The Saga of Molar 47

[wayfaringwordhack]

Back in January, I started suffering from horrible tooth pain. Six months and several flare-ups later--after 5 visits to the dentist, one to an osteopath*, one to a doctor, one x-ray, one cone beam scan, and two** courses of antibotics--we discovered I had a vertical fracture in my molar, right between the tooth's roots.  Last week, the dentist did a root canal, and next Thursday, I should have the permanent filling put in.

 

After asking the dentist how in the world I had fractured my tooth in such a way, I remembered that at the end of last year, Ti'Loup, while sitting on my lap, flung himself backwards into my chest, and his head made painful contact with my jaw. That was, I believe, the first chapter in The Saga of Molar 47.

 

May July 2nd bring about "The End."

 

 

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*After the first course of antibiotics, during which time the pain was so great that it literally tetanized my jaw and I couldn't open my mouth more than a centimeter, I had to visit an osteopath to help unlock the muscles

** I actualy had to take anitbiotics 4 times. It went like this: 1st type for 7 days; no help....take different type for another  7 days. Things got better for 2 months. Then 2nd time: Take 1st type again, nothing... keep taking it for 2 extra days in hopes of improvement...nothing. Desperately get in touch with doc since dentist can't be reached, and take 3rd type of pills for ten days.....only to still feel the tooth when the treatment is up.

Comments

[asakiyume]

What a perfectly awful six months :(

I'm really glad the ultimate cause of the pain was discovered and that you're in the concluding chapter of that dreadful saga.

[wayfaringwordhack]

Hear, hear!

I really, really hope that this is truly the end of it. :P

[tolcath]

I had a cracked tooth a few years back. It appeared, as in symptoms, after I had a filling put into the same tooth. I remember thinking that if he pounded the filling material any harder the tooth would break, but I didn't realize that might actually happen. I'm so sorry yours took so long to find and take of!

[wayfaringwordhack]

Yeah, I am sure it would have been diagnosed and treated much sooner had Covid-19 not put everything into statis. Dentists weren't allowed to practice here, except in extreme emergencies, which I am sure was the case in other places as well.