It’s only been three months (four?) since I had a filling replaced with what the dentist called an overlay and the nightmare began. First, they made the overlay too tall, so I was constantly exerting pressure on a corner of the tooth. Then they ground it down and cracked it, so that anything I ate or drank went straight to the root (fun stuff, that). Finally, the dentist admitted failure and put on a temporary crown. Which immediately wore through in the center, leaving a little cement and a whole lot of nerve for every meal. Today I received the permanent crown. We’ll see how it goes. I like that it is smooth to the tongue and that it has no giant gaping holes in it. I don’t like the ring of grey cement all around it (which I’ve been promised will go away. The excess cement, not the crown).
What else? Well, I’ve been working and we have regular insurance again. Sure, the coverage sucks and is as much as our mortgage, and we had to go with four individual policies rather than a family policy to keep the whole thing under $2K per month, but at least we are insured. It must suck to be poor in America.
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