Then its probably my dentist. He’s a quack. I went for my last visit today. And for that I’m glad. Its not that I think he’s a bad dentist but there are just some things that I feel could be improved on.
To recap my dental experience-first, I had a difficult time getting in for an appointment once I actually had dental insurance. Eventually, he’d switch days that he was in Carlisle and Tuesdays would work. Everyone at the office was super nice and worked with me to get an appointment.
The first time I went it was just to get my teeth cleaned. I figured that I’d have some x-rays taken and they would find that one of my baby teeth had a huge gapping cavity in it which was the source of my dental pain. Then they’d fill it and I’d be on my way. That didn’t happen. I got my teeth handscaled and polished. None of that flossing business. Which actually made me happy because I can’t deal with that. And then I was to come back the next week and get two teeth filled. Sure.
The next week, I went back and two teeth were filled. No x-rays were taken. I really hated getting the injections to numb the area. And the drilling hurt too! Especially when they did the big cavity next to my dental implant. I also had to fight to get some white fillings because he wanted to use metal. BUT they were in the front! They would show! Then I was to go back the week after-another filling. And then today for another filling, well two on the same tooth-finally the baby tooth. You would think that x-rays of a deciduous tooth that is 20 years overdue for falling out with a giant hole in it already would be a prime candidate for x-rays. And you’d be mistaken. I went in there confident that I would tell him to x-ray it but I didn’t. He’s a doctor too and knows his job without someone telling him how to do it. I know I hate that. So I didn’t. Somehow I feel the standard of care isn’t being practiced. So now my teeth are filled and I don’t really need to go back for several months…not that I’m going back at all. I’m finding a different dentist. One that will take x-rays. One that will not take out end of the day aggression on the patient. One that will tell the patient in advance how many cavities that need to be filled.
Anyway, today in addition to the dentist, I did my normal Tuesday routine. It consists of staying in bed too long, eating something, doing a chore (i.e. all the dishes), cooking something (a cherry crisp that didn’t crisp and ended up with butter oozing out), laundry, going to the bank and shopping. I bought the dogs some new toys which they are currently enjoying. I went to Kohl’s and couldn’t find Joe a Valentine’s gift. I don’t have any good ideas. I had good ideas for Christmas and now they are gone. So I bought myself a necklace and a purse. Its purple. I think I might be getting into having lots of purses again. In high school, I had tons of purses. In college, I sort of got out of that. Now even though I don’t carry a purse to work, I’m finding myself with more and more purses. Oh well.
Yesterday, Joe eventually got home and at 10pm we went to Applebee’s for some dessert. Joe got some slammers and I had dessert. It was sort of close to closing but we weren’t the only ones there. Our waitress wasn’t very good. We watched the MU KU game.
Its very windy and cold today. I’m not looking forward to tomorrow morning. Hopefully, the wind will have at least died down.
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