[Magdalen] Dental Deal.

[Jay Weigel]

My dentist at least sits me up in between......he's young and very nice.
There are 4 others in the practice but he's the only one I will let touch
me.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> I had a lovely morning yesterday at the local endodontist office for
> a root canal on a posterior left upper molar.
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> What I thought would be an hour long visit turned out to take nearly
> three hours, during which time, I was lying on the rather  uncomfortable
> dental chair with my head actually lower than the rest of my supine
> body, and with enough dental paraphernalia in my mouth to fill a  standard
> transpacific container.  There was additional stuff - if you can  believe
> it -
> in my mouth for repeated x-rays that were overly frequent.  How  they
> expect elderly persons to put up with this is beyond me.
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> This lengthy appointment was largely because the orthodontist was
> running three other rooms/patients at the same time, and he would
> come into my room, do a little drilling, look at the x-rays, and then
> be off to the next room.
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> When he was drilling the affected tooth, he kept muttering, "I'm
> struggling to get all the way back here, Doc," meaning, I guess
> that this was a rear molar.  However, I still have my wisdom  teeth,
> and I would wonder what he would do with a procedure on one of
> them.
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> Then home, and the local anesthetic wore off.  Aspirin to the  rescue.
> I refuse to struggle with the side effects of the opioids.
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> I'm talking and chewing out of the right side of my mouth for awhile.
> Actually, I'm even making an attempt to keep my mouth shut for a
> change.
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> David Strang.
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