Category Archives: doctors and dentists

8
Oct

It Ain't Over Until The Jaw Bone Melts

(This will, hopefully, be the last installment in what has been for many of you WAY too much information about my mouth) So, I had my progress meeting with the oral surgeon on Tuesday. It’s healing well, my sinus cavity … Continue reading →

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6
Oct

More Mouthyness

1. However many years ago, when I had all four impacted wisdom teeth surgically removed, I recovered just fine without the benefit of painkillers. For this one lousy tooth (and minor sinus reconstruction), I have been taking Vicodin on and … Continue reading →

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1
Oct

Wooooo-ie! And that's not just the Vicodin talking.

Note: Trying to write this before the Vicodin kicks in and makes me loopy. My apologies if I don’t succeed. My gnarly molar is gone-daddy-gone, and while it turns out that it did indeed reach all the way into my … Continue reading →

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30
Sep

The Troubling Tale of Tooth #2

I first went to a dentist about my aching wisdom teeth around 1995/96. “They haven’t yet broken the surface,” he said. “Give them more time to come in, and it will be easier to pull them out.” And so I … Continue reading →

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29
Sep

taking donations

You’ll be a dentist You have a talent for causing things pain Son, be a dentist People will pay you to be inhumane – Little Shop of Horrors I have an appointment with a new dentist on Monday. I am … Continue reading →

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