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December 2, 2004
Root Canal
So, for the last 2 weeks one of my teeth has been bugging me. It's been really sensitive to anything too hot or too cold. It aches, but not all the time. It has, in short, been messed up.
Now, I haven't been to a dentist in at least 12 years. This is due to the fact that the last dentist I went to was a butcher.
I managed to get up the nerve to go this morning and, sure enough, the tooth in question is screwed and I need to have a root canal. Happy, happy. Joy, joy. This seems to be the year of having strangers play with sharp metal object inside my head. One thing that the dentist did that struck me as funny, in this high tech age, was tap my teeth with the end of one of those dental mirror tools. Sure enough, the bad tooth sounded different. Low tech, but highly effective, I thought.
I was surprised at how much the state of the art in dentistry has progressed in the last dozen years. Everything is computerized, the chair is hooked to a computer and the X-Rays are done in the chair, with the little thingy they stick in your mouth being attached to a PCMCIA card that is in the computer. Poof! Instant X-Ray results on the monitor. When the computer is working, that is. The first chair they had me in crashed. Then they had to remove my record from the database and re-enter it, since the crash fubar'ed my database record. The second chair worked fine.
Posted by ed at December 2, 2004 10:59 AM
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Reminds my of the time they pulled my wisdom teeth. All FIVE wisdom teeth.
Posted by: Lare at December 3, 2004 10:14 PM