{"id":119,"date":"2009-05-22T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-06-24T13:17:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:17:21","slug":"these-teeth-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/these-teeth-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"These Teeth of Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"squid-teeth by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/3554512120\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3566\/3554512120_1a49ff75cf_m.jpg\" alt=\"squid-teeth\" width=\"239\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I went to my dentist for the final appointment in my epic teeth adventure that has lasted oh these last five months.  He drilled, filled, and re-x-rayed. Sadly, Rhonda, my hygienist was out with a headache and I got to experience the joy of the intern. Yay.<\/p>\n<p>I asked him about one of the fillings he did in March that had a small stain or something in it.  I thought it was a piece of something that had stuck in the ceramic (I chose porcelain fillings over silver &#8211; they are reported to last longer, plus &#8211; bonus! &#8211; your teeth still look like teeth since the porcelain is white), but he determined that it was a stain of some sort.  As a result, he is going to redo that filling on his dime next month when I go in for my six month check-up. Just what I was looking forward to: more drilling!<\/p>\n<p>Also, we looked at the x-rays and there may be something up with one of my old fillings from years ago, so we must monitor that one. I told him I&#8217;ve about had it in terms of fillings, so that one won&#8217;t happen for at least another six months.<\/p>\n<p>God, 2009 shall be known as the year that Teeth Ate My Bank Account.  I&#8217;m at about $1900 spent since December. Yesterday, my woe was apparently made known because he knocked off the price of the X-rays. I was expecting another $550 bill.<\/p>\n<p>Just FYI: if you don&#8217;t have insurance, dental appointments can cost more than remodelling your two bathrooms (and I should know :P).<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I am on a first name basis with everyone in the dentist&#8217;s office!<\/p>\n<p>This weekend is a three-day weekend, and I am going to rock it by sleeping a lot. I put in my vacation for July, and it was approved, so that&#8217;s nice.  I&#8217;m going to go see Sarah in LA and probably paint my hall, den, and vanity area.<\/p>\n<p>It is a thrilling life I lead.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/these-teeth-of-mine\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went to my dentist for the final appointment in my epic teeth adventure that has lasted oh these last five months. He drilled, filled, and re-x-rayed. Sadly, Rhonda, my hygienist was out with a headache and I got to experience the joy of the intern. Yay. I asked him about one of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/these-teeth-of-mine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;These Teeth of Mine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,6,196],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-healthwellness","category-moaning-and-groaning","category-real-life","tag-the-thrill-of-the-dentist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}