I have traintracks, choochoo Options

[Charmy]

This is my flirting face.

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The rainbow shines so hard on people's faces they're blinded.

Anyway, I got my braces on yesterday. I didn't even realise they started putting on the brackes until halfway through. It was the weirdest frikkin' thing. They put this red thing in my mouth to keep it open, trapped my tongue, had two beepy machines poking around my mouth, sucking, gooey stuff on my teeth, like, three metal appliances and a red spatula. Then they applied all the different colours. I intended to get rainbow, and it was the third suggestion she made when telling me about the colours. "You can get red, green, rainbow-" "Rainbow! That's what I wanted."

So now I smile rainbows.

THE RAINBOWS HURT.
But I'm getting used to it. I can hardly chew a thing though. I kind smoosh it around with my tongue and swallow it down.

Tell me about your braces experiences, because I'll have these on longer than 365 days and have plenty more to endure.

[Mizukithepanda]

That's ridiculous. If it just needed to be filled, he should've done that, since you have to fill the tooth after you finish the root canal anyway. Not to mention that the root canal is the larger hassle of a procedure. He probably wanted the fucking money. Fillings are cheap, but root canals cost thousands of dollars. (My mother actually knew one particularly nightmarish and horrific dentist who would go in after a patient was numbed up and on nitrous and use his tools to give them problems they'd need to get fixed for tons of money. *shudders*)

That said, root canals done when you aren't feeling any pain are generally either on teeth that have had a TON of work done on them, or, like in the case of my first one, the nerve is exposed. They really do need to do them then.

I'm also curious as to why you're nervous about it. Is it unfilled and just... open? Because, your new dentist should've seen to that immediately. Once it's filled, it's unlikely to be a problem. You technically CAN go without a crown on it for a long time, especially if you've still got most of your tooth structure left. On top of that, fillings and root canals tackle two completely different problems. You can't always do one procedure and fix the other problem with it. That's not how it works.

Your current dentist sounds like a complete moron. :/