I went there expecting to have a temporary crown put on and a cast made for the final crown but when the dentist examined the tooth she said that the tooth was in such good shape that she did not know if she wanted to grind off so much good tooth to put a crown on and than she gave me two other options. One was a tooth inlay which was as expensive as a crown and the second was to just rebuild the tooth for a couple hundred dollars.
She said that the rebuild would probably last ten years or so and that since it was about five times cheaper than the other two options I could have it replace several times and still be cheaper than the others.
So I wound up having my tooth rebuilt today, and I did not get out of the dentist office until after 1100. After two and a half hours in the chair I was ready to go home and rest as my jaw was starting to ache. So when I got home I took several pain pills and waited for my jaw to start feeling better.
Kathleen had her dentist appointment shortly after I got back so she took off and when she left I made myself some lunch and read the mail. She was gone for quite a while and when she did come back she said that she also needed to have a crown and a couple fillings.
So it looks like it is going to be an expensive month or so for the dentist visits. That is the one thing that I did not receive in my retirement package from Boeing, and while everything else is really good there was no dental coverage available as a retiree. While I was working there I had really good coverage, and I miss that.
After a while I got really sleepy so I went upstairs and took a nap; I woke up when Kathleen came in and I guess was trying to wake me up. I was still pretty groggy, but awake just enough that I could not get back to sleep, so I got up and by now the pain was a lot worse than when I had first taken the pain pills, so I took a few more and while it is now sore again is is not as bad as it was earlier.
I think it is from having to have my mouth open so wide and so long while the dentist worked on my molar although some of it I am sure is from the actual work done on the tooth itself.
Anyway, when I got up and went downstairs Stan had finished the tile and left; he will not be back until Monday to do the grouting of the floor and walls. So here is a picture of all the tile in place to give you an idea of what it will look like, minus the grout.
For dinner tonight Kathleen heated up some pre-cooked lentils fro Trader Joe's and added some ham, onion and potato and then made a soup out of it. It was really good and soft enough that it did not bother my jaw or tooth.
Well, I think that I need to publish this as I am starting to get really tired again and that would just allow me to ramble on endlessly.
4 comments:
That soup sounds so yummy! Are you still having snow? We are buried. I think we may break a record this year. That is one record I definitely do not want to break!!
Hope your tooth feels better today.
The soup was really good; I think most of the things we have tried from Trader Joe's has been pretty good tasting.
No more snow for now, in fact since this weekend it has been in the mid to upper fifties. One night it went from the thirties in the daytime to mid forties during the night.
All of our snow has melted and yesterday the street sweepers came by to sweep up the gravel that they put down on the roads here.
It was not my tooth that was bothering me as much as the area around the tooth and my mouth in general from all the work that the dentist did on it yesterday. But yes it does feel much better, it is still tender to the touch but so much better than yesterday.
Thanks for asking! How is everything at your place, except for the snow?
We don't have dental insurance either and next month we are going to have to pay over $600 to have Natalie's extra tooth removed by an oral surgeon...wowza!
I think that our total dental bill will be over two thousand dollars!!!
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