Scheduled Maintenance

[bjarvis]

I had two fillings in my upper left jaw replaced this afternoon. The anaesthetic has long since worn off and while my teeth don't hurt per se, my cheek & jaw ache from the repeated stretching, pushing & prodding. Ow.

The replaced fillings weren't causing me any problems. My dentist decided from recent x-rays and based on the age of the fillings (20+ years) that they should be replaced. Since when do dental fillings have a best-before date?

I'm wondering if my dear dentist simply had a boat payment coming up soon...

Ow.

Comments

[urbear]

Poor baby. The boat payment idea isn't too far-fetched. When I moved to Boston the first dentist I tried (a big ol' faggot with a high-end practice) told me that all my fillings needed to be replaced. What he didn't know is that my mom worked as a dental assistant for 30 years. She knows teeth. There was nothing wrong with my fillings aside from the phantom dollar signs visible only to the dentist.

I switched dentists forthwith. The current guy replaced ONE filling in the last ten years.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to be hunting for a new dentist but largely because the distance between my current office and his has become problematic, esp. with DC traffic being as ugly as it is. Figures.