Day 1553 Spit and bullets

11th November 2021

I had some heavy machinery working in my mouth today. It was my crown preparation day.

There was an hour and a half of drilling and grinding that I felt throughout my entire body.

There was also a powerful suction system capable of sucking up my whole tongue and tonsils.

The practice is like a production line with the dentist moving between different patients seeing to their needs then returning to mine.

Trying to imagine what is going on in my mouth dominates my brain, it feels like they are digging a tunnel, or something equally deep and dark.

Finally the dentist finishes the demolition and leaves it to his assistant to finish off whilst he goes off to another poor victim.

Up to now she was in charge of the suction, making sure my tongue stayed attached, whilst removing all the rock fragments and saliva that fill my mouth. No matter how much I concentrate I create so much of the stuff sometimes to the point of choking my head off.

Fortunately she was on the ball and I didn’t drown in my own spit.

Her job was to make the temporary crowns and produce the information for the final crowns.

My experience in the UK is the dentist takes impressions of my teeth producing a plaster cast of my jaw which gets sent off to the crown maker who makes it from the moulds.

When completed, it comes back placed in the plaster cast, the dentist removes it, and sticks it in my mouth.

Over here it is done by scanning, and the digital file is sent to the technician who programs a machine to make the crown base.

It should be perfect when it comes to fitting.

I did request that it should come with LED lighting for what I’m paying for it, but he did say that would be an extra cost, so I didn’t bother.

Kelli picked me up, and we drove home with my left side of my mouth drooping like I had a stroke. I tried to eat a bowl of soup for lunch, a lot of it just ran down the other side of my mouth making me look like a vampire.

I didn’t do much in the garage, I wasn’t feeling it, I managed to repair a top, and make a support rail for a back panel, and that was that.

We did sell the “Accident” this morning which was good, and we picked up another free dresser this evening.