The Tooth Fairy Doesn't Visit Grownups :(
Aside from all that stuff I lost in Toronto when my back broke open without my awareness, there is one other thing I lost just before leaving Toronto:
another tooth. yeah!
I knew it was going to happen. It's been increasingly loose over the past few months and it was rediculously wiggly and annoying over the past week or so. I'm almost glad it's gone. I have a huge gaping hole (to add to the hole that was beside it from the other tooth I lost almost a year and a half ago) but it's easier to eat without a loose tooth painfully getting in your way every time you bite something.
Like the tooth beside it, it didn't fall out entirely but just broke off at the base. It's going to be a pain to extract (think wisdom tooth surgery)
It's a really sad thing to loose that tooth after all we've been through together. My eye-teeth didn't grow into the gum but stayed in the palette, so when I was about 14, I had to have surgery on my palette. They uncovered the tooth, put a brace on it, and after a long period of bleeding, repeat stitches etc the palette finally healed enough and they began to painfully pull the tooth through the palette bone - millimetre by millimetre, month by month.
And now it's gone. All that pain for nothing.
I had a root canal on it a few years ago, and more fillings later on. Out of my own pocket I had over $1000 of work done on it (not counting the surgery and brace work). And that's $1000 in the garbage. I would have been better off if they'd left the darn tooth in the palette. (the other eye tooth is faring a bit better, but it's had a root canal and is in need of some patch-up fillings so it will likely have to go eventually)
I will miss the uniqueness of that tooth too. When it came in, it came in backwards. The front of the tooth is inside, and the curved back part was what was visible from the front. Although not even my orthodontist noticed this fact until I pointed it out, to me it was just another mutation in my body, and one that I actually found kind of cool.
I saved the tooth (hey if you invested $1000 in something you wouldn't be too quick to part with it either). But the tooth fairy didn't come. I think she should have put $20,000 under my pillow for my tooth replacements - or at least $250 for the extraction that still remains to be done on the other half of that tooth.
"All I want for Cwiss-mas is my two fwont teefs"... and the rest of them would be nice too.
another tooth. yeah!
I knew it was going to happen. It's been increasingly loose over the past few months and it was rediculously wiggly and annoying over the past week or so. I'm almost glad it's gone. I have a huge gaping hole (to add to the hole that was beside it from the other tooth I lost almost a year and a half ago) but it's easier to eat without a loose tooth painfully getting in your way every time you bite something.
Like the tooth beside it, it didn't fall out entirely but just broke off at the base. It's going to be a pain to extract (think wisdom tooth surgery)
It's a really sad thing to loose that tooth after all we've been through together. My eye-teeth didn't grow into the gum but stayed in the palette, so when I was about 14, I had to have surgery on my palette. They uncovered the tooth, put a brace on it, and after a long period of bleeding, repeat stitches etc the palette finally healed enough and they began to painfully pull the tooth through the palette bone - millimetre by millimetre, month by month.
And now it's gone. All that pain for nothing.
I had a root canal on it a few years ago, and more fillings later on. Out of my own pocket I had over $1000 of work done on it (not counting the surgery and brace work). And that's $1000 in the garbage. I would have been better off if they'd left the darn tooth in the palette. (the other eye tooth is faring a bit better, but it's had a root canal and is in need of some patch-up fillings so it will likely have to go eventually)
I will miss the uniqueness of that tooth too. When it came in, it came in backwards. The front of the tooth is inside, and the curved back part was what was visible from the front. Although not even my orthodontist noticed this fact until I pointed it out, to me it was just another mutation in my body, and one that I actually found kind of cool.
I saved the tooth (hey if you invested $1000 in something you wouldn't be too quick to part with it either). But the tooth fairy didn't come. I think she should have put $20,000 under my pillow for my tooth replacements - or at least $250 for the extraction that still remains to be done on the other half of that tooth.
"All I want for Cwiss-mas is my two fwont teefs"... and the rest of them would be nice too.