Aight so I had a root canal and now they are fitting a crown onto it. It's taking weeks, months. Yo here's the thing, I never knew root canals were what they actually are. My dude, it's basically getting a fake tooth. I had no idea. So they shaved down, burned down my beautiful tooth! I didn't even know. But my tooth is being extremely problematic. I'm a bitter cause I had corrective jaw surgery just 3 years ago and to have to lose an important tooth is absolutely bullshit to me. I went through a lot for my teeth and kept them healthy, I brush more than once a day. I cannot believe my tooth still rotted.
Here's the problem. I have a condition known as tongue thrust. Yeah it's common... Among children. But some of us don't out grow it. And it's such a terrible thing to have. It shifts your teeth out as your tongue applies too much pressure on the teeth due to improper swallowing technique. So during growth as a child, my tongue applied forward pressure and thus my face grew totally the wrong way. I essentially have a damaged face. Features that aren't mine but are of this tongue thrust. So my face is longer, my lower jaw is underdeveloped, my eyes are droopy looking or tired/high. Just derpy. Picture a mouth breather. That's kinda what it looks like. I mean I had jaw surgery to fix up my jaws as best as we could. It doesn't fix everything and I still of course have a tongue thrust. It shifts my teeth still as I worried it would. I'm told to wear my retainer 24/7. Obviously I cannot do that as I eat and whatnot. So I wear it at nights. I had my braces removed 3 years ago. My teeth were fucking perfect. But now the tongue thrust has shifted my teeth into wonky bullshit. It's subtle. But enough to cause problems. The tooth I needed a root canal on is problematic because there's a gap between that tooth and the one next to it. Tongue thrust created a gap where food keeps getting stuck, trapped and I'm telling you it's extremely impossible to get it out. Well, my gums keep getting infected there. The tooth had a cavity and I even had it filled. Guess what, it still kept infected. Now I had a root canal. Guess what? It's STILL infected! Yea. It's really bullshit dude. I've been in pain for months and months and months. I think a year now even. I hate it. Anyways, I bummed. Tongue thrust is a curse that has neverending problems. They're pretty serious. I don't like the idea of losing a tooth and having a fake one put in. I don't know why they call it a root canal. They should really call it getting a fake tooth. They shave away your tooth almost to a knub and then put on a crown, a fake tooth. It's totally weird and I hate that. I'm sort of picky and particular when it comes to these things and I just want a natural healthy tooth. Not a fake one in my mouth. But what can you do at this point. I've got a fake tooth now. It also doesn't change color, it'll stay whatever color they picked. Ahhh. Seems so unnatural to me.
