A visit to the dentist
Feb. 12th, 2009 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sraunI was eating some crackers & nut mix at work yesterday afternoon. When I was done, it felt like there was a chunk of peanut stuck to the top of the furthest back molar on the bottom right side. I worried at it with my tongue off and on the rest of the day, and brushed my teeth well in the evening. It was still there. :-( I had ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iraunink take a look at it, and she said it looked like a filling came loose. :-(^2
I called my dentist when the dogs woke me up this morning. They got me in at 12:30. I'd broken off a little bit of one the parts that sticks up. She smoothed it down - now it no longer bugs me! :-) - and took an X-ray. This is the tooth with the largest filling (probably by a fair margin, IIRC) - she said the next time something happens to it, it will probably need a crown. So she sent the X-ray off to my insurance company for a pre-qualification.
She's charging me for the X-ray, and nothing else. :-)
iraunink take a look at it, and she said it looked like a filling came loose. :-(^2I called my dentist when the dogs woke me up this morning. They got me in at 12:30. I'd broken off a little bit of one the parts that sticks up. She smoothed it down - now it no longer bugs me! :-) - and took an X-ray. This is the tooth with the largest filling (probably by a fair margin, IIRC) - she said the next time something happens to it, it will probably need a crown. So she sent the X-ray off to my insurance company for a pre-qualification.
She's charging me for the X-ray, and nothing else. :-)
