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I went to the dentist today.
POSITIVE: One of the cavities was only pretending to be a cavity. When she started drilling, it "fell off". I do not know how this is possible, but it didn't need a filling so it's a-okay by me.
EXTRA POSITIVE: I only had to pay for one filling today, not two!
POSITIVE: I don't look like I'm got food permanently stuck between my teeth!
EXTRA POSITIVE: The four smaller ones don't have to be done all at once. In fact, I could do them one at a time if I wanted to, as I get the money. This is very handy.
NEGATIVE: The novocaine is wearing off, and OW. The cavity they DID fill was on the side of a tooth, so they had to use a wedge to force the two teeth apart so they could get at it. Now both teeth are really sore from being shoved around like that.
Overall: Positive!
But really, after the orthodontist I had, dentistry is nothing. Once, he told me he was taking a bracket off a baby tooth so it could get loose and fall out, and instead pulled the whole tooth out. It hadn't even started to get loose yet. And of course, since he was an orthodontist, not a dentist, there was no novocaine or funny gas or anything. It HURT, and I was really mad at him for lying to me abut the bracket. Jerk.
On a completely different note, lookit what I did. I still don't know where the idea came from.
POSITIVE: One of the cavities was only pretending to be a cavity. When she started drilling, it "fell off". I do not know how this is possible, but it didn't need a filling so it's a-okay by me.
EXTRA POSITIVE: I only had to pay for one filling today, not two!
POSITIVE: I don't look like I'm got food permanently stuck between my teeth!
EXTRA POSITIVE: The four smaller ones don't have to be done all at once. In fact, I could do them one at a time if I wanted to, as I get the money. This is very handy.
NEGATIVE: The novocaine is wearing off, and OW. The cavity they DID fill was on the side of a tooth, so they had to use a wedge to force the two teeth apart so they could get at it. Now both teeth are really sore from being shoved around like that.
Overall: Positive!
But really, after the orthodontist I had, dentistry is nothing. Once, he told me he was taking a bracket off a baby tooth so it could get loose and fall out, and instead pulled the whole tooth out. It hadn't even started to get loose yet. And of course, since he was an orthodontist, not a dentist, there was no novocaine or funny gas or anything. It HURT, and I was really mad at him for lying to me abut the bracket. Jerk.
On a completely different note, lookit what I did. I still don't know where the idea came from.
