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Since it put me in a depression low for about 2 weeks now, I gotta talk about it.
So it was my 37th birthday about two weeks ago. Everything was fine, fun day, I ate what I wanted, no issues. I go to bed. I wake up. I stay in bed and do my first batch of Kanji on my smartphone Japanese learning app. Afterwards I get up, and as I sit on the edge of my bed, my tongue registers something: Fuck, there's something missing!
As it turns out, the outer half of my 15-tooth (google the numeration for teeth, it's on the upper right side, 5th counting from the front) was missing, leaving a massive gap that was only noticeable on the outside of the tooth, inner side was fine. Weird. So I actually google a bit and it seems you should instantly seek a dentist, so since it was Sunday, I called the emergency-dentist, got an appointment in the evening. Went there, super friendly guy. Removed some more of the tooth, which was the filling. Basically, tooth was already gone partly. I often had some day-lasting pain there, but it always went away after a bit. Well, that's gone now. Anyway, he puts on some paste into the gap so I can eat and brush like normal. On Monday, I made an appointment with my regular dentist.
As I got there on Thursday, it was just a terrible experience. First I wait. Then I sit down on the dentist chair. Dentist comes in, asks what happens, I tell, then he INSTANTLY is like "you can do this or that, which one?", and I'm like wtf, this is an important decision, I'm not sure, which one do you recommend? He then gets audibly pissy, as if I should know already, I tell him "sorry, this is a bit much right now, can you explain again", to which he responds "I just told you". I didn't know what to do, so I asked whether I can just leave it be as is and we'll have another look in 6 months during the regular check-up. That was okay with him, and no 5 minutes after sitting down, I was outside his praxis again. :| Basically he told me he could either remove the rest of the broken tooth and leave it be - or do surgery to put in a "pin" on which then would come a "crown", basically an artificial tooth. But he said the latter probably wouldn't hold firmly and it's not worth it. That had me shocked, because I went there expecting to get a replacement of sorts, no problems. So now I have to accept to have a tooth gap in my backteeth at the age of 37? I don't know how to feel about that.
So, dear dpad, how's your teeth? All perfect? All there? Did you already get some replaced? Or even have a gap? Hearing others' experiences would be a great help. Thx.
So it was my 37th birthday about two weeks ago. Everything was fine, fun day, I ate what I wanted, no issues. I go to bed. I wake up. I stay in bed and do my first batch of Kanji on my smartphone Japanese learning app. Afterwards I get up, and as I sit on the edge of my bed, my tongue registers something: Fuck, there's something missing!
As it turns out, the outer half of my 15-tooth (google the numeration for teeth, it's on the upper right side, 5th counting from the front) was missing, leaving a massive gap that was only noticeable on the outside of the tooth, inner side was fine. Weird. So I actually google a bit and it seems you should instantly seek a dentist, so since it was Sunday, I called the emergency-dentist, got an appointment in the evening. Went there, super friendly guy. Removed some more of the tooth, which was the filling. Basically, tooth was already gone partly. I often had some day-lasting pain there, but it always went away after a bit. Well, that's gone now. Anyway, he puts on some paste into the gap so I can eat and brush like normal. On Monday, I made an appointment with my regular dentist.
As I got there on Thursday, it was just a terrible experience. First I wait. Then I sit down on the dentist chair. Dentist comes in, asks what happens, I tell, then he INSTANTLY is like "you can do this or that, which one?", and I'm like wtf, this is an important decision, I'm not sure, which one do you recommend? He then gets audibly pissy, as if I should know already, I tell him "sorry, this is a bit much right now, can you explain again", to which he responds "I just told you". I didn't know what to do, so I asked whether I can just leave it be as is and we'll have another look in 6 months during the regular check-up. That was okay with him, and no 5 minutes after sitting down, I was outside his praxis again. :| Basically he told me he could either remove the rest of the broken tooth and leave it be - or do surgery to put in a "pin" on which then would come a "crown", basically an artificial tooth. But he said the latter probably wouldn't hold firmly and it's not worth it. That had me shocked, because I went there expecting to get a replacement of sorts, no problems. So now I have to accept to have a tooth gap in my backteeth at the age of 37? I don't know how to feel about that.
So, dear dpad, how's your teeth? All perfect? All there? Did you already get some replaced? Or even have a gap? Hearing others' experiences would be a great help. Thx.
