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azurelunatic) wrote2023-02-24 06:22 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2023-02-24 06:22 pm
TOOOOOOTH!!!! :D
Finally! I got my permanent crown installed on the implant!!! I'm delighted!!! I took a last selfie or two with the gap; I've been avoiding cameras mostly, and masks are great for not showing it off.
To recap the various points:
* Fall-ish 2021 cleaning that destabilized the old crown on #8, my right side upper front tooth (other dentist)
* discovery that Oh No Cannot Be Fixed Easily (this dentist)
* surgical removal (first surgeon appt)
* oss added (unsure what kind, may have happened during first appt)
* titanium socket implanted
* (nose surgery, related due to confirming my deviated septum on the surgeon's CT scan)
* implant uncovered & healing cap added (last surgeon appointment)
* (appointment with dentist, prior to this one) healing cap taken off, impression taken, healing cap hand-tightened back on
* this appointment: TOOTH!!!
More details below, cut for those who don't enjoy that kind of details. (Those visiting from a link and don't want to see, jump to comments)
Nice afternoon appointment. They'd loosened the healing cap on the previous appointment, which was basically a screw with a post that ended flat at my gumline. They'd numbed me that time and were going to numb me this time (because they'd done so last time, and that was because my gums had enthusiastically grown partly over the cap, and they'd done their best this time too) but I requested How About Not and said that the numbing hurt perhaps more than the procedure would without numbing.
I was right: no local anaesthetic was the correct choice for this time. There was a feeling of stretching, but no worse than a typical pelvic exam: it's a very personal place! Perhaps one isn't accustomed to this kind of interaction! but at no point did I go "ok so maybe I should ask for numbing now". It wasn't that kind of thing.
I very much appreciated the gauze that they unfolded in my mouth to provide a catch surface for the cap in case the dentist dropped it. (He did not drop it.)
After that he screwed in the new screw, manually. I think the new ceramic crown was on it at that point. At a certain point he stopped twisting the thing with fingers. My tongue let me know that there was a HOLE! In the back! Of the crown! at which point I went "ahhhhhh, so THAT'S how they get it tightened down!" I had been wondering. He produced a ratchet device, fitted it to the screw correctly, and resumed tightening without twisting the crown further.
X-rays, bite checks, filling, grinding, more x-rays, and finally some pictures and a mirror. HOT DAMN I HAVE A TOOTH THERE AGAIN.
Gnawing apples off the core and opening beer bottles with my teeth: out.
Sandwiches: in.
I definitely need to be careful about flossing; water flosser is great for this.
So far it's a little weird, because the only information about what I'm biting into coming from that side is pressure level. I imagine I'll adjust.
space!
We get to talk about night guards next time. I got a quote from this dentist, who said that perhaps the dentist office that takes my other insurance covers night guards (at all).
To recap the various points:
* Fall-ish 2021 cleaning that destabilized the old crown on #8, my right side upper front tooth (other dentist)
* discovery that Oh No Cannot Be Fixed Easily (this dentist)
* surgical removal (first surgeon appt)
* oss added (unsure what kind, may have happened during first appt)
* titanium socket implanted
* (nose surgery, related due to confirming my deviated septum on the surgeon's CT scan)
* implant uncovered & healing cap added (last surgeon appointment)
* (appointment with dentist, prior to this one) healing cap taken off, impression taken, healing cap hand-tightened back on
* this appointment: TOOTH!!!
More details below, cut for those who don't enjoy that kind of details. (Those visiting from a link and don't want to see, jump to comments)
Nice afternoon appointment. They'd loosened the healing cap on the previous appointment, which was basically a screw with a post that ended flat at my gumline. They'd numbed me that time and were going to numb me this time (because they'd done so last time, and that was because my gums had enthusiastically grown partly over the cap, and they'd done their best this time too) but I requested How About Not and said that the numbing hurt perhaps more than the procedure would without numbing.
I was right: no local anaesthetic was the correct choice for this time. There was a feeling of stretching, but no worse than a typical pelvic exam: it's a very personal place! Perhaps one isn't accustomed to this kind of interaction! but at no point did I go "ok so maybe I should ask for numbing now". It wasn't that kind of thing.
I very much appreciated the gauze that they unfolded in my mouth to provide a catch surface for the cap in case the dentist dropped it. (He did not drop it.)
After that he screwed in the new screw, manually. I think the new ceramic crown was on it at that point. At a certain point he stopped twisting the thing with fingers. My tongue let me know that there was a HOLE! In the back! Of the crown! at which point I went "ahhhhhh, so THAT'S how they get it tightened down!" I had been wondering. He produced a ratchet device, fitted it to the screw correctly, and resumed tightening without twisting the crown further.
X-rays, bite checks, filling, grinding, more x-rays, and finally some pictures and a mirror. HOT DAMN I HAVE A TOOTH THERE AGAIN.
Gnawing apples off the core and opening beer bottles with my teeth: out.
Sandwiches: in.
I definitely need to be careful about flossing; water flosser is great for this.
So far it's a little weird, because the only information about what I'm biting into coming from that side is pressure level. I imagine I'll adjust.
space!
We get to talk about night guards next time. I got a quote from this dentist, who said that perhaps the dentist office that takes my other insurance covers night guards (at all).
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