-t I just figured out where your tagline comes from!
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
askye - Apr 20, 2005 8:49:01 am PDT #4621 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
Sparky1 - Apr 20, 2005 8:49:33 am PDT #4622 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
It's painful?
The dentist told me it would be like having a very bad burn on the roof of my mouth (the part where they attached the gum really didn't hurt me at all), and that was a pretty good description. A very sore spot in an inconvienent place. Kept me off solid food for a few days in the beginning and then again when the plaster fell off.
-t - Apr 20, 2005 8:56:00 am PDT #4623 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hmm. I'll pass that along to the MiL next time the subject comes up.
JZ - Apr 20, 2005 9:13:07 am PDT #4624 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Owowow. I was supposed to have the grafting thing done, but the oral surgeon decided at the last minute that my gums didn't look desperately bad just yet, so he just whittled away the frenulum, packed my lower lip with gauze and a seriously nasty gummy waxy dressing, and sent me home. If my gums still look crappy in a year I'll have to do it, but the surgeon thinks that just cutting away the connecting tissue may do the trick.
He also used the teeniest possible needle to numb me up beforehand, stopped whenever I asked him to, and let me play my own music during the whittling.
I sincerely love the dental school faculty here. They are maxillofacial ROCK GODS.
Laura - Apr 20, 2005 9:15:45 am PDT #4625 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Praying to the gummy gods that my love of waterpik keeps my gums happy.
Steph L. - Apr 20, 2005 9:16:16 am PDT #4626 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Note to self: FLOSS, YOU DUMMY!!!
ChiKat - Apr 20, 2005 9:18:57 am PDT #4627 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I had to have a deep, under gum cleaning on the top not too long ago. My dentist numbed me up for it, so it wasn't too bad. To make sure I floss regularly, I keep floss on the table next to the sofa and floss while watching tv. Of course, I live alone and don't have to gross anyone else out by my dental hygiene.
Susan W. - Apr 20, 2005 9:18:59 am PDT #4628 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Note to self: GET TO THE DENTIST THIS YEAR! I'M GIVING YOU TILL JUNE 30!
Steph L. - Apr 20, 2005 9:21:03 am PDT #4629 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
To make sure I floss regularly, I keep floss on the table next to the sofa and floss while watching tv
Good Lord. I have to look in the mirror to floss.
Sparky1 - Apr 20, 2005 9:22:02 am PDT #4630 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
I sincerely love the dental school faculty here.
JZ, I'm sure they appreciate the fact that you are able to tell them what you want. I've found that asking if I have any options very helpful for both my understanding and the dentist's understanding of just what a wuss I am.
That said, my dentist was very surprised that I have chosen to have a gold crown next month, and not a porcelain one. I have a mouth full of silver amalgum fillings, what's a little more metal to me? It's way back on a molar, so who will see it? The gold lasts longer and dentists are generally better at putting them in, too. I want my money's worth, damn it.