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Talking through the grind
By Sparky | May 8, 2007
In the interests of my continued dental health today marked the start of eight dental appointments in the next 4 months. After getting my teeth cleaned and assessed last week we came up with the full treatment plan to finish off all the last little things that have been getting pushed back due to dental emergency after dental emergency and the pain associated with such emergencies. My upcoming appointments will provide fillings for four teeth (technically three now that I’m done with today), and put crowns on two other teeth that have had root canals during the sordid past my mouth has lived.
Getting a filling or root canal done can provide an interesting if not lopsided conversation. My dentist (Guy Roberts on Capitol Hill - I can’t recommend him enough) is quite the conversationalists and is in to many of the same things I am. We got to talking today while he was numbing me up about his new TV and the fact that he just started watching The Planet Earth of Discovery HD. Having just picked up The Planet Earth on HD-DVD (technically the BBC version, not the Discovery version) we chatted a bit about it.
Once the drilling started the conversation suddenly became rather single sided - He continued to talk about the stunning footage of whales, insects, and space photography all the while grinding away at my teeth with his drill. Every once in a while when he would pause to grab another instrument I would have my opportunity to blurt out “Sir David Attenborough” or “Consider getting the Toshiba HD-A1″ only to have the drill crammed back in to remove more of my precious enamel.
It’s strange to have a conversation like that where I’m practically bursting with things to say, but due to the large number of fingers, drills, suction devices, and other instruments crammed into my mouth I’m virtually muted. True torture for the (perhaps overly) verbose type of guy that I am - perhaps even worse torture than getting my teeth drilled on at 7am in the first place.
Oh well - in four months I’ll have done 15 years of dental work and be left with clean, sparkling teeth ready to face a lifetime of chomping, chewing, and grinding my food no matter what form it takes!
Topics: Daily grind, Health, Technology |
May 8th, 2007 at 9:04 am
I love that you filed this dental blog under “the Daily GRIND.” Ha ha. So why dost thou have so many teeth probs, anyways? Is it b/c of your long-gone tongue studs?
May 8th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Haha - it is a fitting category. Typically ‘The daily grind’ is for day to day posts, but in this case it literally signifies grinding. Love it!
And to more fully answer the question, I have bad teeth for a number of reasons. I got genetically bad teeth from Grandma, and didn’t take proper care of them when I was younger so now I’m plagued with fragile, easily chipped teeth.