Yeah so, remember how I got Invisalign and I was all in love with my teeth?
(don’t remember? Read here)
Guess what?
Not so much anymore.
I decided about a week after I got my Invisalgn it was also time for me to go in to get a cleaning. So I went to see my regular dentist (Not Dr. Fischer my super Invisalign doc), and to my SHOCK it was discovered I had 4 cavities. FOUR CAVITIES. Up to that day I had…NONE. So in one year my teeth have basically fallen apart.
No problem I think and I say go ahead and fill em in doc! And the first one was deep, so deep that he said it need a root canal. A FRICKIN ROOT CANAL. I may or may not have cried. Like a lot. Turns out this pillar of strength can not handle dental work. So he shot me up with magic numbing stuff, only it didn’t work and he had to shoot me 3 times during the procedure…one of those was shooting my actual NERVE itself. Yeah. Good times. He says he can’t finish since it is INFECTED. And I needed to come back in a few days. So I came back and he did the same damn thing all over again, and after 2 hours tells me ‘You need a specialist’. I went straight over to the specialist. More shots, more drilling MORE PAIN and he has the frickin nerve tells me HE CAN’T FINISH EITHER to come back in a few days too. I didn’t know whether to cry or slap him. I did neither, until I paid my bills for the day…over $1200 bucks. Then I cried. I cried a lot. There goes Christmas.
Oh and he throws out as I am leaving his office “no chewing for a few days”.There goes my Turkey Day too.
On top of all this? I received this little composite bumps this week on my teeth to help give my Invisalign some ‘traction’ and I gotta tell you this makes the Invisalign a bitch to get on and off. I mean its not just hard…IT HURTS. And now with me needing a whole new tooth? It means the Invisalign treatment I was so thrilled about? Might have to be given up all together. They already made all my aligners…and when the new tooth is finished…they won’t fit. I was told they can re-make them…so I am hoping they will. I was dreaming about perfect teeth and even in the short time I have been wearing them…they have ALREADY MOVED. It’s freaky good how those things work.
So I am sittin here hopped up on Vicodin eating mashed potatoes (thanks to my husband who takes really good care of me) and shocked that I went from awesome teeth to screwed up teeth over night.
It doesn’t help that I have a birthday next week.
I suppose I should start pricing out things like hip replacements and arthritis medicine. Clearly the teeth are the first to go right?
On a funny side (there is always a funny side)….
I put my iPod on shuffle while getting treatment today…and this was the order of the songs.
Hate this Place…..Goo Goo Dolls
I Gotta Feeling….Blackeyed Peas
Novocaine for the Soul……Eels
Bleeding Love……Leona Lewis
In Repair………John Mayer
Smile ….Lily Allen
Be OK….Ingrid Michaelson
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Oh, no!! That’s horrible news. I’m sorry you had to go through all that pain and hassle. I hope writing it all out made you feel a smidge better. Always does for me. And your husband knows the secret to Thanksgiving meals – mashed potatoes are the best part anyways!
Hey! At least there’s still DUMONT! Gonna be windy, dusty, and freezing cold!( literally- freezing) YEA! Can’t wait.
PS Four cavities in 38 years? Not bad!
I had that many by the time I was 6.
22 root canals, two bridges,gum surgery, and 8 veneers later, my dentist bills are still bigger than my house payment!
Maybe the invisilines will magically still fit after you get the crown.
Oh no!! My teeth are crap. I had to get one root canal under the same circumstances… they were doing a cavity, couldn’t finish then sent me to the root canal guy. Brad saved my message for like a year on my phone. It was me sobbing telling him I had a to get a “woot” canal with my numbed up lip-lisp.
At least you can’t eat a crazy amount of food today. You might stay skinny over the holidays!
If you are looking for a new dentist we still go to the one I grew up with in Placentia. He is AEWSOME. Not shister-y.
Oh Marcy, so bummed for you. If it makes you feel any better — it won’t — I have a bad cold and thought I was dying (sort of really not kidding here) Tuesday. So we can be roommates at the Sunny Acres Sanitorium.
Enjoy the mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie. And eggnog. And wine. And more wine. And spike it all in a blender with a straw. :)
Icky!! Poor you. I have a theory about dentists (since on my last visit mine told me that she wants to take my wisdom teeth out because they “may get cavities one day”)…..they f’ing suck.
I guess you’re sucking right now too, but for different reasons. I hope you stocked up on Ensure <3