that was a long week
Apr. 8th, 2009 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pauraque_bkThe offending tooth is gone!
I was getting very worried, not about the broken tooth itself which was already coming out, but because I was getting an equal amount of pain from the opposing tooth, which had nothing visibly wrong with it. Was it possible I had something horribly wrong with the tooth on the opposite side, totally by coincidence? I didn't have the money for them both to be extracted.
I told this to the oral surgeon, and he said it was almost certainly referred pain from the broken tooth. I was very skeptical, because the opposing tooth was if anything even more excruciating than the broken one, so he x-rayed it to make sure (which was worth the forty bucks to put my mind at ease). There was nothing wrong with it. I was shocked.
So he took out the broken tooth, which didn't hurt at all, but he had to use some kind of special drill to break the roots apart, which made a high-pitched noise that was scary even to me, and I have no fear of dentists whatsoever. It only took like 5 minutes but afterwards I was totally sweating, which surprised me. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_hannelore is terrified of dentistry and would have run screaming from the room.)
And what the fuck do you know, as soon as the bad tooth was gone, the naughty good tooth stopped hurting. I had no idea referred pain could be that strong. That shit is crazy.
No complications... There was a possibility that my sinus cavity could have been punctured, which is why I was at the oral surgeon and not the regular dentist, but that didn't happen.
If you live in the bay area and need an oral surgeon, try Michael Doucet. He did my wisdom teeth too. He knows his shit. And his name sounds like he is a Cardassian, though to the best of my knowledge he is not.
I was getting very worried, not about the broken tooth itself which was already coming out, but because I was getting an equal amount of pain from the opposing tooth, which had nothing visibly wrong with it. Was it possible I had something horribly wrong with the tooth on the opposite side, totally by coincidence? I didn't have the money for them both to be extracted.
I told this to the oral surgeon, and he said it was almost certainly referred pain from the broken tooth. I was very skeptical, because the opposing tooth was if anything even more excruciating than the broken one, so he x-rayed it to make sure (which was worth the forty bucks to put my mind at ease). There was nothing wrong with it. I was shocked.
So he took out the broken tooth, which didn't hurt at all, but he had to use some kind of special drill to break the roots apart, which made a high-pitched noise that was scary even to me, and I have no fear of dentists whatsoever. It only took like 5 minutes but afterwards I was totally sweating, which surprised me. (
_hannelore is terrified of dentistry and would have run screaming from the room.)And what the fuck do you know, as soon as the bad tooth was gone, the naughty good tooth stopped hurting. I had no idea referred pain could be that strong. That shit is crazy.
No complications... There was a possibility that my sinus cavity could have been punctured, which is why I was at the oral surgeon and not the regular dentist, but that didn't happen.
If you live in the bay area and need an oral surgeon, try Michael Doucet. He did my wisdom teeth too. He knows his shit. And his name sounds like he is a Cardassian, though to the best of my knowledge he is not.
