So yeah. I didn’t finish the end of the story. Long story short: my glued-together front tooth was a major source of stress during the rest of my trip! The Super Glue substitute lasted 24 hours and then the veneer fell off again. I glued it back on the next day and spent the rest of the trip just waiting for the next time it would fall off! Remember, I still had a week to go on this trip!
It became almost comical when I had to sit down for a formal Chinese meal with my factory people! During one factory visit, we ate lunch in the canteen where the workers eat. Dim Sum. Yum. I love that stuff. But sometimes it’s hard to eat even when you have all of your teeth in working shape. Imagine trying to eat a chicken claw! I had to pass on that one. The rest of the time, I had to ask for a knife and fork (ugly American) so that I could cut my food up into little tiny pieces before using the chopsticks to pick the tiny pieces up and eat them! I’m sure I looked ridiculous. Eventually, I learned to just open my mouth real wide and shove the food in and chew s-l-o-w-l-y and carefully. One would think that I could have lost a couple of pounds on this trip. Au contraire, mon frere! I fell in love with the food over there! I ate lots.
Anyway. I got through the trip with no more dental incidents, thank goodness!
Now my dilemma is my dentist!! See, I had my two front teeth “fixed” with porcelain veneers a couple of years ago because of some discoloration that I had been sensitive about ever since I was a kid. This is the only cosmetic thing I’ve really ever done, and I guess all I can say is that the cosmetics gods do not smile upon me at all. I’ve had more problems with these things than I could ever imagine. Even bigger is the problem that my dentists keep skipping town!! I was going to a place on my DMO plan. They have a pool of dentists, and I had tried to go to one my best friend went to. This guy had done hers, but I couldn’t get in to see him and ended up going to someone else to have the procedure done. Well, I flossed one off a couple of years ago, so when I went back to get it repaired the guy was no longer there. So I got to see the guy who did my best friend’s teeth, and he fixed it…and now that guy is not there! When I went back, I had a consultation with some sort of freaky doctor who acted like he was too good to fix my tooth. So I left. I wouldn’t let him do anything except look in my mouth.
Forget it. I’m going to see a completely new dentist tomorrow. I hope and pray to the cosmetics (porcelain?) gods that my tooth gets fixed once and for all. I know it’s not all going to all happen at one time tomorrow. No. They have to do another mold—I HATE THAT!!! And then they have to special order the new veneer. So that have to put a temporary thingie on. And then I get to go back in a couple of weeks. That’s when they rip the temporary thingie out and make the gums bleed like a stuck pig! Oh joy! I can’t wait!
Grumble.
I am taking a personal day tomorrow because I know my mood after this is not going to be all that wonderful.
Speaking of wonderful, I broke down and cried at work today…but that’s another story.
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