Goodbye Tooth

Spanish: diente
Japanese: ha
English: tooth
Today I bid farewell to my single, wacky wisdom tooth. The process was over and done with in less than 5 minutes. I sat down and took a nervous look at the instruments on the dentist's tray. He came over, wiped some numbing gel on my gums, then shot some local anesthesia into them. Then he made two quick tugs, stuck some cotton in my mouth, told me to bite, and said we were done. I didn't even realize the tooth had come out. *Sigh* I'll miss it.

2 Comments:
22 hour later update. I've had so little pain from the tooth being pulled that I haven't even taken the painkillers the dentist gave me.
This seems contrary to all the wisdom tooth removal stories that I had heard before (which often include oral surgeons). I guess I got lucky...
You were lucky! Getting rid of my wisdom teeth required that I be unconscious. Good on ya.
I heard an ad on the radio here (Utah) offering free wisdom-teeth removal if people agreed to test out this new painkiller. Creepy.
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