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)



( dental details and a gynecological metaphor )

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).

"Your Heart Is Full of Unwashed Socks" -- picture-perfect Snape/Lupin post-war Christmas dinner, with One Big Happy Weasley Family & Tonks. *snort* Syeah, right. Purest crack.

Recap on My Life, such as it is:
Wednesday was Wednesday, and Wednesdays generally rock. This Wednesday had some twists and turns, but it was still a decent one all told.

Thursday was the supervisor-involved off-site company party. ( Read more... )

Friday involved paperwork in the morning. I did my usual paperwork out of order, as the office wasn't done with some of it yet. I finished things up, and then found myself a little at a loss for productive things to do. It was clearly time for ... THE DISK COPY PROJECT! I'd previously requisitioned a floppy drive for my shiny machine from Turbo. I employed it. The project is finished. I went home.

Friday night was painful. I've been having some issues with my teeth. ( Read more... ) I came to realize that this warranted an emergency dentist trip. I took another one of the blessed things and went to sleep.

I'd intended to wake up to the alarm on Saturday morning and check out the place that opened at 9 and took emergencies. ( Read more... ) I was working on a text-message post about how I was utterly bloody petrified when they came in and proceeded to remove the tooth from my poor face.

( It's rather scary how enthusiastic I was about the whole procedure. (Dental details.) )

I was happy enough with the experience that I made an appointment for January 6th to see about the front tooth/the rest of my teeths. I told Mama tonight that I may have actually Found a Dentist, rather than found someone who is going to be working on the teeth.

I presented my prescriptions to fill, went home, changed and collected my fudge, picked up my prescriptions, and went to the potluck with interviewers. hcolleen showed up. There was introducing to people. I had a Livewire on plenty of ice for breakfast. (I had not been thinking about food in the morning and in any case I had not been dreadfully hungry.) There was party. People had a good time. There was SANTA bingo. There was door prize fun. Puzzle Hands showed up with two, not one, guest in tow. There was mild "WTF" over same; I am expecting that someone, probably Snarky Lady, will take her aside after the fact and mention that hey, um, how about no?

Snarky Lady was having drama with someone. Specifically, one of her minions is an alpha too, and said minion has been bulling around, doing minimum effort for maximum slack, and all sorts of stuff that boil down to bad blood between the two of them, and drama, and gods know what-all. I'm trying to figure a position that involves me staying the fuck out of it and also involves Snarky Lady not bitching to me about it. I'm already trying to get into that position regarding Snarky Lady vs. the Bullpen.

There was cleaning up and going home. When Site Services got there, they were boggling at the amount of cleaning up that had been done. We did a lot. It was good. My fudge was half-eaten. There was lots of food. We got sent home with some. I brought home a lot of random. Since I was part of the set-up and take-down crew, I will be getting paid for that part of things. Yay. Overtime!

I'm feeling very all right. I'm sore, I'm groggy, and I can't wait for this to heal, but omg it feels so much better than it did with that tooth in.

( Female TMI, yay )