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threemonkeysWords you just do not want to hear from your dentist - "oh dear, we are going to have to do that again". These words from a man who amongst the distractions in his surgery is a poster depicting a cartoon version of hell and the words "Abandon all hope ye who enter here".
This was work to repair a filling that an extra sticky toffee pulled out a few weeks ago. It left a jagged edge which was abrading my tongue but it wasn't a big or deep hole. It turned out to be a rather bigger job than expected especially when the replacement filling failed to adhere to the rest of the tooth and so they had to go with a different filling material and bonding agent. On the positive side, it turns out that that toffee did me a favour. It seems that there was some decay going on underneath a filling in that tooth and it would have got a lot worse before being detected if not for having to do the repair work.
On the way home, I was reflecting that there are a lot of negatives to visiting a dentist and the best you can get as a positive is that it would be worse if you didn't go. But of all the bad things, for me the worst is the realisation that teeth are the hardest and toughest bits of your body and they still crumble away on you. What does that say for the rest of you. Depressing huh? Except that the depression didn't last long as I started to think about all those festive season foods that I can enjoy without worrying about a jagged edge on a tooth.
This was work to repair a filling that an extra sticky toffee pulled out a few weeks ago. It left a jagged edge which was abrading my tongue but it wasn't a big or deep hole. It turned out to be a rather bigger job than expected especially when the replacement filling failed to adhere to the rest of the tooth and so they had to go with a different filling material and bonding agent. On the positive side, it turns out that that toffee did me a favour. It seems that there was some decay going on underneath a filling in that tooth and it would have got a lot worse before being detected if not for having to do the repair work.
On the way home, I was reflecting that there are a lot of negatives to visiting a dentist and the best you can get as a positive is that it would be worse if you didn't go. But of all the bad things, for me the worst is the realisation that teeth are the hardest and toughest bits of your body and they still crumble away on you. What does that say for the rest of you. Depressing huh? Except that the depression didn't last long as I started to think about all those festive season foods that I can enjoy without worrying about a jagged edge on a tooth.