I went to the dentist for the first time in 8 years yesterday. I had no idea getting your teeth cleaned was so painful... vibrating all the life-accumulated tartar off like you're sanding down wood, followed by forceful scrapping and double-checking, and finishing off w/ some polish. (It tasted like toothpaste. ^__^)
There was lot of blood. When I did the routine mouth-rinse, there were occasionally little blood chunks. Is that normal?? Are they chunks of my gums?! o_O
They discovered I have 2 small cavities in both my upper-back molars. ROYAL DANG. Now I have to go back next Friday to get them out. I hope it’s covered. *heh* Thank goodness I didn’t have anything more crazy like them root canals. Just the sound of it makes it seem like something of a horror movie. “I’m going to twist root canals into each of your teeth until I feel them penetrate your jaw bone.” My sister had one and she paid over a grand to get it fixed. Yikes.
Oh and they took X-rays of my teeth! I didn’t know technology was this advanced that they could take an X-ray image and show me it by the end of an appointment... I feel so out of it. =oP
Next week is my very necessary optometrist appointment. Haven’t gone to one of them since I got my first glasses (7 years ago), which are the ones I’m wearing now, which are also the ones wear and need to squint to see certain things. We’ll see how that goes... maybe they’ll discover I have a root canal.
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