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So sleeping on the LHS seems to work, at least for not aggravating the tooth. I'm not sure if it's actually healing or just not aggravating. Possibly both?
At the least, I don't have a buzzy tooth all day anymore. It still feels a bit tender in the night, when lying down, but maybe there's a chance it will start to settle? Or, at least, I can get on with doing things without focusing on the pain all the time.
So, the infection above the last molar is chronic, the tooth can either be re-done or extracted.
At this point, I'm going to get the endodontist to take a look at it and see if it can be re-done. If so, it'll be more expensive than a simple extraction with no guarantee that it will 'take' and the possibility that everything will go wrong again.
re: the new root canal (second last molar that's been giving me problems)
The new dentist is frank that he would prefer to try to fix the tooth as long as possible, because otherwise I'll have a dental implant for some forty to fifty years, and since he's working in an area with many older people with money, he's looking at implants from thirty years ago and they're completely different technology to anything we have now. In another twenty, thirty years how far will things change again? So he'd like to put off the need for an implant until it can't be avoided.
Which, fair enough, I get. (Like I said, I can deal with not having options but not being told what those options are? More annoying.) I'm not entirely happy about it, because the tooth has been a thorn in my side for the last six months, and is still linked to the buzzing in my hand and foot. But I can leave it a little while and see. And I think I might re-book the oral surgeon, go and talk to him about the difficulties in an extraction, because it's deep and wide and a complicated extraction, and work it out from there.
And I'm a little worried about when I go overseas in July. I know, it's a couple of months away, but I prefer to worry in advance. (I'm actually a bit worried about where we're going to stay. The woman who wanted to celebrate her birthday in Paris in July hasn't actually done anything about booking where we'll stay while we're in the city. And it's the period of the 13th-16th July: Bastille Day. The first after a terrorist attack in Paris, in France, whose nationalistic arrogance is only eclipsed by America. I'm not sanguine about our chances of finding somewhere good in the city.)
During my travels, I'm going through Vietnam, Paris, Europe (various parts), Houston, and Estes Park, CO.
Sure, I'm insured for travel through those areas, but that's not something I particularly want to have to use. I'd rather trust the Australian system. Plus, intolerances.
The intolerance (as it stands) is the nerve wracking part right now. Will I be able to find things I can eat anywhere? The problem isn't the 'base' food (well, sometimes it is), but the spices and extras. I've already spent one month with near-constant buzzing/humming in my hand and foot, and while some of it is attributable to the tooth issues, some of it is diet related and if I'm still dealing with the tooth, then I'll almost certainly still be dealing with the diet.
Le sigh.
I have decided this weekend will be for lounging and lazing, and tomorrow I'm going to the local library to write. No distractions, no disturbances, just the laptop and the focus. I feel like I need that focus right now.
At the least, I don't have a buzzy tooth all day anymore. It still feels a bit tender in the night, when lying down, but maybe there's a chance it will start to settle? Or, at least, I can get on with doing things without focusing on the pain all the time.
So, the infection above the last molar is chronic, the tooth can either be re-done or extracted.
At this point, I'm going to get the endodontist to take a look at it and see if it can be re-done. If so, it'll be more expensive than a simple extraction with no guarantee that it will 'take' and the possibility that everything will go wrong again.
re: the new root canal (second last molar that's been giving me problems)
The new dentist is frank that he would prefer to try to fix the tooth as long as possible, because otherwise I'll have a dental implant for some forty to fifty years, and since he's working in an area with many older people with money, he's looking at implants from thirty years ago and they're completely different technology to anything we have now. In another twenty, thirty years how far will things change again? So he'd like to put off the need for an implant until it can't be avoided.
Which, fair enough, I get. (Like I said, I can deal with not having options but not being told what those options are? More annoying.) I'm not entirely happy about it, because the tooth has been a thorn in my side for the last six months, and is still linked to the buzzing in my hand and foot. But I can leave it a little while and see. And I think I might re-book the oral surgeon, go and talk to him about the difficulties in an extraction, because it's deep and wide and a complicated extraction, and work it out from there.
And I'm a little worried about when I go overseas in July. I know, it's a couple of months away, but I prefer to worry in advance. (I'm actually a bit worried about where we're going to stay. The woman who wanted to celebrate her birthday in Paris in July hasn't actually done anything about booking where we'll stay while we're in the city. And it's the period of the 13th-16th July: Bastille Day. The first after a terrorist attack in Paris, in France, whose nationalistic arrogance is only eclipsed by America. I'm not sanguine about our chances of finding somewhere good in the city.)
During my travels, I'm going through Vietnam, Paris, Europe (various parts), Houston, and Estes Park, CO.
Sure, I'm insured for travel through those areas, but that's not something I particularly want to have to use. I'd rather trust the Australian system. Plus, intolerances.
The intolerance (as it stands) is the nerve wracking part right now. Will I be able to find things I can eat anywhere? The problem isn't the 'base' food (well, sometimes it is), but the spices and extras. I've already spent one month with near-constant buzzing/humming in my hand and foot, and while some of it is attributable to the tooth issues, some of it is diet related and if I'm still dealing with the tooth, then I'll almost certainly still be dealing with the diet.
Le sigh.
I have decided this weekend will be for lounging and lazing, and tomorrow I'm going to the local library to write. No distractions, no disturbances, just the laptop and the focus. I feel like I need that focus right now.
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