Re: haven't seen dentist in 7 years
From: Adenosine (adenosine_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/20/04
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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:40:10 GMT
On 19 Nov 2004 11:56:09 -0800, rwilson290@hotmail.com (Ron Wilson)
wrote:
>StovesNewAddy@sympatico.DOTnet (StovePipe) wrote in message news:<1gnh0y5.17h9qyc1inofgmN%StovesNewAddy@sympatico.DOTnet>...
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>> >
>> > I also told my girlfriend of 3 months over the weekend that I'd be
>> > without a molar for the next 4 months and, though I'm not a mind
>> > reader, it seems to be going over okay.
>>
>> ... Is this here lady part of the solution or part of the problem???
>> Just a Question
>> SP
>
>She is neither. I told her that if she couldn't handle it I'd be
>fine. I'd live, and eventually I'd have an implant in and things
>would move on. She said that I must think she's shallow if I would
>think that she'd break up with me over this. She said it's a part of
>living. I guess I project myself into her shoes and when I was 28 I'm
>not sure how I'd respond if a girlfriend lost a tooth. It's just that
>the area of the country we live in, Washington DC, can sometimes be
>overly superficial and looks oriented (well I guess that pretty much
>describes 95% of america), so I didn't know how it was going to go
>over. I suppose I also feel a little guilty for not having gone to
>the dentist for so long when the rest of the civilized world goes
>twice a year. So far so good though.
"The rest of the civilized world" is not as much as you think it is.
Every statistic I see says that 50% or so of the population never sees
a dentist unless something hurts. Whenever I go up to rural Ferry
county to see my grandparents I'm suprised at how many people you see
around are missing or have badly decayed teeth, even in very visible
places.
>
>I'm also scared sh*tless over what's to come in the next few weeks.
>I'm getting the tooth in front of #19 root canaled on the 29th. I
>hope to god that one can be salvaged, because if it turns out to be
>unsalvagable, then I'm screwed and this whole ordeal will be visibile
>to the public at large everytime I smile. According to the dentist
>there is less decay in that tooth than there was in #19, so he has
>higher hopes.
I wouldn't be too worried about #19 being visible. I'm getting #30
done with a 3/4 gold crown, and I'm missing a bicuspid on each side,
and I still don't see it being too visible in day to day activity.
Maybe if I was laughing, or yawning you coudl see it, but everybody
needs some bling.
-- Adenosine Semi-informed Dental Consumer ?
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