It’s been a few weeks since I posted a blog. The main reason for the absence is that I’ve been suffering from cold, coughs and the like and generally feeling under the weather for a while. To top it all, I had to have a baby tooth removed at the dentist yesterday. I am in my 40s, and the dentist discovered this baby tooth a very short time ago. I don’t know why it hasn’t been spotted before, and at my last visit the dentist decided it was breaking up and had to come out. So I went along yesterday evening for what I was hoping was going to be a quick extraction. Except only half the tooth came out and the root was as stubborn as hell. The dentist got a variety of forceps and tried to prize the root out. It felt like he was boring into my skull at times and after 10 minutes, I started to panic a bit. Anyway, he continued his pulling for a while longer and eventually the difficult root did come out. I got up from the chair feeling pretty rough and paid the receptionist handsomely for the privilege. With a sore mouth today, I do worry about how dentists can say and do pretty much anything to our mouths and we wouldn’t know whether the treatment was needed or not.
Ailments galore
03 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Family Life
