Dental Recovery

I'm not at work today. I took today off as part of my wife's Wisdom-Teeth-Apalooza. It's been fun.

Turns out, her lower wisdom teeth were touching a nerve that crosses her lip. While the rest of her mouth recovers normally, her lower lip will regain feeling over the next several weeks. Now with that numb lower lip of hers, there's *two* of us dribbling down our chins at dinner.

We've gone through a lot of napkins.

As for me, getting the Permanent Crown seated was pretty easy. However, no one warned me what the 'Doc meant when he said, "We'll just pop that temporary crown off..." He made it sound like there was some sort of clever pull-tab or something. What he actually meant was that he'd grab the temporary crown with a pair of clamps, plant one foot on the side of my chair, and yank upwards like he was trying to pull Baby Jessica from the well.

After a full minute of the purest joy, he stopped to catch a breather. "It's loose!", he happily proclaimed. Then he grabbed some bigger clamps.

Thank God we're done with the dentist for a while. He means well, but that much focused enthusiasm is just frightening.