#dentist -

[gayerluke]

my mouth isn’t hurting too bad so far. i was finally able to remove the gauze bc the bleeding stopped. there’s currently just a big gap where the tooth was; i am getting a temporary bridge next week & then the permanent tooth goes in in 3-4 months when the bone has healed around the screw. i took a percocet & phenergan as soon as i left the pharmacy, got home & rested & eventually fell asleep for a little while. i just took an 800mg ibuprofen & ate some easy mac. i’m starving so next i may have some spaghettio’s bc i bought some for some reason. i hope the healing goes smoothly bc honestly i’m worried most about that part, i get very antsy when i have a Thing in my mouth that my tongue won’t stay away from.

[aurazoo]

im getting a tooth pulled in the morning and im seriously terrified. i cant stop thinking about it and i really really really wish i didnt have to do it. i hope it goes well. i hope i dont feel too bad afterwards (i have to work tomorrow night too)

the last time i did it, it wasnt as bad as i expected, but i am still very afraid. ive always been super terrified of the dentist, and of my own teeth in general. 

heres hoping i dont have a panic attack while its happening 

[meeresbande]

some good news from our life:

- cn disordered eating mention and dentist stuff -

we’re back on track with eating enough! Had a week or so of relapsing back into undereating, but yeah, back on track and eating enough again and it seems doable for the future, too!

we went to the dentist today and it was way less problematic (or expensive) than we thought, our tooth wasn’t in nearly as bad a shape as it had seemed from the x-ray, we don’t need any more dentist’s appointments for now!

- cn more details on dentist stuff -

so on the x-ray it had looked as though our wisdom tooth had a looot of caries and were all “mush” under the crown - turns out, it was just air! There was barely any caries at all! The crown just wasn’t in properly (it was glued in a way so it didn’t wobble, though)! lmao I walked around with that for 6 years?! Anyway, so so relieved that it wasn’t really bad at all! No need for any more painful or expensive treatment, just a checkup in november (unless we have any problems in the meantime).

also we’re doing a bit better wrt brushing teeth and flossing but we’re hesitant to celebrate this yet, because we need to make it a lasting habit and not a thing we do for one week and then fall back into not brushing enough…

also since we clench/gnash/grind our teeth a lot, we baught a teething ring (meant for babies) to have something to bite down on without hurting our teeth! We can’t wait until it arrives in the mail! We’re actually really happy to have thought of this lmao it seems like such a logical thing to do, can’t believe we or our therapist hadn’t thought of this before!

[gayvpd]

i have to have my wisdom teeth removed dsfghkjsd

[meeresfem]

oh also haha adventures in social anxiety: agreed to have our dentist take a picture of us for their records (this is so weird I have never heard of that being done before?) even though we really don’t want that, then agreed to them doing an x-ray without at least making sure it’s really necessary (which we’d normally want to ask at least but they were just like “we’re doing an x-ray” and not “are you ok with being x-rayed?”. they also said they’d do another x-ray next time.) and i hate being like this. we hate agreeing to things and letting people do things that we don’t want just because it would be awkward to object. we expect them to sneer and laugh at us for being so childish if we were to object. how  childish to want to make one’s own decisions, protect one’s own privacy or health or otherwise one’s own interests (in ways that don’t even hurt others).

[stevonnie-archive]

what is up gamers this is nim stevonnie back at it with my bi-annual visit to the dentist live blog. I just walked a mile and a half to get here and I gotta do it again to get home so uh, that kinda sucks, but I'm about to get a sick tooth cleaning uh... yeah... probably gonna be pretty epic.

[gayerluke]

i’m trying to learn about this dental procedure & starting to black out while i read it so that’s a great sign