Soup and Ice Cream for Dinner

It had been a long time since I visited a dentist. Ultimately A. would have to insist. And when she did, it was a short hop from dentist to oral surgeon. You may be asking yourself what the appropriate photo for this post will be. Despite the three (3) teeth in a small manilla envelope on my dining table, I thought we'd go picture free - just this once.

Memorable moments along the way, include a dental hygienist describe my cleaning as, "removing barnacles from rock." She also asked me to stick out my tongue so that she could remove the accumulated plaque flakes from my tongue.

The oral surgeon removed those three teeth, and placed me on a soft food diet for the next seventy-two hours. This will make my other line of blogging , well, challenging. But it should contribute greatly to the health of my mouth.

Of the tooth extraction procedure, I will only say that despite a pineapple flavored numbing agent, a steady stream of nitrous, and the Mostly Mos' playlist on my iPod, the violence of tooth extraction was not lost on me. It came through mostly in the form of a vigorous back and forth motion as each tooth was removed by what looked shockingly like pliers.

Where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it...