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It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
Feb. 25th, 2012 01:39 pmDentist again yesterday morning for the last filling. Being in one of my lower back teeth, the dentist said she'd have to put a 'rubber dam' on to keep the saliva off the tooth being worked on. This turned out to be a sheet of rubber placed right across my mouth, clipped in place to fence the tooth off - plus its neighbour, since she said she'd been keeping watch on that tooth and decided it needed a repair job. She thoughtfully cut me an airhole, but even then having the rubber dam in place for all of forty minutes wasn't the most comfortable of feelings. And the repair on the neighbouring tooth slammed an extra £77 on the bill.
Still, when it was all over, and the rubber dam removed to my intense relief, and the dentist, her nurse and the receptionist all said 'goodbye and good luck in MK', that was the end of it all, surely? Err, no. At the end, when she asked me to bite my teeth together, I noticed they weren't closing fully, but thought that was just the newness of the filling - that side of my mouth was still completely under the effect of the local anaesthetic so was too numb for me to feel anything properly. It was only at tea time that the problem became apparent.
When she was doing the filling, the dentist was unsure what template of filling to use, and went for a 'C2'. That can't have been a perfect fit, because one natural corner of my tooth now stands up above the rest and prevents my teeth meeting. And renders eating most awkward.
Cue a phone call to the dental surgery for me to go back on Monday and have it rectified by one of the other dentists - mine only works on Fridays and I cannot live with that mis-shapen tooth for a whole week. That's going to take the total bill through the grand barrier.
I am definitely going to an NHS dentist in MK.
So yesterday evening I was in dire need of a tonic. What better than Fascinating Aïda, playing the Kings Theatre? The ladies didn't disappoint, giving us plenty of new songs and a couple of old favourites, always witty, often caustic, sometimes poignant, sometimes outrageous. Highlights were the Bulgarian Song Cycles, in which the ladies successively flayed various public figures, each in a few short close-harmony chanted phrases, and Cheap Flights (about so-called low fares air travel), which Adele proudly introduced by saying it had 'gone fungal' on Youtube. "29 years and we finally have a hit," Dillie muttered. The ladies urged us all to forward the Youtube link to our friends, to help in their quest for 10 million hits, so here it is :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyl2tOaKxM
Enjoy!
Still, when it was all over, and the rubber dam removed to my intense relief, and the dentist, her nurse and the receptionist all said 'goodbye and good luck in MK', that was the end of it all, surely? Err, no. At the end, when she asked me to bite my teeth together, I noticed they weren't closing fully, but thought that was just the newness of the filling - that side of my mouth was still completely under the effect of the local anaesthetic so was too numb for me to feel anything properly. It was only at tea time that the problem became apparent.
When she was doing the filling, the dentist was unsure what template of filling to use, and went for a 'C2'. That can't have been a perfect fit, because one natural corner of my tooth now stands up above the rest and prevents my teeth meeting. And renders eating most awkward.
Cue a phone call to the dental surgery for me to go back on Monday and have it rectified by one of the other dentists - mine only works on Fridays and I cannot live with that mis-shapen tooth for a whole week. That's going to take the total bill through the grand barrier.
I am definitely going to an NHS dentist in MK.
So yesterday evening I was in dire need of a tonic. What better than Fascinating Aïda, playing the Kings Theatre? The ladies didn't disappoint, giving us plenty of new songs and a couple of old favourites, always witty, often caustic, sometimes poignant, sometimes outrageous. Highlights were the Bulgarian Song Cycles, in which the ladies successively flayed various public figures, each in a few short close-harmony chanted phrases, and Cheap Flights (about so-called low fares air travel), which Adele proudly introduced by saying it had 'gone fungal' on Youtube. "29 years and we finally have a hit," Dillie muttered. The ladies urged us all to forward the Youtube link to our friends, to help in their quest for 10 million hits, so here it is :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPyl2tOaKxM
Enjoy!
