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CHEWING GUMS

I went for my scaling, planing and lasering of the lower quadrants of, what? My dentals? My teeth?

The whole bottom set of choppers.

It took 2 and 1/2 hours.

It wasn't bad. They numbed me and if it hurt at all they gave me more juice.

I had the same technician that I had the first time. The one I sort of fought with. Or against.

Today went better. We even got along. Most of the time.

I just quit fighting back. When she said to floss, rather than tell her that I don't and won't, I remained silent.

She knows that I am not a flosser already.

That is probably why I had to have the scaling.

The planing.

The laser.

The thing is that when I argued back, she simply tried all the harder to convince me.

So I shut up and let her do her work.

Michelle.

It is a tedious procedure. First they scale with the sonic cleaning thing, then they plane with tools. Each tooth.

A laser is used to cut away diseased gum tissue.

Then she x-rays it to see if she got it all and then goes back again for the dregs.

She is thorough. I have to give her that.

There is no after pain if I take Advil.

No solids to eat today.

I bought some Slim-Fast.

I suppose I could eat yogurt and stuff like that. I will do that tomorrow.

The word is that it will actually take weeks for the lasered stuff to heal. Slowly but surely.

I can eat normally by tomorrow evening. Just no hard stuff.

And I won't have to have it all done again.

If there are any trouble pockets, then they will just do those.

Like all things of this nature, worrying about it before hand is far worse than the actual event.

This completes Step Two of my dental rehab program.

Next is a crown in the lower right. I will wait for April.

Cash flow.

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