When's the best time to go to a dentist?! Tooth-Hurty!

December!

I can now listen to the Nsync Christmas cd without feeling ridiculous. Sort of.

Being that it is December 1st, I was finally allowed to visit a dentist under my new insurance. (Actually, I was eligible a month ago... but when I looked up my designated "primary dental office", I saw a few online reviews of the doctor. They reported that 3/3 people had unpleasant experiences with him and that 3/3 would not recommend him to a friend. I decided that I would rather switch doctors right away than mess around with that. haha. The result then, was waiting a month to get my chipped front tooth smoothed out. I am happy to report that the problem has been resolved.

However, while I was there, they also decided to take some x-rays. They found 2 "small" cavities. He said that he could fill them right then, if I wanted. So I let him. But this turned out to be a somewhat traumatic event. While he was drilling my tooth, he asked me if my previous dentist let me see the cavity before he filled it. I answered yes (with a grunt and a head nod, as my mouth was incapable of answering), thinking that he was asking me whether or not he showed them to me on the x-rays. But I was wrong. After he drilled the tooth, he held up a mirror, and to my horror I saw one of my back molars with the back part of the tooth drilled out. I am pretty sure I never want to see such a thing in my life. Ever again. I thought it was a small cavity! Why was half of my tooth drilled out?!

In case you never knew it, my recurring nightmare is of my teeth falling out. And when I saw my own mouth with a huge gaping hole in one of my teeth, I kind of wanted leap from the chair and run!

This whole experience made me miss my old dentist! If only he accepted my insurance. I definitely feel like this new guy is just not as good as the old. My freshly filled cavities are all rugged and weird feeling. And the guy was a little bit weird.
I think I have decided that dentists should be changed as infrequently as possible. And I am also pretty sure that I am incapable of building the trust required for a tooth-filling in one office visit. Just when I thought I had overcome my fears of the dentist....... haha.

So depending on how you look at it, the good/bad thing is that I have another appointment on Saturday to get my teeth cleaned. Hopefully that appointment will be less traumatic. And I'll have awesomely clean teeth to boot.

In other news, I filled out the Geneva Psychology Department online survey today. Oh, to think of where I was a year ago. ....And where I'll be a year from now.