So, this lady that I work with gave me a bag of candy. She said it was from Thailand and that her husband had brought it back after a visit. I thought it was nice that she thought of me since I don’t have much contact with her. Of course I’m the IT person here and I did recently fix her laptop. I look at it as a gesture of good will toward the person who will be fixing her laptop in the future should it need fixing.
After lunch I open the bag and extract one of the candies wrapped in cheerfully colored paper. They look like homemade caramels.
Unwrap, pop in mouth
Chew, suck, chew, suck, mmmm this is really a delicious caramel. I’m going to have to make sure to thank…
CRUNCH… :eek:
What the hell was that?
I spit the partually consumed candy into my hand to see what solid object was embedded within…it’s pearly white…it looks vaguely familiar…
It’s my crown! My permanent crown. From my former dentist to whom I never returned after that particular crown becuase I always though he did a poor job (and the thing was always sensitive) Great…Thanks for the freaking candy lady. :mad:
Call the dentist…closed for the holidays…:eek:
Call the emergency number and Mr. Dentist says go to the drug store, get some temporary cement and glue the thing back on 'til Monday. If it starts hurting call back. Don’t chew on that side. Great.
I decide (unwisely) that maybe I can just pop the crown back on without cement and at least cover up that little tooth nub that’s sticking out all exposed and sensitive…I decide to do this without the aid of a mirror…This was an unfortunate mistake. The metal edge of the crown accidentally comes in contact with the exposed surface of the tooth nub and I am reacquainted with the term that dentists like to use “uncomfortable”. That was uncomfortable. Quite. :smack:
I’m off to the drug store now to find this mythical temporary cement for my crown which I’ve lovingly wrapped in a napkin and placed carefully in my purse.
I really wonder if I’m going to last until next Monday.
I am wincing in pain just reading that. You have to go until NEXT Monday like that? Oh, woe is you. I prescribe a diet heavy in liquids. Preferably margaritas.
Ooooooooh, there with ya on the crown thing. I lost mine in November on a tooth I’d also had a root canal on. Get a new one put on. Simple.
Not so simple.
Turned out I also had an infection around the root, so off to the oral surgeon for an apico (sp?) - drilling into the gum area, clean it out and go back for the permanent crown.
Nasty infection, ended up with two different antibiotics (and the resulting other -ahem - bodily changes with that (thank Og I have an understanding gyno), another return visit and further drainage, got that taken care of, got the new crown fitted, got the temp crown knocked off at work, got it put back on again, and I get the new one put on in two weeks.
I found a wonderful product called Recapit at the drug store. Brought it home. Figured out which way the crown fit and glued that sucker back on.
According to the directions on the gluey stuff I should be good for more than a week. I’m calling on Monday to get this thing really fixed. Still doesn’t feel exactly right (but it doesn’t hurt) and I’m wondering what’s been going on under that crown all this time if it was that loose.
After cracking jokes about steak for dinner my husband decided that sushi would be suitably soft. Sushi and lots and lots of hot sake. Life is good.
Sounds to me it’s more the fault of the dentist who put in the crown rather than the lady who gave you the candy. Proper dental work would have survived extra sticky candy.
I once last a filling and half the tooth it was in to a carmel. It was almost worth the $700 crown to see the look on my dentist’s face when I handed the object to him and said “Could you please put this back where it belongs?”