Just jawing

[melchar]

Cooler weather now, so happier. It's been 10 days since the extraction and I go back to the dentist [jaw specialist] tomorrow morn to make sure it's all healing up right. Most of the pain has ebbed - but the -hole- is there and it bothers me. When I lost the -other- tooth 30 years ago the gum receded almost immediately and the jaw smoothed out. This feels like my jaw is waiting for the tooth to come back. Kind of creepy.

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[melchar.livejournal.com]

I has the lower right back molar out 25 years ago and that space smoothed out and has given me no problem. *This* one ... argh!

Maybe because it is the top, upper back left molar, but the hole is just being such a pain! Stuff keeps hiding there, the gum is tender, the jaw still sore around the jaw hinge - and the dentist says -this- is normal. Gick! It just feels so wrong.

[Shakes head at this - and is glad the pain has faded so much. But -still- - this just reminds me of how my dad used to joke about how 'his side of the family' was built with bargain-basement parts and that -my- teeth were 'K-mart' blue light specials. ^_^]