So, today during my regular visit to the dentist for a check-up and tooth-cleaning I was greeted with the news that they wanted to do a full set of x-rays to update their records. This always takes a while, since I still have my wisdom teeth, making it more difficult for them to position the equipment far enough back in my mouth. So I wasn't surprised when it took a number of re-takes back in there on both sides. What did surprise me was the questions they started asking about whether I'd ever had sinus surgery and the like.
Turns out the x-rays revealed a dark patch just above the wisdom teeth far back on the upper right. This didn't appear on a similar set of x-rays they took in 2006: it may not have been there then, or it may have been there and just not showed up. In any case, they recommend I follow this up with a good Ears Nose Throat person, so tomorrow will include some calling around and appointment making.
In the meantime, I have a hole in my head. Which is kinda weird. Not really a call for concern, but still weird.
As for the rest of the visit, it went well, except that I got The Lecture about flossing.*
--John R.
Today's word: radiolucency.
current (re)reading: THE ROOK by O'Malley.
*I don't floss
I was raised in a house without floss, and continued not to floss for more than ten years after reaching adulthood. I have been paying for that mistake ever since. It's probably more important to floss than to brush.
ReplyDeleteI don't floss.
ReplyDeleteLectures are not going to make me floss.
THE WIFE (who flosses) SAYS: "[You] don't need free lectures when [you're] paying good money for lectures from professionals."
The total sum result of said lectures being, I don't floss.
--JDR
Ha! Well, it wasn't lectures that got me to start flossing, but exasperation at the physical and financial pain of so much dental work.
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