State of the Chazodont
Apr. 27th, 2010 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSo I have been to the dentist: who between training up a student and satisfying the curiosity of his patient spent as much time lecturing as drilling, but that's fine. Also cursing: no surprise, that I have an uncooperative tooth. (It's a rear molar, and he could only find one root canal out of three. There is an attractive theory that too much trauma causes dying teeth to kinda seal up their own canals, but he's not totally sold on this.)
Anyway, he has laid down a stratum of Ledermix (antibiotic/analgesic/steroid, since you ask; so did I) beneath a temporary filling, and I am to go back in a couple of weeks. Unless I am in agony when the local anaesthetic wears off - well, he actually said "if it's still bothering you in the morning" - in which case he recommends that I call. Okey-doke, then.
Meantime, comfortably numb. What to do? It's kinda distracting, just sitting here waiting for pain. Hoping it doesn't turn up. (Tim-the-dentist was kinda surprised when I flinched, while he was drilling; he withdrew, and I said "ow". He said, "why is that ow?" and reconsidered his diagnosis. Irreversible pulpitis, he decided: which leaves the tooth partially vital. Hence, ow. Much anaesthetic, applied I think directly down the hole he'd drilled. That was better.)
Maybe I'll just wander into town, and think about nice things for an hour or two. Or I could go to the DIY store and buy paint? That might be more practical. And there's a supermarket on the way, and I know there was something I wanted, though I can't remember what...
Or I might go downstairs and finish my reading-book. Or I might just sit here, actually. Can't decide if I want to be vigorous or idle, even...
Anyway, he has laid down a stratum of Ledermix (antibiotic/analgesic/steroid, since you ask; so did I) beneath a temporary filling, and I am to go back in a couple of weeks. Unless I am in agony when the local anaesthetic wears off - well, he actually said "if it's still bothering you in the morning" - in which case he recommends that I call. Okey-doke, then.
Meantime, comfortably numb. What to do? It's kinda distracting, just sitting here waiting for pain. Hoping it doesn't turn up. (Tim-the-dentist was kinda surprised when I flinched, while he was drilling; he withdrew, and I said "ow". He said, "why is that ow?" and reconsidered his diagnosis. Irreversible pulpitis, he decided: which leaves the tooth partially vital. Hence, ow. Much anaesthetic, applied I think directly down the hole he'd drilled. That was better.)
Maybe I'll just wander into town, and think about nice things for an hour or two. Or I could go to the DIY store and buy paint? That might be more practical. And there's a supermarket on the way, and I know there was something I wanted, though I can't remember what...
Or I might go downstairs and finish my reading-book. Or I might just sit here, actually. Can't decide if I want to be vigorous or idle, even...