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sarameg - Aug 20, 2007 4:18:01 pm PDT #5738 of 10001

See, my dentists are all "and once we do all this freaking work, you can treat yourself to a whitening!" and I'm pretty much "and once we do all this freaking work, we'll have wrung out my insurance like a damp rag and pillaged my checking and MRA and I'm only gonna want to see you for routine maintenance and prevention! Screw that!" Seriously, I'll have had 4 appointments in 2 months? I'm looking forward to seeing them only every 6 months.

I do need to quiz them on the temp crown thing. I can't recall what their time lag was. If there's anything to do to minimize it, I will.

megan walker - Aug 20, 2007 4:33:55 pm PDT #5739 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

The reason I did the whitening now was because the crown is one of my front teeth and (as I understand it) whitening doesn't work on crowns (and the whitening changed the shade by a number of degrees). So it was sort of now or never. The whitening I did wasn't at all covered by insurance, but there was a special and it was only $300, which was way less than I thought it would be to have something that lasts a few years. Compared to the $600 I'm putting toward the rest of the work, it seemed like a steal!

sarameg - Aug 20, 2007 4:43:13 pm PDT #5740 of 10001

Yeah, that makes sense. All my work is on the molars and my smile ain't a Julia Roberts kind. I could give a crap what color they are as long as they are whole and functional.

Connie Neil - Aug 20, 2007 4:53:42 pm PDT #5741 of 10001
brillig

I had to wait two weeks for my permanent crown, and yeah, the temp hurt.

Sue - Aug 20, 2007 4:55:01 pm PDT #5742 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I had temporary crowns on my back molars twice, and I had no problems with them. I was always careful for the first day or so, but then I woudl kine of forget about them.

sarameg - Aug 20, 2007 4:55:49 pm PDT #5743 of 10001

Of course, now I am poking one of my problem/fixed teeth and getting an electric twinge, so I'm going to have to deal with that on top of the rightside repairs tomorrow.

I should have never said anything!

megan walker - Aug 20, 2007 5:01:59 pm PDT #5744 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Well now I'm super paranoid about eating anything that might break it. The fact that "teeth falling out" was my anxiety dream of choice while younger doesn't help things one bit.

sarameg - Aug 20, 2007 5:05:19 pm PDT #5745 of 10001

Oh, I know those dreams. Suck.

eta: teeth and the whole fertility bullshit are high on my evolution shitlist.

Frankenbuddha - Aug 20, 2007 5:16:57 pm PDT #5746 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I will always love billytea for coining "Connecticutie." First abbreviation for Connecticut natives I'd ever heard that didn't sound ridiculous.

I'm not EVEN going to repeat the one I've heard. Possibly not ridiculous, but patently offensive on any number of levels.

Lee - Aug 20, 2007 5:18:39 pm PDT #5747 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

How were people's Mondays?

Mine was surprisingly Wednesday like, especially in the afternoon.

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