Exposed

When it rains it pours…

Trying to do the right thing and floss my teeth after I eat has been more problematic than I would have ever thought!

Don’t get me wrong, it’s well worth doing and my hygienist has always said my teeth and gums look great and to keep doing what I’ve been doing. However, and maybe it’s that darn “Murphy”, but I seem to keep running into issues with my teeth.

Today, for example, after eating lunch I grabbed a flosser like I’ve been doing and started flossing and cleaning between my teeth, when lo and behold one of my crowns popped right off -

I mean c’mon man! My mouth and teeth hurt enough as it is without these “other” issues, cut me some slack!

Although, there was no pain or sensitivity with the crown off, I was concerned about needing to go all holiday weekend long with it in that condition. I was worried that doing so just might cause issues or potentially damage the exposed tooth.

It just so happened that I was only several miles from my new dentists office so I popped on over and asked if I could be squeezed in and looked at and they were more than accommodating!

I was very fortunate that the crown simply popped off and was not damaged or broken, and because of that the dentist was able to simply re-glue the crown back in place! I caught a break, phew!

Dr Penland is terrific and I’m very thankful!