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thewayneFriday night's dinner: leftover pizza from Thursday, plus two pieces of garlic cheese Texas toast.
Not terribly challenging food, right?
Broke a tooth. ON THE TEXAS TOAST!
My right upper 'pre-molar'.
Amazingly, it turned out that my dentist has full hours on Saturday! Even more amazing, they were able to get me in!
And the really cool part? They have a computer-controlled milling machine and MADE ME A NEW TOOTH WHILE I WAS THERE! In and out in 2.5 hours, completely done (unless a problem comes up), and total out of pocket about $375!
I was fortunate in that it didn't cause any hot/cold sensitivity, just pressure, so it wasn't too bad overnight or today before the appointment, and the entire process wasn't too bad, once I was able to wrangle my body into a better position in the chair. I have three fused vertebrae in my neck, and turning my head to the right for a prolonged period of time is a non-starter, but scootching my entire body over and lying more on my right side, that works just fine.
It was a lot less expensive proposition, and simpler solution, that what I was horrifiedly extrapolating in my mind. So that was a good thing. Really, aside from disrupting my entire day, no down side out of it: tooth is fixed, had some really good fish tacos for dinner and brought back some Al Pastor tacos for the spousal unit, picked up some stuff at Target and Sprouts, and got in quite a bit of studying in for my radio license testing over dinner.
Not terribly challenging food, right?
Broke a tooth. ON THE TEXAS TOAST!
My right upper 'pre-molar'.
Amazingly, it turned out that my dentist has full hours on Saturday! Even more amazing, they were able to get me in!
And the really cool part? They have a computer-controlled milling machine and MADE ME A NEW TOOTH WHILE I WAS THERE! In and out in 2.5 hours, completely done (unless a problem comes up), and total out of pocket about $375!
I was fortunate in that it didn't cause any hot/cold sensitivity, just pressure, so it wasn't too bad overnight or today before the appointment, and the entire process wasn't too bad, once I was able to wrangle my body into a better position in the chair. I have three fused vertebrae in my neck, and turning my head to the right for a prolonged period of time is a non-starter, but scootching my entire body over and lying more on my right side, that works just fine.
It was a lot less expensive proposition, and simpler solution, that what I was horrifiedly extrapolating in my mind. So that was a good thing. Really, aside from disrupting my entire day, no down side out of it: tooth is fixed, had some really good fish tacos for dinner and brought back some Al Pastor tacos for the spousal unit, picked up some stuff at Target and Sprouts, and got in quite a bit of studying in for my radio license testing over dinner.
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Date: 2024-07-24 03:27 pm (UTC)It was pretty awesome! It's amazing to say that this was the best dental experience of my life, but it was! They have two of these CNC dental mills in their office, so they can probably crank out approx ten teeth an hour if they need to! It was a pretty cool setup, I thought it was a 3D printer using additive printing, but they take a blank and cut it down to spec, which makes a lot more sense from a structural strength standpoint.