My cousin's a pretty darned good dentist

[xiphias]

So, I had a tooth cleaning, from my uncle, yesterday. I mentioned that I'd had some pain in the gums next to the tooth where he'd done the root canal, and he took a look at it, and said that it looked like the filling was chipping, and scheduled me for an appointment with my cousin Todd this morning. Todd graduated from Tufts just a few months ago, and is now in practice with his father and our grandfather.

So, he took a careful look at the tooth, and did some drilling and gentle probing, and eventually found a tiny-but-very-sharp chip of SOMETHING that was jammed right in the gum, totally hidden from view, and looking exactly like part of the tooth, and it felt MUCH better once he pulled that out. And then he repaired the filling and got that all nice and working, too.

I'm mainly posting this because I can't get over just how much pain I'm not in. I mean, I really do stop registering pain after a while, and now it's gone, and it's such a relief. Ongoing pain just wears you down and I'm usually in quite a bit of it. As, I suspect, most people are. But there's a big source of pain fixed.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

YAY TODD! ;)

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

Would you care to recommend him to non family members? :)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Sure! He, and the rest of the dentists in my family share two offices, once in Boston at 29 Commonwealth Ave, on the second floor, and one in Revere at 34 Shirley St. The phone number in Revere is 781-286-3700, and in Boston is 617-266-1234. The name of the practices are being changed from "Becker, Becker, and Silvius" to "Becker, Becker, Silvius, and Belf-Becker".

Tell em Ian sent you. :)

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I don't think lots of people are. I think some people are, but generally when I try talking about this to people, they don't get it. "It's been like this for a long time, I know what I can do and what I can't do, it isn't a problem..." tends to get responses like "Oh, so it doesn't hurt?" "Sure it hurts, but it's a constant low level of pain that I'm used to," tends to creep people out so much and make them the wrong kind of helpful that I pretty much don't try that any more.

I'm really glad your tooth is better.

[gingicat]

Yay for cessation of pain!

We should talk, btw. Are you free Monday or Tuesday to come by?