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Yes, what you are seeing in the slightly gross picture to the right is a gold tooth. I've needed this work for years now. As you can see from the neighbouring teeth I already have enough metal in my mouth to make me mad as a hatter (good, old-fashioned mercury fillings - explains a few thing about my personality, eh?). This particular tooth had been filled to the point where when the filling eventually was to wear out, there would not have been enough actual tooth left to hold another filling, thus the need to drop a proton and go gold. This should, barring toffee accidents, last the rest of my life. There is about 0.2 oz. of gold in my face now. I'm horribly amused by this. I always said that when I finished paying my student loan off I would start buying gold. My last student loan payment came out yesterday...
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Date: 2005-01-19 04:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 05:04 am (UTC)Needing the root canal threw me. The dentist asked me if I had ever been hit in the face. I said, "No" thinking that he ment "recently", but apparently a good smack in the face (of which I had many as a kid and teenager - fists, knees, feet, soft-balls, soccer balls, falling on my face, etc.) can end up with a dying nerve and a root canal more than a decade later. Weird, huh?
And, since you are a photographer, it isn't really a close up. It's actually a close crop of telephoto shot taken from about 4' away with a really bright flash. It was the only way I could think of to illuminate the inside of my mouth.
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:52 am (UTC)*shutter* OMG.. I can't even imagine that!
Thanks god I was blessed by the tooth fairy.
That must have been expensive work to have done!
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