i hate teeth
i went to the dentist on wednesday. bad news, another root canal (this one being the “watchspot” my dentist warned me about the last time i saw him, ~1.5 years ago. yes i know you should visit the dentist every 6 months. but i’m scared of them!!) also, a couple of my fillings were done incorrectly… making them more prone to cavity (and also snagging my floss whenever i floss) so i scheduled the first of many appointments to fix my teeth for the 2nd.
my root canal tooth had been hinting at problems for quite some time. off and on, it’d hurt and then get better. the day before my dentist appointment, it started hurting again 
i attributed it to pre-dentist visit anxiety. my tooth was nervous! well, finding out i needed a root canal just kind of confirmed what i longed believed (but never acted on ), there was a cavity. and now it was massive.
so for the first time in the past couple of days, my tooth was feeling a bit better. it wasn’t hurting unless i bit on it. anyhoo, i was snacking on some cereal just now… paul newman’s! blueberry! pecan clusters! it’s great. happily enjoying my food… not chewing with that tooth, but around that area. i had been chewing exclusively on the other side, but worrying that i was wearing out the teeth on that side and making them susceptible cavities, i needed to spread around the chewing work!! i figured, the tooth being as sensitive as it was, it would yelp in pain before i got remotely close to biting down on it.
and then it cracked. i thought it was the pecan cluster, i chewed some more. little bits of “rocks” didn’t seem consistent with the pecan cluster. so i freaked out, realized it was my tooth and spat everything out (it’s ok. both my officemates are out today)
well… the good news is that it didn’t hurt as much as i used to think chipping a tooth would hurt. the bad news is, yup… it looks pretty bad. i had been wikipedia-ing cavities earlier today and made a comment to julie about how my cavitied teeth never seemed to show any indication of decay… none of those visible gruesome brown rot or whatever. i thought i had stealth cavities. not so… one of the pieces of tooth that broke off, while not as nasty as those pictures, is brown…
i had to set up an emergency appointment with the dentist tomorrow. the receptionist mentioned possibly needing an extraction … i’m hoping this chip isn’t that big and that they can salvage my tooth
BOOOO
