New Front Tooth

"I can suck a straw and talk as well!"

Finally, after 2 and half months and nearly $4000 spent on ONE tooth, i have a brand new front tooth and it looks......amazing.

It is difficult to describe but it looks so real i would not even know, even the gum looks healthy. jeez what an episode, which i would not have been able to do so fast if my mum did not fork up half the $$ for the treatment.

I tells ya, dental care should be more subsided in this country. I am just lucky i could afford do something about it.

Anyway after weeks of chopping my food into bite sized chunks or chewing away from my front teeth (which is very hard, try it!) i christened my new chomper on a ham and cheese sandwich. Hardly a glam unit but still was the best sandwich i have had in ages. My dentist (who does Miss Australia and Craig Wing) said i can pretty much eat anything bar biting ice cubes and watch apples. who bites ices with their front teeth???

Hopefully the dramatic teeth chapter of my life is closed for a few years now.

Tooth

hey, went and saw a new dentist. Who was so nice and had this great team in Woollahra. Quoted me $1600 for the entire job and also said the guy i saw was a total shark and known to overcharge. Pity i am on this side of my $850 before finding that out, but i needed my tooth put back in. Anyhoo after fashion week, i will start my root canal therapy and then have a new chomper. I think i will call it Ploppy.

Good outcome!

'All i want for xmas is my front tooth'

Well, i have bad karma or something this year. Just as i am getting over the hospital event, i was sitting down this Sunday to a tasty BLT and my fake front tooth fell out! I was horrified, in a sub hysterical tizzy i hence forth found a 24/7 dentist and went and paid $850 to have the tooth fixed back into the yellow stump. I then found out the problem was much bigger than a bit of super glue, the issue is i have an infection in my gum due to a bad root canal when it first happened. You see it was 7 years ago in NYC and i slipped on ice and smashed out my tooth. I was living in London and sans insurance, so i found a dentist who stabilised the tooth for my flight home. Unfortunately it was not done well and i have ended up now with an abscess. So now i am looking at out about $4000 worth of work to clean out my tooth, new root canal, reconstruction of the post and a new porcelain cap. Suffice to say i was quite upset, but now realise i have to do it or my tooth will keep popping out to say hello to my sandwiches. So i am going to see a dentist tomorrow for a second opinion and search for dentists with long term payment plans so i can get it done ASAP.

Bit sucky but hey at least i do not have a brain aneurysm!