When nobody was looking last Friday afternoon I used my cameraphone to snap this photo of my root canal x-ray. The root canal tooth is the second from the left, where you can see 3 white roots. The fact that you can see them shows that the nerves got removed and some gunk that shows up on x-rays got put in their places.
Friday was the second root canal procedure: the first was to get the nerves out and to shove some temporary antibiotic gunk in there, and that was the previous Saturday. Friday had the dentist remove that gunk and put in this other gunk.
I was a bit worried this weekend because the tooth was bothering me, and I was going to make a whiny call to the dentist’s office this morning but then I woke up and there was no pain and inflammation. The tooth, methinks, is taunting me. This will be the first time in weeks where I haven’t called the dentist on a Monday or Tuesday complaining of pain. I wonder if he’ll miss me.
As it is, I won’t miss him, even if he is cute. He was so busy on Friday trying to do 50 things at once (he’s the junior guy, and the senior partners were all on vacation) that I spent at least 20 minutes sitting around in an empty room with a dental dam in my mouth and the novocaine wearing off, waiting for him to come back and finish the procedure. And when he did, he burned my face a couple times with whatever instrument he was using to seal the gunk. Seriously, it left marks.
I really just wrote this post to show you the x-ray, although I guess it’s not that interesting. Don’t worry, I really do plan on shutting up about this soon, potentially right now.
I just skimmed this blog post, but I think I got all the salient points: some cute guy put gunk in your mouth and then took pictures of it; even though you were wearing a dental dam, some of the gunk still managed to burn your mouth; you paid for all this to happen.
Kinky!
You’re such a perv, filmgoerjuan. Why don’t we hang out more?
I was going to say how happy I am to hear that you may be able to put the nasty pain behind you. But I can’t because I’m laughing too hard at filmgoerjuan’s comment.
Like the X-ray. I always thought it would be interesting to have X-rays of your body, an ultrasound or maybe an MRI just to see what’s inside. You only ever get them when there’s something wrong though and usually you don’t get to have a proper look. Maybe I’m just weird.
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