The dentist...

Since Jason posted about our flight over here I will just add a few more things.

The last few weeks were busy getting everything ready. We packed up and moved to Grham and Beth's house in the beginning of November. With everything that still had to be done I was back up in NH almost everyday. Once of the main reasons was getting my teeth taken care of. I had my teeth cleaned as part of my normal dental care back in september. During that appoitment they found a fracture in my tooth. They said, no problem we will just crown it. So I went in for them to drill my tooth down to crown it. I had the more junior guy who apparently is not very good. After about 10 shots of novacaine I was still feeling a lot of pain when he would drill. An hour of pain and he tells me, take amoxicillin and come back in a week. In addition to the amoxicillin, I had to take a valium before the next appointment. Go back for the next appointment and still the novacaine isn't working..he drills while I clench my whole body against the pain. They drill enough to put the temporary crown on. I wait a week with the temporary which has still left my tooth in pain. They then attach the real crown but only with temporary glue to make sure it feels ok. Of couse, it didn't! Now I had to go back for a root canal. Luckily root canals are done by the senior guy. I go and see him and he tells me that a root canal won't help me and that the tooth should be pulled. At this point, time is running short. I get squeezed in by the oral surgeon to pull my tooth, a coupl edays later with stitches still in and my faces bruised I went back to the dentist to get fit for the bridge. A few more trips back to the dentist and the final bridge went in my mouth 2 days before we stepped on the plane. So far everything as been ok with it. There is a little sensitivity but I'm hoping that will go away over time. If you thought it was long to read about the issues you should have lived through it!