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mannikin

teeth

Jan 09, 2007 20:21

all i wanted for christmas was one and a half of my front teeth and half of my left canine, and god-fucking-damn, i have them now. the dentist tapped the temporary crowns from the filed-down stumps using a blunt chisel. then he concealed the ruin of my gums and teeth with steel-reinforced resin bridgework. it was all very frankenstein ( Read more... )

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flayedreality January 9 2007, 19:50:08 UTC

oh hay you.

mannikin January 10 2007, 12:53:02 UTC

hay.

leananesidhe January 9 2007, 22:04:40 UTC

congratulations on having teeth again!
welcome back to the wonderful world of chewing.

oi guess emergancy dental procedures aren't the kind of thing they brief you on when you head to japan.

mannikin January 10 2007, 12:54:26 UTC

chewing is awesome. for a while i couldn't even do that, as the internal pressure from food in my mouth would push my loosely held incisor out between my lips. gross, huh?

they don't really brief you on much when you head to japan. there are a great many things that i know now that i wish i had known then.

cricketboy January 10 2007, 18:30:20 UTC

Dude. Miss ya.

P.S. - Baby Hawaiian Woodrose Seeds =)

mannikin January 11 2007, 13:59:13 UTC

miss you too.

haha . . . do you have some?

salien January 11 2007, 04:47:36 UTC

I seriously, literally, have terrifying nightmares that are not at all different from your account. (though the last one, where a tooth fell out and somehow took part of my skull with it such that poking myself in the forehead afterward involved poking my brain, complete with limb-twitching, was perhaps a bit more far-fetched... Though not much.) To have them actually occur in real life would, I believe, reduce me to a gibbering pile of fear-goo.

In other words, I have no idea how you survived this, but I am glad you are alive.

mannikin January 11 2007, 14:06:23 UTC

yeah . . . i have horrible nightmares about my teeth as well. they aren't really recurring dreams so much as recurring images, and the most common one involves my teeth crumbling from my head. so when the dental hygenist would show me a mirror, using a probe to point out the extent of the damage to my mouth and holding up different colors of tooth to see which one i wanted, it was psychically taxing.

thanks, though. i'm glad i'm alive too.