Mind the gap
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI know it’s not yet quite a fortnight since my visit to the dentist that culminated in a frozen mouth and a hole where a tooth used to be, but I had hoped that what, ten days on, the gum would be a little tougher where it’s grown back over the gap.
Admittedly the other space where I had a tooth pulled is thirty years old and the shape of the gum there has changed so that you’d never know there was a tooth ever there other than as signified by the gap. The recent pulling, however, is far from that stage. The gum is healing and has closed over the place the tooth root used to be, but it is still obviously tooth root shaped and tender. I still have to do most of my chewing on the other side of my mouth and I still have to be a little careful when I attack my gnashers with the tooth brush.
Last night I stabbed the gum with, of all things, a sliver of crust from some garlic bread and crivens, but it hurt. It drew blood, too, though that stopped quickly. The point is, it’s still tender and sore and no amount of antiseptic mouth wash is toughening it up. I think that I shall have to resort to sluicing my mouth with warm, salty water. If that doesn’t loosen the cookies, nothing will.
I hate dentistry.
Really and truly. With a vengeance.
Admittedly the other space where I had a tooth pulled is thirty years old and the shape of the gum there has changed so that you’d never know there was a tooth ever there other than as signified by the gap. The recent pulling, however, is far from that stage. The gum is healing and has closed over the place the tooth root used to be, but it is still obviously tooth root shaped and tender. I still have to do most of my chewing on the other side of my mouth and I still have to be a little careful when I attack my gnashers with the tooth brush.
Last night I stabbed the gum with, of all things, a sliver of crust from some garlic bread and crivens, but it hurt. It drew blood, too, though that stopped quickly. The point is, it’s still tender and sore and no amount of antiseptic mouth wash is toughening it up. I think that I shall have to resort to sluicing my mouth with warm, salty water. If that doesn’t loosen the cookies, nothing will.
I hate dentistry.
Really and truly. With a vengeance.