I just got back from the oral surgeon. There is bloody gauze in my mouth as I type this.
I only had one tooth pulled, the problem tooth. My dentist said it was the only one that there was a problem with a needed to be pulled. They took a panoramic x-ray of my entire jaw. The cavity on that one wisdom tooth was pretty bad.
The guy was a wizard. He swabbed my gum with some kind of numbing agent and let me sit for a while. He offered me gas, but I refused it. After a few minutes he came back and gave me several injections. The injections didn't even bother me. When he stuck me with the first injection, he wiggled my cheek vigorously. After three or so injections into various spots, he let me sit for a few minutes. Finally he came back, checked to see if I was sufficiently numb. It was show time.
The pulling was lots of pressure and jerking about. He was using various types of gripping tools that I couldn't break out. I heard crunching, and I know that the tooth shatered during the pulling. It took about a minute to get it out. He slowly dug the thing out of my mouth. It seemed like slightly more work than the last teeth I had pulled, but no big deal overall. I'm glad that it is over.
The gave me some pain medicine on the way out. I have presciptions for pain medicine and antibiotics to prevent infection in the wound.
I could probably go back to work tomorrow if I wanted. I think I'll just relax instead.
would you eat meat grown in a vat? how about the vegetarians here? it seems to me, that with modern science's ability to culture cells and even tissues..that it is only a matter of time before we do away with the uneccessary parts of the cow. meat grown in a vat could be bathed in nutrients, shocked to excercise it, and would not come with the possibility of having picked up some weird brain perforating disease. cows grown in vats dont even have brains. "no cows were harmed in the making of this steak!". no massive fields of methane producing, arable land using, smelly herds. and why stop at cows? turducken steaks. turkey legs for everyone at thanksgiving and no bones to get in the way. hummingbird chops. mercury free salmon. etc..etc..
