I’ve written about tooth aches and teeth extractions and dental psychosis a lot lately. That didn’t stop me from going to the Dentist yet again today.
After a lifetime of not being able to have dental x-rays without puking all over the place, I must have set a personal record today by having a shit load of them. I lost count but it was six? Seven? Eight? Something like that. I am literally glowing in the dark right now. The poor tech kept snapping pics and I kept sitting on the very edge of yacking only to have the image not be usable so we had to take it again. That happened a lot, but the tech thought we had enough… only for the dentist to ask for two more… which became three more because one of them didn’t come out. It was simultaneously an absolute nightmare but also weirdly pleasing because we managed to take so many of them. I am serious, I had more dental x-rays today than in the rest of my life combined.
What did it amount to? Let’s put it this way… I now have a solid plan for dental work for the rest of 2026 and an outline of a plan for all of 2027.
Yeah… things are that bad. At one point the dentist said she was going to set up a consult with her implant guy. She actually used the words “implant guy” and somehow that made me happy. I’ve always assumed I had implants in my future but I never had the courage to endure the dental visits that would be needed to get that actual work done. Also, they are fucking expensive. I figured I’d get one this year then another next year and then by the time I was 70 years old I’d have a full set of teeth, or something like that. Turns out I now have a doctor who agrees with that plan.
We start implementing the new plan two weeks from today. It’s going to suck in epic fashion but hopefully the end results will be worth it. I’m sick and tired of pain and I really don’t want to lose anymore teeth. Let’s do this thing.
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