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Today I spent two hours in the dental chair. I had a root canal done on that molar. It wasn't exactly fun. However, it wasn't as horrible as I had expected. I must really be a tough patient because even after two numbing shots I was numb on the outside but when they got down into the tooth to the roots I could feel so they had to give me two shots in each root to numb the root so they could then take a wire file and file the root and the blood vessel out of each canal. There were also three canals instead of the two they predicted. Go figure. I can't be normal to save my life. So then they have to make each canal wider so they can disinfect it and fill it. So they drill and file over and over again. They drill down through the "apex" which I believe is the hole at the bottom of the root of the tooth that the nerve and blood vessel come up through. There is still a bit of feeling where the nerve is in my jaw so when they got down to the point where they were actually going through the root of the tooth into the jaw tissue I could feel that a bit. It was weird. So then they filled the canals up with some sort of pokey looking things, paper points, or something like that. Then they do some other stuff that they didn't explain to me and then they put another temporary filling in.

Okay so this is my third trip there and I found out today I have two more trips back. One is to drill down into the part they filled up and put in "posts" and then I have to have some sort of impressions done so that the lab can make the crown. That takes two weeks.

Thankfully, Terry took a few hours out of his day to come sit with the kids. That made me feel much better. I could not see them running wild while I was doing that. He is not very happy with me having to go back two more times. I don't know what I am going to do about that.

The dentist told me to take lots of Advil for the next two days. Since I know that Ibuprofen products cause gastrointestinal bleeding in people with history of gastroinstestinal problems I am not very comfortable with that idea. I think I will stick to Percoset for pain. I have plenty of that.

Posted by gwendolyn on April 10, 2003 at 03:55 PM