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Originally Posted by vash

!@#$!@#!!

Dentists!!

my faithful dentist retired. he considered himself (his words) a country dentist. he did the cleaning himself. all of it. had a small office with just one assistant.

old school. film x-rays. clay molds for teeth crowns and implants. he retired. I'll miss him as a bud. but as a dentist..I learned things today with my new dentist.

she is kinda a badass. I put the crowing glory on my root canal this morning. she SCANNED my mouth with a wand, and my crown started 3D printing in the next room!! the actually work was still barbaric as hell with the grinding and stuff.

oh, her modern x-rays sent pics to a giant monitor where she found my next trouble spot. I'm dental-dumb and I saw the crack before she pointed it out to me. well, it looks like a crack. she thinks that is my next implant. the mental cussing in my mind was epic. oh well. I'm not convinced my old dentist would have seen the minuscule crack into those tiny 1"x1.25" photos you hold up to a light table.

she did offer me nitrous. I declined.

Isn't that a temp crown? My dentist made them for me and I kept cracking them. lol Then my permanent one arrived and all is good.

That said, my dentist is pretty old, and his daughter came back to Hawaii after her son graduated high school. She would come back during winter and summer to stay up to date on practice. Other than that, she was a housewife. The bad part? She was a good friend when we were growing up. And now she scolds me and tells me I shouldn't eat this and that because it cracked my teeth.