It seems I am a dental impossibility.
Jul. 25th, 2012 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dalesql. Went in to the dentist this afternoon for my other root canal. He took xrays of the tooth, then took another to confirm. . It seems that the roots of my tooth are "impossibly deep". Said my roots were more than 40 mm deep, and twisty. I suggested that I could go have it done at the dental school so all the baby dentists could see my impossibly deep roots.
He looked at the cavity, the x-rays, poked and prodded m teeth with tools and an ice cube,and said that doing the root canal would be extremely difficult, and since the cavity didn't seem to actually reach to the nerve, he might be able to just do a medicated filling. I'm like, whatever seems like the best course. do the filling, and see what happens in a couple months. Or the root canal. So, I said, give it a try. So he did the filling. And instead of 1300 bucks for the root canal, 300 bucks for the filling.
Which is just as well, as my car broke down last night. Turned out that the battery gave up the ghost. Over a hundred bucks for the tow, plus 118 dollars for a replacement battery. He said that mine was one of the less expensive ones. The BMW batteries he had on the shelf were almost 300 bucks.
Oh well, checking account drained back down to small numbers by these fun and games. But it could be worse, so I'm not gonna bitch and moan about it that much.
He looked at the cavity, the x-rays, poked and prodded m teeth with tools and an ice cube,and said that doing the root canal would be extremely difficult, and since the cavity didn't seem to actually reach to the nerve, he might be able to just do a medicated filling. I'm like, whatever seems like the best course. do the filling, and see what happens in a couple months. Or the root canal. So, I said, give it a try. So he did the filling. And instead of 1300 bucks for the root canal, 300 bucks for the filling.
Which is just as well, as my car broke down last night. Turned out that the battery gave up the ghost. Over a hundred bucks for the tow, plus 118 dollars for a replacement battery. He said that mine was one of the less expensive ones. The BMW batteries he had on the shelf were almost 300 bucks.
Oh well, checking account drained back down to small numbers by these fun and games. But it could be worse, so I'm not gonna bitch and moan about it that much.
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Date: 2012-07-26 02:15 am (UTC)