Two bad teeth pulled
I went to the oral surgeon's today to have a bad tooth pulled -- a molar on my upper left jaw that had developed a very deep crack and was beyond mending, unfortunately. It started causing me excrutiating pain around July 4th, so I was quite happy to see it pulled.
While I was there, the doctor offered to take the root of another tooth that had broken a couple of years ago which I'd been ignoring. So this afternoon I've got a face full of novacaine and a head full of vicodin to make the rest of the day tolerable.
Hopefully these are the last extractions I'll have to deal with for quite some time.
I'm unclear exactly on why I've been having such extreme tooth problems, as I brush regularly and don't eat a lot of crap that would rot your teeth. Though I suspect leaving my diabetes untreated for as long as I did probably affected my dental health quite severely.
Anyway, I should be seeing my dentist again in a few weeks, when we're going to do a more thorough checkup and make sure I have a decent plan of attack plotted out for the future.