King Kevin

[kevin_standlee]

...because I'm now crowned. Twice (rearmost two lower right teeth), plus the one I already have. And another in the pipeline, as my dentist looked at the chipped tooth and said it's going to need a crown, too, although if it doesn't get any worse, maybe we can hold off until January. I really need to do that unless there's a major failure, because I've used up my entire dental benefit and exhausted my HCSA/FSA for this year. (In retrospect, I should have put aside $4K instead of $3K in my FSA; however, since you lose anything you don't use in the calendar year, I'm leery of over-withholding. How the heck are you supposed to predict these things? FSA's shouldn't expire every calendar year!) Everything resets in January and I'll come back then to get tooth 29 crowned.

The crowns feel funny, but I think that's because I now have gold-crown-on-gold-crown contact, on account of the upper tooth that was already crowned after the root canal earlier this year. I need to get used to the slightly different way my teeth mesh now, and try to not use that premolar for the next five months.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

"How the heck are you supposed to predict these things?"

That's exactly the point; they want you to gamble. They want you to feel like an entrepreneur. That's the new model: pretending that you're in charge of your life, to make you feel responsible for the unpredictabilities of fate. If you fail, that'll just teach you that you should have planned better. Be born to wealthy parents and then become a vulture capitalist like Mitt Romney, 'cause if you don't, you're a fool.

[a-cubed.livejournal.com]

"Ooh, new teeth" said Dr Who TEN(nant). I'm also slowly working my way through this kind of process. Only one permanent ceramic crown in place yet. Since I want implants for two missing top teeth we're putting medium term plastic ones in the teeth that need protecting from further deterioration in the meantime because the bracing and implants will change the bite, and these crowns are expensive, so I don't want to have to replace any of them soon.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Glad the work was finally done - and very much am there with you about the dental costs. Our dental only covered the 1st 3 crowns - the last one that became a root canal was all out of pocket. [sighs] I just hope the rest of MY teeth hold out until January. Good luck for your own teeth!

[retro-rider55.livejournal.com]

- you get in a lot of fights when you were younger? 'chipped teeth'? :P