Ok, so you guys know about my recent experience at the dentist office right? Any of you who missed the excited and somewhat vicodin-induced post a couple nights ago please feel free to click here! What can I say but yea to pain meds when you actually need them.
You’ll rejoice with me in knowing that the heartbeat in my gums has now been reduced from a whale-size beat to that of a small rodent. And it only hurts in the evenings. The pain is subsiding each day and today I got the lovely flesh (black) stitches taken out. So I don’t look like I have a spider fighting me for the front and center position in my mouth.
I don’t like spiders.
So back to this miracle worker guy.
We all know no one takes the place of the real miracle worker but my dentists, they try! Way to go guys (and girls)!
After having my stitches taken out today the good doctor set about resurfacing my dull, temporary plastic foreign object in my mouth that was supposed to be a tooth and which was also fighting with the spider for the coveted front and center position in my once beatiful mouth.
What’s so great about the best seat anyway?
So back to the resurfacing…..
This "way cool" CAD machine went to work redesigning my tooth surface with a little help from sweet as a button Alicia and the good doctor himself. Quite the team, they are!
Ok now I have Yoda from Starwars running through my mind. "The force is strong with this young one it be! MMMmmm."
You remember how he says everything backwards?
Ok, the tooth, the tooth.
I’m not going to tell any of you what CAD means because if you are technogeeky like me you’ll already know and if you’re one of those relationship people you won’t ever care.
Any guesses though?
So about 10 minutes of this cool machine doing it’s thing and we have something that is beginning to look like tooth forming in the bowels of the dental office. Out it comes….all 1/4 inch of the thing. How do they keep up with such small things? A dentist office definiely would not survive at my house.
The good doc grinds (with diamonds ….oooo….ahhhh), pops that puppy in my mouth, grinds some more, pops it out, grinds again. Back in, back out, back in, back out, then on to polishing……
"Make it really shiny"
Some cement to stick that bugger onto the totally inadequate plastic first tooth and voila!
I have gone from this
To this!
Okay, you decide…
Miracle worker OR not???
Love ya Drs. Steve, Paul and Melissa….
I shall proclaim your reconstructive abilities from the highest buidlings in Liberty! Or at least from our tree house in the back yard,
And thanks to Joan and Bridgett for offering hours of entertainment while the good doctors are working their magic. And to Chrissa for our in depth discussion about toothbrushes. I’m sure we changed someone’s universe. And to sweet Kelli for encouraging me through the stages of grief when almost losing a very important fight to a spider and a plastic impostor!!! You’re the heat Kelli.
Dr W. You get lots of kudos today. Good job! I really do look like Julia! Don’t cha think!!!
Blessings from this Julia Roberts look alike thanks to another day spent at my friendly neighborhood dentist office.
IN HIM alone….
about the job loss and possibly leaving of home – we went through that two years ago – job change and then having to leave our home a month later due to that. Never an easy one and I will pray for you guys.
Also, for your little Caleb – so hard when you want to be able to fix something for our little guys, like fear, and really we find it only leads us back on our knees asking God because we can't fix it. I will pray there will be a break through.
blessings~
alyssa
I wish my dentist had gone to the same dental school yours had gone to.
Blessings, Julie