Dentist note
Feb. 10th, 2025 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrJust catching up on a few notes. During my fall check up it was noted a large filling from about 2009 needed replacing and my first ever crown from about 2003 or 2004 was failing. Since I go to the sedation dentist, I had both done last week. 20 years is a pretty good run for a porcelain crown.
As always, sedation was fun. However, this time sedation didn't quite kick in a strongly as previous times. Of course I was vaguely conscious and remembered a few things (but totally did not remember leaving the office or arriving home!). I slept for about 5 hours, got up for about an hour and had to go back to bed. I ended up waking up again at 8:30 pm! The birds were thoroughly confused.
Hopefully that's the last dental thing for a while. The new dentist, Dr. K, who bought the practice when Dr. O retired, is significantly cheaper. Dr. O did have a large family to take care of (he is a Mormon) and he did have to put his son through dental school and one daughter through nursing school, so I get it ;-D It's so rare for the cost of something to go down these days that it's a win worth celebrating!
As always, sedation was fun. However, this time sedation didn't quite kick in a strongly as previous times. Of course I was vaguely conscious and remembered a few things (but totally did not remember leaving the office or arriving home!). I slept for about 5 hours, got up for about an hour and had to go back to bed. I ended up waking up again at 8:30 pm! The birds were thoroughly confused.
Hopefully that's the last dental thing for a while. The new dentist, Dr. K, who bought the practice when Dr. O retired, is significantly cheaper. Dr. O did have a large family to take care of (he is a Mormon) and he did have to put his son through dental school and one daughter through nursing school, so I get it ;-D It's so rare for the cost of something to go down these days that it's a win worth celebrating!
