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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 11, 2023 7:16:06 GMT
I think it is her personal protest about the rates not having gone up more. Cash only at her office.
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Post by bjd on Nov 11, 2023 11:03:55 GMT
Next time pay her in small coins.
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Post by htmb on Nov 11, 2023 20:47:22 GMT
I had a few things to do in Bayonne before this morning's dentist visit which I why I haven't been participating. I'm back home after an adventurous morning. The dentist is in St Jean de Luz, and I had a train ticket for 7:45. Got a text message yesterday that the train was cancelled because of "social movement". I found that there is a city bus that goes all along the coast to Hendaye (at the Spanish border) and the trip was 50 minutes. There was also a 15-minute walk to the bus stop to get the 7:15 bus, in pouring rain and darkness. Then the dentist did the root canal and removed the cyst (size of a chickpea she said) and I have 5 stitches in my gum. She put lots of anesthetic so it wouldn't hurt, which it didn't during the operation, but the more it wears off, the more sore it all feels. I am having the stitches removed next Wednesday. I hope that it is the end of this for now. None of this was covered by social security or our private insurance. At least I hope I get the money back for my train ticket. Bjd, that sounds like one heck of a dental appointment, especially when you add in the public transportation issues. A cyst the size of a chickpea? It must feel good to have that out of your mouth. Hopefully, your pain is very minimal at this point.
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Post by bjd on Nov 12, 2023 7:20:38 GMT
Thanks, htmb. No pain at all, just have the stitches in my upper gum to be removed on Wednesday morning.
And the cyst didn't hurt at all. I only knew about it because of an x-ray being done when I complained of a bit of sensitivity in the tooth below. The dentist who operated said that I have a good immune system since the cyst was the result of an infection.
After getting back to Bayonne, I had another hour and a half bus ride home (only 35 km but it's not a direct ride). I didn't eat or drink all day because I had been told not to have anything hot. It also took hours for all the anesthetic to disappear. But I was able to eat normally in the evening and I haven't had any trouble so far.
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Post by bjd on Feb 8, 2024 12:14:46 GMT
Another session at the dentist this morning. One of my upper molars was sensitive and painful when I pressed on it. Two teeth over from the one fixed a couple of months ago. The x-ray didn't show anything but when the dentist removed the old amalgam filling, she discovered there was a crack in the tooth. She explained that as things move, the tooth will crack rather than the amalgam doing so. In any case, she said amalgam is no longer used for fillings in France.
Anyway, she cleaned out the infection that was caused by bacteria slowly working their way into the crack and then put a cap on it. In 10 days I have to return and she will complete the root canal.
I hope that's all for now. She is very nice but dentist appointments are not my favoured way to spend time.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 8, 2024 14:12:10 GMT
I had a dental appointment yesterday. But the dentist had to cancel it because the new tooth is not ready.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 8, 2024 18:45:30 GMT
I went last week for a check up and must go again for potential torture in march.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 14, 2024 19:25:53 GMT
Back to the dentist today for the first fitting of the new implant. And then another visit next week. The last one? I doubt it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 21, 2024 12:43:34 GMT
I had my next-to-last appointment today. In addition to my usual staff of 3 (2 students and a professor), there was a new Erasmus student from Norway. Since they all chatted while they were working on me, I now know much more about dental school in Oslo than I did in the past.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 3, 2024 20:42:13 GMT
And now a crown fell out this evening. I'm pretty sure it is the one that was just installed in February. I had joked about my previous implant and the fact that it had come loose in a month a few years ago and they said "that won't happen again." Sure.
I guess I'll go back tomorrow to get some more glue.
I confess that I was eating something chewy. Will I ever learn?
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Post by Kimby on Apr 4, 2024 0:19:42 GMT
Tomorrow I’ll find out if my broken molar can be crowned or if I’ll be getting my FOURTH implant. I was enjoying a mouthful of peanuts when my teeth closed on something hard and noisy, like a little pebble. Nope, the side of a tooth with a huge filling fell off. No pain, and the rough surface is not where it hurts my soft tissues.
Update: dentist says the tooth is sound and crown-able. And he can do it in-office within 2 hours. They used to send you home with a “temporary” while they sent an impression out to a lab that built the crown, then you returned for the seating of the permanent crown.
After this is done, I will have only one tooth with a filling left in my mouth. Until it breaks, too.
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Post by Kimby on May 14, 2024 14:44:43 GMT
Got my new crown yesterday. My first in-office crown experience. In and out within 2 hours with a pearly brand new molar where my old 12-year molar with its gigantic filling used to live. Only thing I felt was the initial prick of the syringe full of local anesthetic. And the pinch when I wrote out the check for $1650.
I asked the dentist if it was laser printed and he said no, because resin is not strong enough. The new tooth is machine-carved from a cube of porcelain after digital impressions are made of the surrounding teeth and your bite and the prepared stump of the broken tooth.
Today I go to the oral surgeon to find out about the hole the periodontist - yes, I have 3 dentists! - found in my jaw that undermines one of my implants. This is the same implant whose crown loosened up and fell out last year (I didn’t know implants crowns COULD fall out!), I plan to ask the oral surgeon if that was a coincidence or related.
I also need to ask him if my first implant could be related in any way to my hearing loss in the ear on the same side. The ENT says it’s probably eustachian insufficiency, but no treatments have returned my hearing. The implant involved a sinus lift and cadaver bone graft. Maybe he nicked a nerve.
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Post by bjd on May 17, 2024 11:22:52 GMT
As a price comparison, my husband had a crown put in yesterday. Final cost was 700€ for the crown and 200€ for the dental care.
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Post by Kimby on May 17, 2024 14:26:55 GMT
So the oral surgeon has dispelled my notions that the hearing loss might be somehow connected to my first implant in 2016, and that the second (2019) implant crown falling out last year could be in any way related to the “fenestration” the periodontist discovered during my cleaning last month. It’s very tiny, but there is a bit of bone loss.
We could watch and wait, or we could treat it. Oral surgeon will be calling the perio to discuss it, and might talk to my regular dentist about fine-tuning the shape of the implant crown which may be exacerbating the situation.
If we decide to treat, it could involve all 3 dentists. 1 to reshape the crown, the oral surgeon to do more bone grafting and the perio to rearrange the gum tissue to better cover up this vulnerable spot.
At least I wasn’t charged for the consultation with the oral surgeon.
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