The Dentist

Well I did it...I sucked it up and made a dentist appointment...not before a tooth was bothering me though.  One of my back teeth was becoming sensitive to cold and thought this would be a good opportunity to make my dentist appointment (if you recall I made one back in March but I cancelled that as that was the day after we had to put Dweebs down and I was in no mood to go to the dentist).  Six months later I rescheduled.

After about 5 years the outcome was what was expected.  It was recommended that I get one tooth extracted as the bone is growing around the tooth and not holding it in and the dentist said that after a year or two it would be out anyway.  That was the tooth that was bothering me.  He also recommended a root canal on another one and either try a filling or root canal on another.  These are all my back teeth so after thinking about it I decided I would go the extraction way on one and try and fill the other.  If the filling didn't work then I would extract that one as well.  I have heard horror stories about root canals and everyone I talked to suggested I get them pulled.

So I went for my cleaning and that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.  Usually it hurts but that depends on your dental hygienist too.  The hygienist I went to is a runner from here in Timberlea and we used to follow her blog.  We have seen her running all last summer when we were training for our half marathon.  So we had a few things to talk about while she was cleaning.  She shared her first marathon story that didn't go as well as planned and hasn't run once since which we have in common as I told her about our half that wasn't fun.  I guess it happens to all of us.

So far I have had one tooth extracted (emergency before my Vegas vacation) and the another one is scheduled for the afternoon of  November 10 as that leaves me with a recovery day on the 11th as it is Remembrance Day.

One New Year's goal scratched off the list. 

- by Twin 2