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Who knew all this would happen afterwards! My winter garden with second blooms on the amaryllis!

Monday, February 3, 2025

Update on dental care

As of writing this Sunday night, Jan. 2, 2025

Dentist visit update- Nothing has changed, I still have a "ball of inflammation" in my cheek, and part of my lower lip is not quite right yet. She put me on a 5 day course of steroids, after taking Xrays to make sure there was no infection. No fever either, so that's a relief. My doctor didn't see anything he could do either. He also said I didn't have symptoms of a stroke. I saw both of them as walk-ins on Friday. They must have been concerned enough to work me in.

Dentist hopes the steroids will help my nerves heal...or whatever this may be.  The Xrays showed some decay below the gum line under the crown...and so she wants to do further extensive work.

The high tech way an Xray is delivered right to the computer immediately after it's taken.

My left side of lip is pulling over, and sometimes it even leaks fluids when  I'm drinking. Yuk!

A suggested kind of partial lower bridge for my mouth, which would be different than this.


A guide of how dental implants work. 



Honestly I am ready to throw in the towel and have all the remaining bottom teeth pulled and a plate of new plastic teeth to use. 

But she (and every dentist I've talked with about this) has said it's not what they recommend. She wants a partial plate. Which also would mean pulling the tooth with the crown that is the only one on that side that still does chewing with my limited teeth on the top. She also suggested implants. Do you know how much those cost? Well, not being a land-owner, or even house owner, I haven't got a thing for a loan to consider it.

And at 82 it doesn't make sense to ask my family for thousands of dollars to make my teeth work better...for how long? I think a cousin who's still employed and in her 60s made a good decision to have implants. But I wouldn't invest much in my mouth - not that I ever have actually. The pain is manageable...not taking anything for the few discomforts that it causes now. But I do look gimpy when smiling and talking sometimes. Well, that's all for vanity isn't it!

And I'm not eager to go have novocaine pumped into my mouth again in another month for more fillings. I've never had this partial frozen and swollen thing happen before. I don't want it to happen again!

The increase in cavities along the gum line is from dry mouth, she says. And my dry mouth is a nightly thing that happens from my C-PAP which I need to breathe. So I'll add some fluoride stuff to my routine of personal care. She hopes that can reduce the cavities that are blooming like little dandelions, or something.

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Today's Quote:

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
 -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)


Today's Art:

.JOHN CLYMER (1907-1989) Saturday Evening Post cover

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