The Dentist :: The Verdict,
posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 by Kevin in [Consuming]OK, so I almost passed, we where flying through the teeth;
“8 missing, 7, 6 occlusal* filling, 5 missing, 4 something gobbledygook, 3 - palatal filling …..”
So I’m sitting there, trying to count the number of teeth that are whole (it’s about two) and trying to remember as many of the terms as I can, just so I can find out what my mouth is filled with, and I missed the gobbledygook, which basically means I’ve got a small chip out of that tooth.
So now I’ve got to go back, and get it ‘rebuilt’, still that doesn’t sound too bad. I don’t know yet if that will involve needles, but it doesn’t sound like it will; I’ve just got to choose the filling type, silver is ?16 while white will be around ?45 pounds1. I’m not even sure if you can see the tooth from the front yet, so I will have to go find a mirror.
*Occlusal - the top of the teeth on the back teeth (the chewing surface.)
updated :
1: sorry i seem to have suffed a tempory bout of RAS syndrome
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[...] Then I got to the dentist, and did a quick change in the toilets before getting my tooth filled, some of the more observant readers may remember that I needed a bit of one of my teeth rebuilding, and I had to choose silver or white; in the end I chose silver, on the grounds that I don’t even have the equivalent tooth on the other side of my mouth (and besides I’m not worth it, this is a self worth issue that I have running through my life, just ask Ruth about how I buy smart price yogurts when really I like Ski yoghurts). Anyway once I had told the dentist I wanted silver, she said, “oh that is good because silver is stronger and it’s quite a big filling.” . She never told me any of that last time, she made out like it was a fashion choice but it turns out it was more than that (although I suspect that if I had chosen white, she would have said, “oh good, because it’s quite near the front….”). [...]
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