Visit number 9

In visit number 9 the Endodontist cleaned my tooth out again, applied some more medication and refilled the tooth. That was Monday and although it took about 2 days my tooth is feeling normal now and is happy. I'm scheduled to go for my crown on June 23.

Visit number 8...

Well I had to go back to the dentist on Tuesday for my tooth since I woke up Monday with a little bit of pain which got considerably worse during the coarse of the day. The Endodontist said that the bad tooth stuff from the root had gotten into the bone. He drilled out the roots, put medicine in at the bone put in a temp filling and sent me on my way. He did want me to take an antibiotic because this is the perfect situation for an infection to develop, though I showed no signs of one. I'm going back Monday to get the roots refilled. Then on June 23 I'm getting the crown done.

I thought I would throw in that my nephew is getting braces and my sister decided to use the same orthodontist as I will be using, so good luck to him.

Health Insurance

While I'm not trying to turn this blog into a blog about health insurance, the topic has inspired my unhappiness with the health insurance that is offered in this country. As such I thought I would pass along a podcast that I recently listened to about health insurance. It's done by Dan Carlin, he's a talking head, but he's an independent thinker. It's his Common Sense podcast, episode 152 called sick politics. Enjoy...

A tooth with a root canal isn't supposed to hurt

Last week I was on a cruise to Hawaii, which you can read about on my travel blog: http://travelinggiraffe.blogspot.com, when my tooth that had the root canal started to hurt. On Thursday morning when I was having breakfast I started to notice a bit of pain in my tooth that had just had the root canal, but it wasn't enough pain to alert me to trouble. When I had lunch though it was bothering again and worse. I texted my dentist and she wasn't sure what was wrong and offered to call in a prescription for Amoxacilain. In the end I decided against that and instead took pain medication and went to the dentist this morning. He took out the temporary filling looked inside, filled the tooth and said this - either the tooth was just irratated by something and will start feeling better later today, if not then it has a secondary infection. So far it's feeling a little better, but I only ate one meal so far.

Root Canal

Turns out my tooth did in fact need a root canal, which I had done this weekend. The tooth is still quite sore. Thursday I get the root canal finished, should be quick and painless, or so they say. Then I need to get a crown on the tooth since there is a crack in the tooth.

On another front I have decided that I will wait until next year to do the palate expander when I have changed my health insurance.

Of course all of this is screwing up my vacations. I really want to go on a nice vacation in the fall, but the more my teeth cost the more I have to scale down my vacation, damn teeth!

Good news

I met with my primary care physician this week and discussed the possibility of me switching to a health insurance that he does not accept. He encouraged me that if I needed to do this for the year to go ahead with it, and that he would work with me on the costs. He didn't make any promises, but I feel as though I will still be able to be cared for by him and not have to add additional pressure to my existing financial commitments with all this dental work.

Root canal or not????

I went to the Endodontist about my tooth bothering me, he took x-rays and did some tests. He decided that the tooth has a hairline fracture in it and made an adjustment to it. He said to give it a few days, if it feels better then I'm fine until it bothers me again. If it doesn't feel better then I need a root canal and a crown.

I gave it a couple days and my tooth is 95% better so I guess I'm good, thankfully! I'm not in the mood for a root canal and a crown, though I'm sure I will need one at some point, but not right now and that's what counts.