Ow

[rejectomorph]

95 degrees today.

The procedure is called perio root planing, and it's costly. For two molars, $152. (Two bucks more than a permanent LJ account.) My tongue is numb. I can taste blood. This is going to hurt like hell when the anesthetic wears off.

My sleep was disrupted today, too, so I'm running on about five hours.

Other than all that, it's a nice day.

Planing! Aptly named. The whole time, I was picturing a woodworkers plane sliding across a board, the thin slices of removed wood curling up and falling aside. Wood smells better than blood, though.

Oh, tongue all tingly. Here it comes.

Comments

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

I hate that novacaine mouth thing. I'm glad I don't feel the dental work, but isn't there another way to handle that?

[rejectomorph]

I don't mind so much when it's just a tooth or two, but I really hate when they work on the bottom teeth and my tongue gets numb.

There's general anesthesia, too, but I've never used that. I like to know what's going on. Also, I had an uncle who died in the dentist's chair when under general anesthesia. That sort of puts me off.

There's also the sodium pentathol, but I've been told that it wipes out inhibitions and that you never remember what you said or did while under it.

I've been curious about the nitrous oxide, but haven't tried it. It doesn't do anything to prevent pain, but gets you so high that you just don't care how much it hurts.

Sometimes I think it would be easier if we could just give up eating, so we wouldn't even need teeth.