Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

Yesterday I had yet another dentist appointment. See, my upper left teeth have been causing me pain ever since I got a filling in one of the them over a year ago. It doesn’t bother me all the time, but I can’t eat on that side so everything that requires chewing has to stay on the right. I’ve been back to see the dentist twice and they can’t see what’s wrong so they’ve just been grinding down my teeth to “change my bite” so I’m not putting too much pressure on the wrong spots. Well that thought kind of scared me, and so far it hasn’t helped. So yesterday (I think) instead of grinding my teeth, they ground down the filling that they’d put in. I get to wait about a week and if that doesn’t help I will probably have to get a crown somewhere–I assume in the tooth with the filling, but like I said, they haven’t exactly located the source of the pain, so it may be a neighboring tooth. They also recommend that I try to get the remainder of my wisdom teeth removed asap. Seriously. This does nothing to help with my severe dislike toward my teeth. Or my general distaste for dental appointments. In better dental news, the three older kids all had dental appointments this morning and came through cavity-free! Elise has to go back to get seals on her molars, and they want all the kids back in six months for a checkup and flouride treatment. “Flouride Treatment.” That phrase immediately takes me back to the very beginning of my problems with dentists. THE SPOUNGE! Oh ew the dreaded sponge! The very thing that eventually turned me off to all toothpaste and dental visits. I can probably trace most of the future dental problems that I will have back to the use of the sponge. GAG. For my children’s sake I surely hope that they’ve come up with a better form of administering the “flouride treatment.” I try really hard to keep my dental feelings to myself so I don’t turn the children against seeing the dentist, and so far they seem to do ok. Hopefully I can spare them from experiencing pain like I am dealing with now.