The Oracle of Apollo Snippets from the life of Apollo Lee

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Aug 22, 2000 - 17:08

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New Crowns

Finally, I got my crowns today, at $750 a pop. Two molars on the right side will allow me to stop jawing everything on the left. I get to forever lose the plastic temporary crowns and get into some porcelain.

Of course, when I got to the dentist, she removed the temporary crown pretty easily, primarily because it had come off last week and I chewed it back down—making it stay put on the dental glue holding it in place. She started to scrape the glue off the top of the remaining molars with a pick. Eeew…tasted pretty much like I was chewing tin foil.

After the drugs, there was alot of sanding, polishing, and trimming. Finally, I walked out of the dentist with two new molars and two months to eat top ramen while the four checks I wrote to cover them clear. After that, a root canal on the top right, and I should be good to go. That one’s going to suck, so I’m going to put it off until after the new year, when my dental plan renews itself. That’ll take a pretty little dent out of the $900 root canal and $750 crown. If I can get away with only paying for half that, I’ll be a happy little camper.

But, now, I can go enjoy a Togo’s sandwich again, for the first time in quite a while. Nothing sucks worse than attempting to eat a big submarine sandwich, but you can only chew on one side.