Teeth

I had a great experience today. I got a root canal extracted! Hurray!

I got this gem when I was seventeen. I had an infection in a tooth and my dentist said to me, "we've got to clean this out." Twenty minutes later he is telling me about my root canal. I am thinking, "What?! I had a root canal done?! That would have been nice to know before the fact."

I recently learned that root canals regularly turn toxic, harbor bacteria, and can even be linked to cancer. Crazy right?!

So after a cool scan that showed dead bone around my root canal tooth, where my body was trying to get rid of the dead tooth, I opted to have it taken out.

I now have a cool hole in my mouth. That doesn't happen every day!

Other interesting info: the roots of my root canal tooth were black. I wasn't too surprised since I could see black under the crown- and had for years. The dentist even took a picture. He said, "I can write and write about this stuff, but nothing explains it like a picture." So maybe I'll have a famous tooth showing black roots that can happen in a root canal. Yep, I'm gonna be famous!

After I got home the only way to describe how I felt was relieved. I felt like my body just breathed a sigh of relief to have that toxic tooth out of my body. I feel better now, sour mouth and all, than I have felt in a long time.

I get to drink smoothies without a straw for a few days. Handy that I already have great recipes for smoothies. I also get to rinse with salt water and put drops on the extraction site.

Ready for the best part? I get a cool "denture tooth" called a "spider partial denture." It's a fake tooth that clips onto the two teeth on either side of the hole. Removable and all. I have arrived at the definition of cool!

Thank you for sharing my joy at having this tooth gone. It's a pretty awesome day!