You can get temporary fillings that you can do yourself. You have to chew this white thing (like chewing gum) to manipulate it and then you put it into your tooth and push it in, shaping it on top too and they work. I had to do that a few years ago when I was flying and I never had any problems with it, the dentist even had trouble getting it back out!!
November 06, 2008 2:39 PM
Current project is a gift, so I don't want to give it away. But it's a HAED design, and it's more than 1/4 finished! I got a lot of work done on it over the last week or so, and the last quarter should fly (mostly one colour). In other news, lots of medical visits. They're looking at a new diagnosis for Brian's sleep disorder, so keep your fingers crossed for us. I'd *LOVE* to actually have both of us able to sleep well!And for me, emergency dental work. Ugh. I have a pretty severe dental phobia. Make that very severe. To the point I ignore things I shouldn't. And put them off. But I made a promise to myself that I was going to deal with it, and put money into our flex plan for next year towards it. I'm going to try sedation dentistry. Go in, get knocked out, wake up with everything done. Works for me. It's just expensive. So the plan was January. Except I've lost a filling. And I knew this (it was what prompted the soul searching about getting the dental work done in the first place). But it's become infected/inflamed/I-don't-know-what-but-it-hurts-like-hell and I had to break down and go last night. And tomorrow before work (at the ungodly hour of 7:30am) I have to get that filling replaced. Wish me luck. I like this new dentist. He specializes in patients who are terrified like me. I have to take a Xanex tomorrow morning before I go and hope that that will help with the panic. He's promised to go very slow, and make sure I am actually frozen before starting. Keep your fingers crossed for me! And if this works, I might be able to avoid the whole general anesthesia bit. And that would be a good thing. A very good thing.
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I hope it all went well today Heather.
You can get temporary fillings that you can do yourself. You have to chew this white thing (like chewing gum) to manipulate it and then you put it into your tooth and push it in, shaping it on top too and they work. I had to do that a few years ago when I was flying and I never had any problems with it, the dentist even had trouble getting it back out!!
November 06, 2008 2:39 PM