Today I took a trip to the 'oral surgeon'. My dentist had suggested (strongly) that I have a couple of my wisdom teeth removed. One of them was in a real mess and was badly chipped, with the dentine exposed, which was causing me some considerable pain.
Anyway, I went along, had a little novocaine and had them yanked out via local anaesthetic. Mainly 'cos having a 'general' would have cost me an extra $300!! As it was I had the extra pain of paying $330. And although I'm sure there is some fancy name for the implement he used, he still pretty much used a pair of pliers for this kind of thing!
Took a couple of pictures for those of you interested in these sorts of things. And by the state of them I'm grateful to Dr Schwartz for pulling them out. That cavity was causing some discomfort and now I have a close-up view I'm not surprised. And the cyst he found and removed, plus the extra bony growth on the root of the upper, looked pretty revolting too. Ew!
By the way, it was extraordinarily painful once the novocaine wore off. Fortunately I had some extra drugs to take: they cost me $40 too.
2 comments:
Sounds like it was worth the money to clear up that little lot!
Eww! Tezza! That mings!
Hope you're slowly recovering, though. I had a couple of teeth pulled out just before ALA a couple of years ago. If it's any consolation it cost me about that much on the NHS, although that might have included the bridge they then put in ... either way it definitely involved pliers and, at one point, the dentist's knee on my shoulder. I had big bloody gaping painful holes in my face all through the show. Well, that's one way to make an impression on libes/journos ...
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