RANT!!! My teeth...

[NorCalPiper]

Back in the 90's when I lived in South Africa, I had a TON of work done on my teeth. Something like 6 cavities filled, scaling, etc. Just recently I had one of the fillings fall out...no big deal, but upon further X-Rays and examinations, its been determined that more than half of the fillings have cracked and decay is beginning under them! So yeah-i have dental insurance, but as opposed to health insurance, dental is more like 20% off coupons. Bottom line is that I'm looking at about 10k worth of work in the coming year (Root canals and such).....I've elected to have the immediate tooth in question pulled since it is the furthest back molar and will only cost 200$ to do, but man I'm pissed! So off I go at 2:30 (Tooth-hurty) to get it yanked...Dammit!! I'll be kilted at least.

[xman]

Sorry to hear it Josh. I've been putting off an extraction and bridge work for over a decade now as the tooth just keeps hanging on.

Bon Chance.

[Lallans]

Get a job with dental coverage- then your bills will quadruple but your dentist will bring up the local economy. And if you buy a luxury car or big boat franchise, you can get some of that money back.

[NorCalPiper]

It was quick....but gruesome. How people tolerated , or even did this before modern medicine is a nightmare to think about!

[Tartan Tess]

Wait until a doctor finds something inside of you....this will seem like nothing.
this is life...

[NorCalPiper]

My mother said the EXACT same thing!

[auld argonian]

Sounds like you have one of the same problems that I have...the old fillings rattling their way loose and having to be replaced by modern, hi-tech stuff.

On one of the last ones, my dentist did some very detailed digital photos of the recently vacated area and that got fed into the computer. The computer then controlled a machine in another room that machined an exact fit for the hole out of some new dental material that matched the color of the tooth exactly and when it was done he epoxied it into place.

Neat, huh?

But I forgot to ask him ahead of time just what this was going to cost and whether my insurance was going to pay for it...ouch-a-ma-goucha-ma!

Still, should future anthropologists find my skull, they will, no doubt, be mighty impressed...

Best

AA

[auld argonian]

Wait until a doctor finds something inside of you....this will seem like nothing.
this is life...

Hopefully, he won't find something like a 9mm slug in you...or have I just lived in Chicago too long?

Best

AA

[ohiopiper]

I must admit that I'm going to be looking at some dental work in the near future, too. Seems all the men in my family (only men, no women) who are descendant from a particular individual (great-great-grandfather) lose all their top teeth. My lowers are in good shape, my uppers look like a prizefighters, about a third are broken or missing. I'm contemplating having them all pulled and an upper plate done.

[McMurdo]

Josh, I know this won't make you feel any better but it is fitting

Address To The Toothache

My curse upon your venom'd stang,
That shoots my tortur'd gums alang,
An' thro' my lug gies mony a twang,
Wi' gnawing vengeance,
Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang,
Like racking engines!

When fevers burn, or argues freezes,
Rheumatics gnaw, or colics squeezes,
Our neibor's sympathy can ease us,
Wi' pitying moan;
But thee-thou hell o' a' diseases-
Aye mocks our groan.

Adown my beard the slavers trickle
I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle,
While round the fire the giglets keckle,
To see me loup,
While, raving mad, I wish a heckle
Were in their doup!

In a' the numerous human dools,
Ill hairsts, daft bargains, cutty stools,
Or worthy frien's rak'd i' the mools, -
Sad sight to see!
The tricks o' knaves, or fash o'fools,
Thou bear'st the gree!

Where'er that place be priests ca' hell,
Where a' the tones o' misery yell,
An' ranked plagues their numbers tell,
In dreadfu' raw,
Thou, Toothache, surely bear'st the bell,
Amang them a'!

O thou grim, mischief-making chiel,
That gars the notes o' discord squeel,
Till daft mankind aft dance a reel
In gore, a shoe-thick,
Gie a' the faes o' Scotland's weal
A townmond's toothache!