This blog initially started as a way to keep family members up to date on the daily antics of Aidan. However, it has turned into the stories of a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together! Now that's happiness!!
Monday, December 11, 2006
December 11, 2006
On Sunday, after church, we took Aidan to the museum. Of course, we all headed for a nap upon our return home. For some reason, I have been clenching my teeth lately, when I sleep. I must have done it alot during my nap on Sunday because when I woke up I had a major toothache. The pain continued throughout the day and night and this morning I called the dentist. After spending two hours in the dentist office, they are still not sure what the problem is. They have ruled out a cavity, a tooth fracture and a bunch of other dentist phrases and think that due to all of the clenching, that I have changed my bite, hence, the pain. He filed down some of my teeth to try and change my bite back. I can feel that my bite has changed but I am still in a ton of pain when I bite. He said I have to give the new bite about a week and the teeth a couple of days to get used to it and hopefully the pain will ease. I have to go back on Monday, to "see how things are progressing." Therefore, this blog entry is going to be really short because I am in alot of pain and have taken many pain killers.....and am headed straight to bed.
I hope you feel better. Having a screwed up bite is never fun and seems to last way too long.
ReplyDeleteI clench my teeth too. Mostly when I'm mad, upset or stressing. Right before Thanksgiving part of my bottom molar broke off. When I went to the dentist she said the tooth was healthy, and it probably broke from the stress of me clenching. You can get a bite guard for bedtime, which is supposed to help. They cost a lot from the dentist though. I had one when I still lived at home, but when they took the mold of my teeth, I had closed my mouth different than normal. So the guard didn't fit. After I had realized what I did, it was too late, and it cost way too much to get a new one. Just some fyi
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