What if it Snows?

You need to have it extracted.

The problem is that if your root is deep enough there is your sinus cavity up top of your mouth. If the root is down into your bone at the bottom the blood supply will carry that bacteria to your heart and collect at the valves as a inflammation and infect until your heart enters a special time mode for what is called a heart block. Meaning the top half does not get timing anymore and the bottom has no choice but to do the work for the whole thing until it fails after getting tired. And then they bury you.

The sinus infections or abcesses are more dangerous. Your brain is around a inch or two from that area. If the infection or abscess gets to it you will have a very interesting death. And not a good one at all. Sometimes teeth have to come out. No one likes to have teeth come out. Last week I had to have a tooth out after it got infected and tried to get into my brain. The doctor put in big novacaine into the tooth nerve and gave me 4 tiny doses of ketamine around the tooth before placing the plies on it. A little wriggle and its out. Like a bad tooth. No nitrous gas either I was running about 200 over 130 just prior to. I told them proceed. Ignore that number. Place does not use gas and there were no time to get narcotics at the pharmacy, the tooth is coming out now.

The billing? Came to 460, two dental insurances knocked it to 70 and I paid that cash. If they used IV anesthesia it would be another thousand. It also helped that the dentist was a Surgeon in his own right. Not just a regular dentist. And I would be like the absolute worst patient. There was a assistent who happened to be spanish and she settled me down nicely. But it had to come out. And 1500 mg of antibiotics for 8 days per day.

A backstory, my father either through genetics or through food environment lost his teeth at 21. I have the same issue mouthwide and will eventually have the teeth replaced. With either implants on jaws or denture sets. So it makes the situation relatively simple. Just expensive. with three seperate insurance policies paying a portion of the work it's still going to come out to thousands either way.

I spent too many years of my life with no medical care in trucking unless it's too big of a burn or owie to the ER. Dentists were only to see if you still had teeth after a smash or a fight. Some of those boys can hit. I am looking forward to new teeth, but in the mean time I intend to get as much mileage as I can out of the old ones.

 

Im gonna :1up: your story.

My ex wifes uncle worked at Old Tucson Studios as a kid. Apparently Marion Morrison took a liking to him and when he was in town filming, he'd take my ex's uncle with around with him as a gofer of sorts (go fer this, go fer that). He'd have him go check the restroom before he'd go pee to make sure it was empty because apparently people would bother him while he would be peeing.

Always thought he was full of ####, but my ex-mil confirmed it was true.

 

Let me ask my wife what your best course of action is for you. She has 8yrs in dentistry.

 

Novacaine hasn't bee used in decades in dentistry. Ketamine doesn't get injected. You didn't get prescribed 1500mg of "antibiotics" as a loading dose is only 1000mg and only for 7 days.

 

@Rocks

Do you know if you have fractured root tip or does the tooth have multiple roots? Do you know what tooth it is?

 

Thats one of my favorite truck stops

 

Do you remember the Truckers Inn in Jessup?

 

My 2 weeks of van duty is over. I don’t know how y’all deal with it. Much respect. 10x harder in a van imo

I’m free!!!

 

I prefer a van. I am sheltered to the elements, no God awful tarps, secure stuff to the walls

Ok it makes for a helluva sail in windy conditions when empty.