Dentist - Take two

Sometimes I think bad things happen to bad people, and sometimes I think bad things happen to good people and then sometimes I think, I need to stop thinking and just punch kittens. Either way, bad stuff is going to happen.

I had to take a return trip to the dentist. Figured it would be easy; just put the crown on my once broken tooth. I was naive and wishful in my thought process. First step is for the dental assistant to remove the temporary cap, she pulls, she tugs, she twists.. the thing is not moving. I on the other hand have managed to clench my fingers and toes in response to the pain. She decides that she needs to saw it off. That is right, saw it off my tooth. I’m not sure why I didn’t get up and leave, just let the temporary cap stay on till nature decides it needed to come off, but no, I agree. So they numb me up and I sit there while she pleasant sticks some type of rotating blade in my mouth. About 20 minutes later, she is back to pulling and tugging. Luckily I was numb, so I didn’t feel a thing. Another 20 minutes goes by and she gets all the little pieces off. Then she goes, well your gums are a little irritated.
Irritated is a mild word. What was actually going on is my gums were bleeding profusely from the damage she did. This wouldn’t have bothered me, except when they tried to put the crown on, it wouldn’t’ fit right, cause my inflamed gums were getting in the way. Their solution was to suggest lasering part of my gums off. Not only would this stop them from being in way of the crown, but it would also cauterize the bleeding. Again, I ask myself, why I didn’t just leave, but I didn’t instead I say let’s do this.

So they pull out their nifty laser and start doing their thing. I hadn’t completely thought about what was meant by cauterizing the gums till I smelled the pleasant smell of burning flesh. I fought bravely against both the panic and the nausea that was coming. I thought I was holding it together rather well till I realized that I could feel ‘heat’ along my gums. I talked myself through that was still holding on, but then they blew water across the tooth. It was like a thousand pinpoints of pain in my mouth, I felt it to my toes. I swiftly let them know that I could feel pain. There was then a discussion about trying to numb me back up or letting them finish as they were almost done. Again, I should have just left, but instead I said go ahead. So they continued on. My hair stood on end, my toes curled in pain, but finally they finished, and the crown was on with a good fit.

It only took 2 hours. It is now, just shy of 12 hours later and my gums are still ‘irritated’ and my jaw aches.

I do not know if I have the perseverance to go back to the dentist ever again.

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