Sailfish. Easy mistake to make.
Trying to think of the Volvo owner you are thinking of. Not my dentist. Maybe you mean me?
Anyhoo......while I was checking out, I made sure to thank the staff there (the wife dentist was there) for how well they handled everything today. That coming to their facility was the complete opposite of most people's concept of a visit to their dentist.
With 2 parents from the Greatest Generation - it was instilled into me my entire life to express gratitude to others when they earn it. So yeah - maybe it helps balance things out for those are unable to grasp the concept of gratitude.
Getting back to the tooth situation. Your synopsis of how we ended up here is fairly accurate. The dentist today....after studying the new film told me I had two options. Go to a different endodontist than the one who did my rc and have them do everything over. Or pull the tooth. Then (and this is significant) she did some probing....and found the fracture. And that's when it was decided option B was the only option to choose.
The rest is the rest. The only thing outside of SOP was when the tooth broke apart. My dentist: "It's like an M-80 went off."
That was the husband who did the extraction. The wife everything earlier. I have been friends with then since they took the building over from the previous dentist who retired. He was also my dentist. I have done landscaping work for both at that property including a complete overhaul for the former dentist - much of which is still in place. The new dentist likes tropical stuff and brought in a bunch of bromeliads he has planted in various places there. I have delivered plants to them at their home and they have brought plants up for me from S Florida where they have a place in the Keys. So for us it's not just a dr/patient relationship.
I also received a couple stitches today so will return to have those taken out in a couple days. Probably collateral from the extra work getting the broken fragments out.
The building they are in was designed by a local architect friend of mine and is really really nice. This architect is well known in the area and when I was still in the landscaping business hooked me up with many of his clients for projects he was doing.
Ron, you would really like how technically up to speed they are there. Very professional yet with a easy personality.
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