since my last post, i cracked a tooth while at work. a big chunk of 'tooth' came out while i was sitting at my desk (i was just sitting there, not eating or anything), so i quickly moved myself to the restroom, where i thought i would start gushing out blood: which did not happen. but i did think i was dying of some weird tooth disease and i started imagining that all my teeth were about to fall apart. it was my left, upper, back molar area - and i could not see it in the mirror quite. until a little later in the afternoon, i realized that from the side, if i pulled my cheek back, there was basically a huge gap from where the tooth broke!
called my dentist office -- all dentists were out of the office for training!! wtf, seriously!? went to a different dentist office instead, but had to wait a couple hours before i could get in. i was really freaked out and could not concentrate on work at all.
turns out, all is fine. it was actually a filling that broke from too much pressure. so now i have to get porcelain. how do you spell that? i have a temporary onlay right now while they make the porcelain piece i need. i think that's how it works.
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Ouch. I have had so many bad dreams in which that happened. How lucky we are to have modern dentistry technology!
i am soooooo glad you are not dying of some weird tooth disease. that would just be awkward on your headstone! :)
yikes! thank goodness it is not the actual tooth and just the filling.
i love that you always have the perfect photo to fit your posts! so glad it was just the filling. i bet the tooth was a little concerned.
totally random but my nightmares always include my teeth crumbling and falling out. I read in a dream book that it was a stress dream meaning you felt you had too much in your life that you couldn't control.
so sad that it happened to you!
Lauren, that's what happens in my nightmares, too. It's awful!
this happened to me many years ago, but i was eating a sandwich. turned out i needed a crown.
i too often have nightmares featuring my teeth falling out. terrible, terrible dreams. i read somewhere that this dream means you have a fear of failure. hmmmm.
i'm so glad folks have dream interpretations bc i often have ones that i pull out my left front tooth and try in vain to shove it back in. it makes this gushy sound and that's usually when i wake up. can't believe your filling fell out! were you eating something? i remember the orthodontist telling me all the foods i could not eat with braces (gum, gobstoppers, etc.) and it was a soft fry that loosened three of my brackets. damn fry.
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