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Tooth Report
Oct. 12th, 2022 11:33 pmI'm back from the dentist with mostly good news!
The awesome news is that the dental student who was working with me told me I have beautiful gums. Like "out of a textbook diagram" beautiful. I am apparently an exception to the "We mark everyone down with gingivitis" rule, as well. (I don't think I was supposed to hear the "we say everyone has it" part 😂 The subtext there was, "So many people have it, we may as well save ourselves the time," I think.)
The less good news is that I have my first ever in-need-of-formal-work cavity 😓 I've had a couple of itty-bitty ones before that healed up on their own, but the faculty dentist said this one was just a teensy bit too far gone for that. So I'm getting my first filling.
But still, I made it thirty-five years without any really serious cavities, and even this one is just barely bad enough to need work! All things told, I think I came out ahead.
The awesome news is that the dental student who was working with me told me I have beautiful gums. Like "out of a textbook diagram" beautiful. I am apparently an exception to the "We mark everyone down with gingivitis" rule, as well. (I don't think I was supposed to hear the "we say everyone has it" part 😂 The subtext there was, "So many people have it, we may as well save ourselves the time," I think.)
The less good news is that I have my first ever in-need-of-formal-work cavity 😓 I've had a couple of itty-bitty ones before that healed up on their own, but the faculty dentist said this one was just a teensy bit too far gone for that. So I'm getting my first filling.
But still, I made it thirty-five years without any really serious cavities, and even this one is just barely bad enough to need work! All things told, I think I came out ahead.
