the tooth saga continues...
After spending a fair amount of time hanging around at bus stops yesterday, I made it to the dentist. I didn't have an appointment, I was hoping he could just fit me in between patients for a quick smoothing of the rough edges and then I'd make an appointment for a proper filling. Well, none of that happened. I got there just after the clinic opened, to find my dentist wasn't even beginning work until 10am. So I sat down with my kindle and read until I was almost asleep, then got called in. Dr M took a look at the molar and said smoothing the rough edges wouldn't do at all. There are so many old fillings already in the tooth, smoothing would just leave them all exposed and unstable. So he filled the whole side with a temporary filling, to stop it from ripping chunks out of my tongue*, then we discussed options. Best option? Remove all the old fillings, insert a couple of stabilising pins, then build up a new filling to the original tooth size. I've had a too...