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Well, it was dentist visit today. I always want to come home and cry after dentist visits, same as with gyno visits, because I feel all vulnerable and crap- exposing my various tender body cavities to scary men with metal things. It’s not my favorite thing in the world.
Bad news, I have a fucking cavity. It’s in the side of a tooth that already has a lot of the top replaced with porcelain, so they’re going to have to be careful. He thinks the cavity is shallow enough that he can just plug it up without messing up the top, but if he’s not careful then he’s going to have to replace the whole mess and it gets more complicated. This will happen on Tuesday May 31st. They have a new device where they stick a probe with a wee camera at the end in your mouth and can get a good close-up of the tight places. I got to spend most of the visit looking at a 19 inch monitor with my cavity-ridden tooth as big as a fucking grapefruit displayed in all it’s glory.
As is often the case, I learned something new. I have an exceptionally small mouth (one of the first things I learned- it’s positively John Lithgow-esque) and my back molars have 5 points on them rather than the usual 4. Today, I learned that my tongue is a horrible cesspit of evil. The hygienist said my gums were ‘immaculate’ so he apparently felt a need to make sure I felt like I was getting my money’s worth and brought up my tongue, which no one’s ever mentioned before. Apparently dead skin just sits on top and layers pile on and unless you do something about it you have a Disneyland for bacteria. So he showed me a tongue scraper, which looked like a teeny tiny 2-person saw. He said I should scrape the hell out of it every day, though after a week my tongue should be nice and pink if I keep it up. He demonstrated, and scraped up quite an impressive pile of vile-looking tongue detritus. He says that food will taste better, and I allowed as to how that might not be such a great idea for me. He also noted that I have a ‘split tongue’. You know that groove that runs down the middle of your tongue? Mine’s especially deep. Neither of us could (or was willing to voice out loud) any immediate advantage to this feature, but it was apparently noteworthy.
At least they used mint-flavored teeth cleaning goo. That fruity stuff is nasty. And I got to keep the tongue scraper.
Bad news, I have a fucking cavity. It’s in the side of a tooth that already has a lot of the top replaced with porcelain, so they’re going to have to be careful. He thinks the cavity is shallow enough that he can just plug it up without messing up the top, but if he’s not careful then he’s going to have to replace the whole mess and it gets more complicated. This will happen on Tuesday May 31st. They have a new device where they stick a probe with a wee camera at the end in your mouth and can get a good close-up of the tight places. I got to spend most of the visit looking at a 19 inch monitor with my cavity-ridden tooth as big as a fucking grapefruit displayed in all it’s glory.
As is often the case, I learned something new. I have an exceptionally small mouth (one of the first things I learned- it’s positively John Lithgow-esque) and my back molars have 5 points on them rather than the usual 4. Today, I learned that my tongue is a horrible cesspit of evil. The hygienist said my gums were ‘immaculate’ so he apparently felt a need to make sure I felt like I was getting my money’s worth and brought up my tongue, which no one’s ever mentioned before. Apparently dead skin just sits on top and layers pile on and unless you do something about it you have a Disneyland for bacteria. So he showed me a tongue scraper, which looked like a teeny tiny 2-person saw. He said I should scrape the hell out of it every day, though after a week my tongue should be nice and pink if I keep it up. He demonstrated, and scraped up quite an impressive pile of vile-looking tongue detritus. He says that food will taste better, and I allowed as to how that might not be such a great idea for me. He also noted that I have a ‘split tongue’. You know that groove that runs down the middle of your tongue? Mine’s especially deep. Neither of us could (or was willing to voice out loud) any immediate advantage to this feature, but it was apparently noteworthy.
At least they used mint-flavored teeth cleaning goo. That fruity stuff is nasty. And I got to keep the tongue scraper.
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Date: Apr. 19th, 2005 10:50 pm (UTC)From:I'm so sorry you have a cavity. At least you got to keep the tounge scraper. I'll have to get me one of those.
Sheena
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Date: Apr. 20th, 2005 03:11 am (UTC)From:Well I should hope so! Can you imagine them only having one, and using it on everyone? Gyuuugh.
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Date: Apr. 20th, 2005 03:47 am (UTC)From: