O the Irony
After writing about wanting to minimize trips to Reno while using the Rolling Stone, I was reminded that I had a dentist appointment in Reno this afternoon.
I had bitten the bullet and admitted that I was not going to be able to stick with my dentist in Redwood Shores and needed to establish a new dentist. For convenience, I booked with the same dentist we found for Lisa.
I haven't had an exam since pre-pandemic and so they were starting from scratch. After the exam, about which more in a moment, I had my teeth cleaned for the first time in several years. It was not as bad as I feared, but there was certainly a lot of build up to be scraped off my teeth. The dental hygienist drew less blood than I expected.
The result of the exam is that two of my gold crowns are gapping at the gum-line, so the recommendation is to remove them, clean everything out, and redo them. My dental coverage doesn't have a huge allowance for repairs like this, so they recommended that I do one tooth in December, then the other in January, taking advantage of the annual allowance resetting at the first of the year. Along with my Healthcare Savings Account, this make sense. It does, however, mean I'm making yet another trip to Reno this coming week, as they have an opening at 11 AM on Thursday. I should be able to have the crown removed and the other work including the temporary crown set with enough time for me to get back to Fernley for my 3 PM chiropractic treatment. A few days later I will have to go back to have the permanent crown installed, and then we'll do it all again in January.
I'll need to take a half day off from work to make that 11 AM appointment; however, Nevada manadated a special limited sick leave on top of my existing PTO, and while it accumulates much more slowly than PTO, I currently have more of it on account than PTO after China, Los Angeles, and Providence, so that's what I'll use on Thursday.
I had bitten the bullet and admitted that I was not going to be able to stick with my dentist in Redwood Shores and needed to establish a new dentist. For convenience, I booked with the same dentist we found for Lisa.
I haven't had an exam since pre-pandemic and so they were starting from scratch. After the exam, about which more in a moment, I had my teeth cleaned for the first time in several years. It was not as bad as I feared, but there was certainly a lot of build up to be scraped off my teeth. The dental hygienist drew less blood than I expected.
The result of the exam is that two of my gold crowns are gapping at the gum-line, so the recommendation is to remove them, clean everything out, and redo them. My dental coverage doesn't have a huge allowance for repairs like this, so they recommended that I do one tooth in December, then the other in January, taking advantage of the annual allowance resetting at the first of the year. Along with my Healthcare Savings Account, this make sense. It does, however, mean I'm making yet another trip to Reno this coming week, as they have an opening at 11 AM on Thursday. I should be able to have the crown removed and the other work including the temporary crown set with enough time for me to get back to Fernley for my 3 PM chiropractic treatment. A few days later I will have to go back to have the permanent crown installed, and then we'll do it all again in January.
I'll need to take a half day off from work to make that 11 AM appointment; however, Nevada manadated a special limited sick leave on top of my existing PTO, and while it accumulates much more slowly than PTO, I currently have more of it on account than PTO after China, Los Angeles, and Providence, so that's what I'll use on Thursday.