Gah! Dentist!

So lately I've had a tooth ache that's been on and off bothersome for the past few months. I'd wake up with a dull ache some mornings in my jaw but it'd go away by breakfast.

For the past week and a half or two weeks, it's been hurting almost every day, even to the point where I've needed to take Advil. And I was hesitant to go to the dentist because I was worried I'd have to get a root canal since the pain was so far down.

But of course I didn't want it to get worse. And I made the appointment, luckily enough on election day, so I could kill 2 birds (3 if you include laundry) with one trip home.

So I'm sitting in the chair and he's poking around to see what hurts, doing the awfulness with the air puffs and settled on an x-ray to see what was going on. He also gave me some novicane to help with the pain and incase he needed to do any work.

Well the x-ray came back and there was a big dark spot down by the root of my tooth. And absess. Ugh.

So he drilled a hole in my filling and basically performed a root canal, inserting these long bristly things down into my tooth, down to the root and cleaning out the absess. Also meaning it was releaving the pressure. Once it was all clean he added a little medicine to stop the bacteria growth and put a temporary filling back in. I have my script for penicillin now and I have to go back for the 2nd half of the procedure.

I'm just waiting for the numbness to go away so I can chew and swallow again cause I'm hungry!!

God I really do hate going to the dentist!