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Aug. 20th, 2008
Fuck. My mother is going to kill me.
Yesterday I went to the dentist for my six month cleaning. I pointed out this issue I have with the spot on my gums just above my very front tooth. Back @ Memorial Day, I was at a cook-out and I stabbed myself above my front tooth with a plastic fork. (would have been funnier if it was a spork.) A week or so later I noticed this huge bubble-like thing on my gum where I had stabbed myself. I popped it and blood came out and then I rinsed with salt water. I rinsed like this until it went away. As soon as I stopped rinsing, it came back. So I did the whole drain it and then rinse thing. Every time I stop rinsing it comes back. Then it went from being a bubble to this, like, hanging flap of skin. It got so big that you could see it hanging down on my tooth when I smiled. But in the past week it's gotten small enough that you can only see it when I lift my lip up all the way.
After Bridget finished cleaning my teeth yesterday, Dr. Aviza checked it out. Bridget told him the story of what happened. Dr. Aviza thought that I probably just tore the tissue there and it had grown back weird like this. But he wanted to get an x-ray just in case. So they took the x-ray and then I left. Dr. Aviza was going to look at it and get back to me.
So just a few minutes ago, Roberta called. She said that Dr. Aviza looked at the x-ray and found a small absess at the root of the tooth that the weird gum-skin-flap-thing is over. He's refering me to the root-canal dr. He thinks that they need to do a root canal and Dr. Aviza will put a permanent filling on it....which is NOT the same as a crown and does not last forever like a crown. We went through this last time when I needed a root canal and my mom was kinda pissed and was like, You are NOT doing that. You ARE putting a crown on my daughter.
So basically I'm screwed b/c a root canal is, like, $1,200. I only have about $400 left on my dental insurance and that is getting used up next month on some cavities. So, yeah. I'm screwed. I really don't want my mom to come home from work b/c I really do not want to tell her. Yesterday we were scared b/c it sounded like all of this might happen and we don't really have the money for it. But I'd really rather have it done before my tooth starts hurting like a bitch. I've had 2 absessed teeth before. One hurt like a bitch. But the second one I had didn't b/c the nerve had died. I couldn't feel anything, so I didn't even know there was something wrong until the infection made my gums and my face swell up wicked badly.
Once again, I am SO screwed.
Just thought you should know.
Yesterday I went to the dentist for my six month cleaning. I pointed out this issue I have with the spot on my gums just above my very front tooth. Back @ Memorial Day, I was at a cook-out and I stabbed myself above my front tooth with a plastic fork. (would have been funnier if it was a spork.) A week or so later I noticed this huge bubble-like thing on my gum where I had stabbed myself. I popped it and blood came out and then I rinsed with salt water. I rinsed like this until it went away. As soon as I stopped rinsing, it came back. So I did the whole drain it and then rinse thing. Every time I stop rinsing it comes back. Then it went from being a bubble to this, like, hanging flap of skin. It got so big that you could see it hanging down on my tooth when I smiled. But in the past week it's gotten small enough that you can only see it when I lift my lip up all the way.
After Bridget finished cleaning my teeth yesterday, Dr. Aviza checked it out. Bridget told him the story of what happened. Dr. Aviza thought that I probably just tore the tissue there and it had grown back weird like this. But he wanted to get an x-ray just in case. So they took the x-ray and then I left. Dr. Aviza was going to look at it and get back to me.
So just a few minutes ago, Roberta called. She said that Dr. Aviza looked at the x-ray and found a small absess at the root of the tooth that the weird gum-skin-flap-thing is over. He's refering me to the root-canal dr. He thinks that they need to do a root canal and Dr. Aviza will put a permanent filling on it....which is NOT the same as a crown and does not last forever like a crown. We went through this last time when I needed a root canal and my mom was kinda pissed and was like, You are NOT doing that. You ARE putting a crown on my daughter.
So basically I'm screwed b/c a root canal is, like, $1,200. I only have about $400 left on my dental insurance and that is getting used up next month on some cavities. So, yeah. I'm screwed. I really don't want my mom to come home from work b/c I really do not want to tell her. Yesterday we were scared b/c it sounded like all of this might happen and we don't really have the money for it. But I'd really rather have it done before my tooth starts hurting like a bitch. I've had 2 absessed teeth before. One hurt like a bitch. But the second one I had didn't b/c the nerve had died. I couldn't feel anything, so I didn't even know there was something wrong until the infection made my gums and my face swell up wicked badly.
Once again, I am SO screwed.
Just thought you should know.
