I’m generally a pretty tough guy when it comes to pain. Especially when it comes to any time spent in a dentist’s chair. Yesterday I spent some time getting some dental work done. I had to have a tooth that broke in half pulled out as a first step for a dental implant. Numb the area with a local, check. Numb the roof of the mouth with a local, check (though I’ve never had that done before). Start pulling on tooth and expect some pressure – so the dentist tells me, check. Once tooth is out, patient’s heart starts to race, he gets sweaty all over and nearly faints. Wow. I’m not sure what happened, but once the tooth was out my body must have gone into some strange shock. Fortunately another dentist came in with an icepack to put on my forehead. That did the trick.
The tooth came out in two pieces. It was a clean break already in the mouth, no wonder it was hard to chew on.
After that, the rest was easy. Pack bone material in. Suture. Get instructions on what not to do. Now it’s wait for 4 months for everything to heal, then it’s dental implant time. As of this morning, I’m still getting used to the space. Can’t wait until it gets filled back in with a tooth.
Speaking of fixing my floors and my teeth (the floors in my house that I’ve mentioned before), I’m rolling with a ditty called Smile by Sylvia Bennett. A jazzy number in case you’re not on Single of the Day . com right now. I don’t normally get a lot of jazz coming my way. It’s a mellow number. Lots of piano, some cool drums, some sly swing bass and some floating female vocals.
My initial thoughts run to some sort of jazz lounge. As it should, being that it is in that style.
Lyrically the song is about heartbreak and holding your head up high. But the title and the good vibes that it promotes is exactly how I’m feeling while I’m heading in an upswing in life and that I’m fixing and upgrading several things.
Good stuff.