The Root in Hot town, summery in the city - 2017
- Aug. 23, 2021, 1:23 p.m.
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The history:
About two years before T was born, a wisdom tooth that i had had issues with for the previous 15 years was removed by a rather bog standard NHS dentist in town. It was a fairly quick procedure and once it was done I pretty much forgot about it (other than the incessant tongue wiggling in the gap).
When T was a few months old I felt some left over root digging into my gum. I returned to the dentist with T in her buggy who giggled a lot when I talked with my wobbly lips post injection đ¤Ł
She sat in her buggy while I lay on the dentist chair and they cut open my gum to remove the ârestâ of the root. She was fine about it because I jollied her along throughout (where possible).
the present:
The reason that ârest â was in inverted commas shall now become apparent. A few weeks ago (letâs not forget that T is now 15), i felt a little sharp bit poking out of my gum. The same place that my wisdom tooth had been.
Another bit of effing root!
So I spent a few weeks wobbling it back and forth with my tongue, enjoying the mild discomfort it caused and wondering if it would pop out. I was a little wary considering I didnât know what shape it was and I didnât want to cause any damage by ripping it out.
And yet; I couldnât quite resist getting my tweezers out, just to see if I could get hold of it with them. And it turns out that I could!
I wiggled and jiggled but was still a little reticent to yank the thing. But it felt so good to gently tug it.
So I wiggled and jiggled, pulled a little and then kept pulling. I felt it slide, felt it come loose and then felt this calming relief in my gum even though I hadnât realised how uncomfortable it had become.
And here it is. I would like to add, this was taken with a macro lens, the bit of root was no more than a millimetre long!
It was so satisfying that I almost want there to be another one so I can experience it again!!
Deleted user ⋅ August 23, 2021
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ermentrude Deleted user ⋅ August 23, 2021
Google translate doesnât have a translation for that đ
Deleted user ermentrude ⋅ August 23, 2021
It's one step shy of a vurp, more like a burp while the stomach is churning but nothing comes up into the esophagus, and that's the noise it makes, for me at least.
ermentrude Deleted user ⋅ August 23, 2021
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thesunnyabyss ⋅ August 23, 2021
Glad you were able to get it yourself, weird as it is, lol. Odd it would take so long to come out, but bodies are weird.
ermentrude thesunnyabyss ⋅ August 24, 2021
I think our bodies are pretty amazing; to find bit of tooth that are no longer attached and slowly reject them without causing internal damage is pretty cool. Why it has taken so long I donât know, unless it was linked to a filing I had in the next tooth about three years ago but it wasnât a root canal so I donât see how it could have been xx
thesunnyabyss ermentrude ⋅ August 24, 2021
Maybe the work on the bordering tooth just dislodged it enough to help it find it's way out? was the adjoining tooth drilled or anything, the vibrations might have done something, slowly, lol.
ermentrude thesunnyabyss ⋅ August 24, 2021
It was drilled yes but only a little; it was all done without the need for anaesthetic x
colojojo ⋅ January 03, 2022
This is why I never wanted to go to a dentist in the UK. I know people donât exactly speak of great dentist experiences, but I heard nothing but horror stories over there. And even if I was going to live there permanently, I was planning on having a dentist appointment in the states every time I came back. Ha. But gosh thatâs frustrating. I hope you werenât in too much pain after the rest came out.
ermentrude colojojo ⋅ January 03, 2022
Ha ha, I had forgotten about that. It was fine.
That dentist was the only one I ever had any problems with, my current dentist and any previous ones are/have been fab.