Painless dentistry is not a myth

How come no one told me it got so easy?  For the love of Mike, I would have gone to a dentist ten years ago if I knew it was that simple.  In, pop a shot, a little drilling, fifteen minutes getting porcelain packed in the hole, a little shaping, a handshake and I’m done.

Now I feel like a huge superpussy for not going all these years.  Luckily, as my new dentist informed me, my obsession with flossing has kept me from getting any new cavities except one in the lone wisdom tooth that apparently came in sometime over the last two decades.  He wants to pull that one anyway, so screw it.

Next step: replace all the aging metal in my mouth with nice, non-visible porcelain at 350 bucks a “quandrant.” Some of the old fillings have pulled up at teh edges and there is decay under them...no amount of brushing or flossing would have helped, they’re just old silver fillings that are beat to hell.  I suppose I should have told him that I chewed diamonds in my spare time.  It’s a habit I picked up from Chuck Norris.

Posted by JimK at 12:11 PM on January 16, 2006
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