as someone going in for a crown (for the first time) in 11 days, sarameg's descriptions are not filling me with glee.

I used to stock up on Feb 15 discount Russel Stover and Whitman chocolates back before I discovered dark chocolate and when See's was on the other side of the country (we lived on the East Coast...my grandmother got a 2 lb box delivered every xmas but it was such a treat, I only got one piece a year!). Now that I can get See's at the mall and Green and Black at the grocery store....Yeah, guess I'm a chocolate snob now that I can afford to be.

Read it all and cared about it, but didn't meara, so hugz and/or good vibes to all.

Special shoutout to JZ's book idea, which I hope will become a book series.

I wish I had a snowday. Instead I have a sub and having to go to the district offices tomorrow day, which means that, tonight, which are parent teacher conferences, I am scrambling like mad to make sure I have sub plans.

My French-Canadian heritage, but not French speaking, stepmother said "close the light" instead of "turn off the light."

There are so many of these in my daily life since almost all of my students speak Spanish as their first language. The one I can think of right now is when kids are told to put something away they will talk about disappearing it.

I also hear "drink pills" and "volume up" the radio.

le nubian, I won't lie, it's not fun, but for all my whining...ok, it isn't fun. But unlike when I had 7 extractions, I don't hate my dentist after.

Also, does your dentist do crowns in house same-day? If not, it'll be a two visit process: one to get a mold and do a buildup and put in a temp. That's really the hard part. Second will be the fitting and less traumatic- pretty much just popping off the temp and glueing in the perm.

Mine has this awesome tech in which they image the tooth and then make adjustments so that it can be better than the original tooth (getting rid of pits and snags and where I had gaps that shit always got stuck in) and send it off to this machine: [link] which carves it out of a block while you wait. Took about 10 minutes of carving per crown. After an hour of them tweaking the crowns on the computer (3D! Rotation!) So just one visit for me.

Last time I waited in the waiting room while they did this, but this time, I was sleepy (sudafed) so asked if I could just nap in the chair. So I ended up watching them do all the computer stuff. Cool imagining and tweaking and it was very geeky.

as someone going in for a crown (for the first time) in 11 days, sarameg's descriptions are not filling me with glee.

Don't worry, it's not necessarily going to be that rough. My mom just had 5 done and wasn't that bothered by it. My own was only really tender for a day or so, and there wasn't any scabbing. (The temporary crown does feel kind of weird, but when they replace it with the permanent one it feels just like your regular teeth.)

it'll be a two visit process: one to get a mold and do a buildup and put in a temp. That's really the hard part.

WTF.

I gotta have 2 visits for this shit?

oh hell no.

Matt,

I appreciate the reassurance. It is not working.

They'll probably offer gas to calm you down - take it and you won't be worried at all during the procedure.