nearest dentist.
Sorry, this is not as entertaining as the last tooth entry but I’m quite worried and it’s completely killed any positive mood I had. Watching the latest played-entirely-straight piece of CNN propaganda (focus on kindly US troops teaching Iraqi orphans to play American football out of the goodness of their hearts, which apparently also requires leading them in chants of “America! America! America!” and “Democracy! Democracy! Democracy!” – no, I am not joking, I think it was supposed to be heartwarming) didn’t help. You can watch this if you have a CNN Newspass or RealOne Superpass, but I don’t because it’s a waste of money and I don’t want to see it again anyway.
Mind you, there was an appalling segment this morning about the two Muslims arrested by the Army at Guantanamo Bay – the ones who were supposed to be on the US side, that is – which immediately assumed that they were both guilty and asked at length “should we ban all Muslims from the Army?” despite the fact that one of them hasn’t even been charged yet. I didn’t like that either. But I was trying to forget about it. CNN on TV is very different from the CNN website.
Sod. Don’t open beer bottles with your teeth, kids.
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Kat Said,
September 27, 2003 @ 7:58 pm
Jefferson Dental. They have Saturday hours and there are quite a number of dentists in attendance.
omnihilo Said,
September 28, 2003 @ 1:40 am
Half of one of my teeth (farthest one back on the top right) came off one day when I was eating something. Doesn’t hurt. I’d planned on getting it fixed, but it’s fucking expensive. It’s been like a year or so, and it hasn’t started hurting, so , eh. Eh.
fridgemagnet Said,
September 28, 2003 @ 8:30 am
I have this fear that the exposed metal is poisoning me and causing permanent brain damage. However, my rational mind tells me that it is in fact CNN that’s damaging my brain.
The filling was put in by a dentist between swigs of bourbon, though. In ‘Nam. He didn’t have any materials so I gave him a bullet to put in the cavity. The beer bottle story is just a cover, you know – I lost the tooth to a VC sniper.
omnihilo Said,
September 28, 2003 @ 8:47 am
Actually, some of the more ardent among the tin-foil brigade will swear up and down that the mercury in fillings will give you alzheimers. And that the government KNOWS this, and for some reason (double plus ungood, no doubt) approves. The same people that, in the same anti-dentite rant, will say how flouride was first put in drinking water by the nazis to pacify those in detainee camps, and was used for the same reason for livestock after that. So, according to them, there really IS something in the water. Who knew.
LAuren Said,
October 20, 2003 @ 6:38 pm
HEy wuts up?
LAuren (again) Said,
October 20, 2003 @ 6:40 pm
Well….. I mean we all know that I am the coolest person here…. so…. well just email me…….later….
LAuren (again) Said,
October 20, 2003 @ 6:40 pm
Well….. I mean we all know that I am the coolest person here…. so…. well just email me…….later….
shut up LAuren!!! Said,
October 20, 2003 @ 6:42 pm
Hey LAuren just shut up OK????
Uh... NO u didn't just say that Said,
October 20, 2003 @ 6:43 pm
Dont talk to me like that loser……..
Anonymous Said,
October 20, 2003 @ 6:44 pm
What kind of name is fridgemagnet annyway???? stupid…