I love my dentist. The whole surgery. I love them all.
The office opened at 08:45. At 08:45:01 the phone was answered and an appointment made for 09:10.
By 09:35 my front tooth was back in place. Look:
The dentist was quite excited to have a chance to use her new adhesive, called Etch. It stuck that sucker right back on and it feels more secure now than the rest of the teeth in my mouth.
I was fortunate that the tooth sheared off in one piece at an angle. And that it stuck in the corn cob rather than down my gullet.
I was pleased that there was a work experience student there from Spud’s school, because it gave me a chance to boast that Spud had never needed any treatment at all in his seventeen years; not once.
I was chuffed when the dentist told the student how lovely and polite and friendly Spud was, and a pleasure not to treat.
I smiled all the way home.
All rather different from last night, when I was feeling very sorry for myself and my ugly, must never be seen in public again mouth. Though I did get the giggles during one of my regular prayers: O Lord, help me to keep my mouth shut and my lips sealed…
And now I’m off to a poetry reading.
Hooray!!
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Keep smiling!
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lovely etchings, but i wouldn’t hang them on my wall
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Heeheeheehee!
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You see how worthwhile it was for me to marry my dentist! Bravo for the tooth and the super glue (words not joined, deliberately) Have a good poetry reading.
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😀 I did 😀
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Yeah!!!!!
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Hooray for your dentist!
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Smile away!! 🙂
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Now this is what I call a post with some bite to it!
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Good for you TB! I’m smiling just reading about this. How did the reading go?
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Great! Post will follow.
Eventually 😀
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Glad you have such a good dentist. Takes forever to get into see my dentist and he costs an arm and a leg.
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My dentist is great; always fits people in in an emergency.
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I never heard of such an adhesive. Glad it worked for you.
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It’s a new one, the dentist said.
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and here I’ve been telling the kids for years: don’t put glue in your mouth!! ha!
Bravo and hooray: the laughing housewife gets her beautiful smile back just in time.
hope the poetry reading went well..
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Glad to see your beautiful smile back Tilly Bud!
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Seems to me…there is a poem in that story somewhere. 🙂 Glad you’re still smiling.
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I did write one, as it happens; and I have another in mind 🙂
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I think its remarkable your tooth broke while you were eating corn on the cob. Two questions: Will you ever eat corn on the cob again? Is your dentist Ben Harper by any chance?
Remember, when you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you. Dianne
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I’d rather pull my own teeth than go to Ben Harper!
Sadly, I think that’s the last cotc for me… 😦 I daren’t take the chance of it happening again.
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Excellent outcome! I do hope the poetry reading was very satisfying! 🙂
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Toothally impressed. Those teeth are beautifully aligned.
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Etch will make tooth stronger than friction? 🙂
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he did a great job, I can’t even tell!!!
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Modern dentistry is positively miraculous. SO glad your dentist sorted that tooth out, Tilly. Now you need to test drive that smile 😀
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Huzzah!!! Congratulations on a speedy recovery and a miracle working dentist!
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Yay for you, Tilly. Love that prayer. We should all pray it, often. 😀
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Amen to that 🙂
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