Dental update
Nov. 28th, 2008 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hildy89Oh, yes, I nearly the other ongoing drama for November and December. Monday was the second half of the root canal treatment, for which I say thank god for painkillers, because that hurt a bit more than the first half. Apparently my roots are very long and curved, making it doubly difficult to get out. *winces*
I've also had two visits with a TMJ doctor up in Bethesda. Lots of fun navigating strange parts of Maryland and bus routes I don't know. *clings to familiar haunts* He took a tomograph of my jaw. To our great surprise, there doesn't appear to be any bone damage. What happened is my jaw shoved a little forward, so it's out of the socket it's supposed to reside in. So I have a brand new mouth guard, since the old one couldn't cut it. And he wants me back in a few weeks, so guess who gets to do a temporary crown and then the following day chat with the TMJ dentist again? *headdesks* It's feels like a carousel of dentists here.
Couple of amusing things: I was the fourth person they'd seen with my given name that day. I hadn't realized it was that common of a name.
Elderly Chinese couple came in for a checkup. They'd just been to Shanghai for the first time in three years. Apparently they're so completely Westernized now. They could barely understand all the language changes with the new slang.
And this will amuse![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pinkpolarity since we discussed accents once: My dentist asked me where I was from and I said Virginia and he stared at me. To his ear I had no accent, certainly not one he associated with Virginia. Then at my second appointment, I used some turn of phrase that amused him (and me). "That's Philly talk" he commented. My grandfather is from Philly and my mother grew up outside there. Product of your backgrounds, yeah, right.
I've also had two visits with a TMJ doctor up in Bethesda. Lots of fun navigating strange parts of Maryland and bus routes I don't know. *clings to familiar haunts* He took a tomograph of my jaw. To our great surprise, there doesn't appear to be any bone damage. What happened is my jaw shoved a little forward, so it's out of the socket it's supposed to reside in. So I have a brand new mouth guard, since the old one couldn't cut it. And he wants me back in a few weeks, so guess who gets to do a temporary crown and then the following day chat with the TMJ dentist again? *headdesks* It's feels like a carousel of dentists here.
Couple of amusing things: I was the fourth person they'd seen with my given name that day. I hadn't realized it was that common of a name.
Elderly Chinese couple came in for a checkup. They'd just been to Shanghai for the first time in three years. Apparently they're so completely Westernized now. They could barely understand all the language changes with the new slang.
And this will amuse
pinkpolarity since we discussed accents once: My dentist asked me where I was from and I said Virginia and he stared at me. To his ear I had no accent, certainly not one he associated with Virginia. Then at my second appointment, I used some turn of phrase that amused him (and me). "That's Philly talk" he commented. My grandfather is from Philly and my mother grew up outside there. Product of your backgrounds, yeah, right.
