26 hours post-root canal and my mouth hurts worse than ever. I'll give it a couple more days since, after all, there was a lot of pushing, pulling, and scraping going on in there yesterday and they did say it would be tender for a while. In the meantime I need to buy more Advil.

I am back from the much-anticipated, endodonic procedure I'd been waiting for. I.e., I just had a root canal ( Read more... )

My tooth was still throbbing and aching this morning when I woke up and I can't even put my teeth together without massive pain, so I bit the bullet and filled the prescriptions the dentist gave me for Vicodin and antibiotics. Looks like I'm going to be getting a root canal on that tooth. I'm pretty sure I have another one of those coming up too ( Read more... )

In case anyone was interested in seeing what a broken maxillary first molar looks like, I had Josh take a picture of it with the video otoscope at work. Cut for the squeamish.

( Broken tooth! )

Wow, the holidays were crazy. I think we spent time with every relative we have in Northern California and a few more besides, but it was a good time. I even got to hold one of my new nieces.

Still, I am very glad that Winter Break is over and Kaitlin is back in school. I love her to pieces, but I definitely need some time without a kid ( Read more... )