What's going on y'all? How's it going? I know last time I didn't have anything too exciting to talk about, but this time I've got something interesting I believe. Let me know if you think so.
So, today I went to the dentist. I was having some pain in a lower right molar. I knew I was going to have a root canal, but they still suck. I knew what to expect, but I definitely had some surprises today. First, my root canal took nearly 5 hours! I had to get the anesthesia twice. At the very beginning of the appointment I got a shot and I didn't go completely numb, so they had to double the dosage. About two hours in I could start feeling the drilling, so I told them and they put more anesthesia in. I went numb again, but for the last hour of the procedure I could feel the drilling and it was getting progressively more painful. I told the oral surgeon, but they just said it was almost done and they wouldn't reanesthize me.
It was definitely one of the worse moments of my oral hygeine life. But, that's not quite all that happened. I have to go to a specialist sometime next month, and they are going to go in and scrape away some of the bone in my mouth so they can put a crown in. So much damn oral surgery! Fuck this. I don't really mind the whole root canal thing, but if I could have gotten it all done in one day, I would have really appreciated that. I am going to need 3 different appointments. I'm pretty unhappy about this right now. I can't even open my mouth more than a quarter of the way because I'm so sore.
"How long is it going to take? I have class at 12:30"
"This is going to take about an hour and a half. Two hours max."
That's an actual quote from one of the dental assistants. What she should have said is; "The anesthesia is going to wear off in 2 hours max and then there will be a lot of pain."
But, oh well... I just wanted to rant about this because I have been stewing about it pretty much all day. I figured I should write about it, and I think this is pretty fucked up. What do you guys think?
Ramblin' Sean
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