Dental Health Fun

I’m not a big fan of the dentist. I’ve had a few rather bad experiences with the dentist which left me with a feeling this cartoon portrays rather well…



Not to mention the bright lights and feeling like you were just picked up by a not so friendly alien examining you on a UFO.

However, I’ve been in horrendous pain the past month with this toothache. It started about two months ago or so, maybe a little longer. I don’t have dental insurance or health care of any kind so I haven’t been going to the dentist like I should. My teeth aren’t horrible or anything (though I would like to get invsilgn one day) but I did know I needed a cavity filled where said pain was coming from.

So, I found a dental office nearby. The main dental doctor there has a lot of experience and has been published in medical journals and magazines and stuff, but his picture on the pamphlet they sent me cracked me up – he looked like Orson Hodge on Desperate Housewives and he was a dentist on the show too! Too funny.

Last week I went in for the appointment so they could find out what was wrong with the tooth or teeth. He didn’t really look like Orson, so at least I didn’t laugh in the office. The office is really nice though and the staff there is all very nice and helpful, so that is a good thing too.

What was the pain coming from? Well I had a filling that was loose and a cracked tooth (not fully cracked just a little) by where the filling was and 2 cavaties in that area on those 2 teeth. Ouch!

This morning I had it taken care of - finally. They had to take out the loose filling and then fix the other two. They had the Novocain that they rubbed on first (or whatever it is) and then the shot or shots of it. Luckily it worked really well and I didn’t feel anything. Not to say I didn’t grip on the armrest though – I always do that.

At least the dentist said that I shouldn’t need a root canal because it didn’t go to the root. If I waited 6 months more though I would have or needed to have them pulled. Eeek! I’m glad I went when I did (but really I should have gone sooner).

After I left there my Mom dragged me around the mall and then Hobby Lobby. I love to shop, but talking weird and feeling like my face looks funny from the Novocain Numb feeling is not so fun. Plus, by the time we left I was in enormous pain and really needed a pain killer.

I’m still on pain killers because it might take up to a week for the pain to go away fully. It shouldn’t take that long though. Anyways, if the post didn’t make full sense – that is why. If that is the case though, I hope you at least had a good laugh.