Dentists

Chipped Tooth

Sometime in August I chipped a tooth. I was biting into a piece of kielbasa when I noticed what I thought was the bone in the sausage I hit. It was a piece of bone, but it was accompanied by the bottom third of #7 the tooth just to the right of the two big front teeth. I was also overdue for my 6-month cleaning, but August and September were a very busy time in taking care of Donna, so it was hard enough to sneak away for an hour a week to go grocery shopping, let alone a dentist appointment. The broken tooth didn’t expose the nerve, so I just lived with it.

After Donna passed away I starting making appointments, eye exam (it had been 3 years), a primary care doctor visit (a couple months overdue) and a dentist appointment. October 8th was the dental visit. I got my teeth cleaned and besides the broken tooth I also had a couple of cavities that needed filling, so a follow appointment was penciled in for the 15th.

Cavities were filled and the dentist thought he could recreate the bottom 1/3 of the tooth with the same composite material that he used for the fillings. It looked great, I had a full tooth again. It lasted 3 weeks and came out while eating some popcorn. I didn’t even hit a kernel, just came off. They set up another appointment for November 12th. I thought for sure I was going to get a crown, but he thought it would be worth it to try one more time with the composite recreation of the bottom of #7.

This time the fix lasted less than a day, it came off while I ate my breakfast of Chex cereal with banana slices. I called the dentist office and got an appointment for today the 20th. I was just pulling into the dentist office parking lot when my phone rang, the dentist was not feeling well, so he wasn’t coming in.

We’ll try again next Wednesday the 20th.

That’s Kind of Backwards: Addendum

The optical drive I had came from an HP desktop and just looking at it it seemed like it would slide right into the spot in the Dell’s case. But I never really tried it, I just assumed. So naturally it didn’t fit. Like I mentioned previously, I can’t remember the last time I used an optical drive, so the only thing I lost was a bit of time and $3.99. Both of which are not a problem.

So right now I have a few different options: 1) Buy an official Dell external drive for $40, 2) buy an external case for the HP drive for around half that or 3) buy a random complete drive off Amazon for around the same price as that chancy case. Right now I’m going to take option four, i.e. don’t anything until I actually need an optical and worry about it then.

The Miata was used the last three days for short around town trips. On Tuesday it was sort of spring-like so I took it, top down, on the 2 mile ice cream run to soothe Donna’s sore mouth after a root canal. On Wednesday I took it to my 6-month follow up with the GP, because it was an early morning appointment the trip there was with the top up, but the way home it was down. Today was a rainy midday appointment with my dentist to get my new crowns, so top up the whole way. All three trips are reflected below.

11.6 miles.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 21