
tigerstripedred
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- May 6, 2016
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Friday 13th...really? It's just my normal cleaning. However I am terrified the crown I had replaced will come off shortly after like it did last time due to the short amount of tooth left. IF that happens they want me to go have crown lengthening and there is no way I am doing that so the tooth would go....I am not ready for this kind of possibility. I worry my gum measurements are going to have deep pockets and other dental work will be leaking or come off. The way my awful week has gone heck even my virgin teeth might decide to jump out of my face during the cleaning.
I worry about a filled tooth that feels a bit weird since I had night guard impressions done a month ago. It was a new filling 1.5 years old but I swear it is lose now or something. I don't want to redo xrays though. I had them done last month.
About half my days I am ready to say screw it pull everything even my perfectly healthy non worked on teeth..they have gum recession anyway from aggressive flossing and brushing. I mean it's where I'll end up anyway. Why keep delaying the inevitable. If I could wrap my head about the idea of dentures i probably would do that (even pull the stupid implant I got last year) but i can't wrap my head around that either.
I've even worried that my cleaning is going to hurt this time when it hasn't since my current Hygienist took over. And what if my gums bleed. I floss all the time. They still bleed sometimes..I see the memes about patients lying about flossing. I find those very upsetting because I do floss at least once a day...often times 2 or 3 times a day :/
I really just want to quit now. Yesterday was the 5 year anniversary of my tooth pull that forced me back to the dentist. I still feel just as hopeless and any time something has to be replaced or especially if they happen to find a cavity on a tooth with no work...I feel like an utter failure.
I worry about a filled tooth that feels a bit weird since I had night guard impressions done a month ago. It was a new filling 1.5 years old but I swear it is lose now or something. I don't want to redo xrays though. I had them done last month.
About half my days I am ready to say screw it pull everything even my perfectly healthy non worked on teeth..they have gum recession anyway from aggressive flossing and brushing. I mean it's where I'll end up anyway. Why keep delaying the inevitable. If I could wrap my head about the idea of dentures i probably would do that (even pull the stupid implant I got last year) but i can't wrap my head around that either.
I've even worried that my cleaning is going to hurt this time when it hasn't since my current Hygienist took over. And what if my gums bleed. I floss all the time. They still bleed sometimes..I see the memes about patients lying about flossing. I find those very upsetting because I do floss at least once a day...often times 2 or 3 times a day :/
I really just want to quit now. Yesterday was the 5 year anniversary of my tooth pull that forced me back to the dentist. I still feel just as hopeless and any time something has to be replaced or especially if they happen to find a cavity on a tooth with no work...I feel like an utter failure.
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