Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Back to the dentist

Hooray, I didn’t have a tooth pulled today! I had an appointment for the continuing work on this silly broken tooth, which was either going to be an extraction or root canal. This new dentist, now the fourth to work on the tooth, didn’t even suggest an extraction, although he said that the tooth would probably break at some point in a few years anyway. But for now, he’s happy to salvage what he can. He started root canal today, which involved drilling out the old temporary filling (how many times has that been done??), then something else by way of cleaning all the way up to my brain just about, and then inserting some sort of filling and ‘welding’ it in (?), judging by the smoke and smell at one point. He seemed surprised that this tooth had been an ongoing problem for so long – I suspect that if the first dentist had done her stuff properly, there would have been closure months ago, but alas, her great idea of a temporary filling wasn’t a great idea at all.

Nick’s load of bamboo was delivered this morning, which he will be using to create a roof of sorts over the braai area. He finished his bible study prep early and then spent a large part of the afternoon sawing it to the right lengths. He’s extremely motivated with the outdoor stuff!

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