Comments on: Tomorrow morning I have dental surgery

By: Susanamantha

Susanamantha — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 21:13:55 +0000

My dentist of 45 years is nearing total retirement. He first reduced his work week to 4 days, then 3, then, two, then just half days. I now see his replacement, a child, by the look of him. It’s was reassuring to have a dentist, a decade older than I. I always assumed he had seen and treated nearly every dental issue sub sole.

I will miss “Old Faithful.”

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:57:43 +0000

Michael F. Adams:

Ooops, sorry!

By: Michael F Adams

Michael F Adams — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:26:46 +0000

Thanks, Neo, but you deleted the one with the spelling errors/typos correcte. :0)

By: om

om — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:58:06 +0000

Froggy:

So when a dentist detects oral cancer does that make their work acceptable in your eyes or their expenses justified, since it is after all, all about your particular field of medicine? Answer if you wish, when you wake up.

By: Frog

Frog — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 19:12:15 +0000

Gary DG
Yawn.

By: Matt Harris

Matt Harris — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 14:49:23 +0000

My sympathies – I have spent too much time at The House of Pain and feel for those who have to go there.

By: Gary D. G.

Gary D. G. — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:08:23 +0000

@Frog

“Perhaps you are a dentist practicing subterfuge?”
I beg your pardon, but would you mind telling me what you’re talking about.
Am I taking umbrage; I believe so. And I’ll ask you to avoid ad hominems, if you can.

Having been an endodontist in (it seems) another lifetime, I can tell you, you have no idea of a endontist’s life. If you like, I’ll put you in touch with my wife. She’ll be more than happy to tell you about it – if you have a couple of days.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:48:57 +0000

Good luck! Keep on smiling!!

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 07:27:15 +0000

Good Luck, Neo!

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 06:27:32 +0000

I had a lot dental work done as a teenager- I had teeth too big for my mouth, and thus badly crooked. When I was 12, I had four premolars removed surgically, and then wore braces for two years to straighten the remaining teeth. After the braces came off at age 14, I had the wisdom teeth removed because they were coming in sideways.

However, on the plus side, I had excellent nutrition growing up, and I took reasonably good care with my teeth for a child and adolescent (thanks, Mom!). I began taking better care of them as an adult, but I did have a problem a couple of years back that was the result of badly chipped lower incisor from an accident that happened just before I got the braces at age 12- 37 years earlier. I probably should have had the tooth root-canaled and fitted with a post and crown, but I chose to live with the chipped tooth. Eventually, the enamel on the top wore down into the dentin. I ended up win an abcess under the incisor and the adjacent canine, and had to have both teeth root-canaled and crowned.

Other than some thinning on the upper incisors, though, my teeth are great, and I have seen close up the issues bad teeth can have in my parents.