dental damn

It all started innocently enough with a trip to the dentist monday. I hadn't been in a couple years, so I wasn't totally surprised that I had some cavities. The dentist told me not to beat myself up about it , though, since they were really small and in tough to clean areas of the teeth. They were on either side of my mouth so we scheduled to do them in two visits, the first of which was wednesday afternoon. So even though I wasn't so stoked to get novocaine injections, it was nice to leave the office a bit early.

The dentist gave me 3 shots, then drilled out the cavities, and handed me over to one of the hygienists to fill the holes. They use this weird ceramic stuff now that they squirt in the hole, then dry with an infrared light. Sounds easy enough, that is until the dentist came back and said, "Oops looks like we had a spill." Since I was numbed up pretty good, I couldn't feel the chemical burn on my lip & chin from when the hygienist spilled the filling ceramic on me. Great. My face was puffed out and it looked like that whole lip fiasco all over again.

I freaked and went immediately to the hospital, conveniently located across the street from my house. I figured I should get this whole fiasco documented justin case. Anyway it was indeed a burn caused by the dental goo. The dentist paid for everything and offered to do my next fillings for free which is the least he could do. Now I just have to wait for it to heal...