Best of luck man.

You guys ever have someone pass out in the dental chair? I swear I almost did while having a panic attack. Getting a root canal I was feeling lightheaded and seeing colors. Asshole wouldnt put the chair up for a second. Felt woozy as **** the whole hour sitting there. Needless to say hes not my dentist anymore.

I had an olive that was mostly pitted, that cost me..

LMAO.

Had a few pass out. No big deal

I had some quality time with my dentist today for the bone grafting I need before I can get my implants. As he’s stitching me up he goes just outside of the numb zone once. It wasn’t super painful but, unlike most everything else he’d done to that point I felt a solid sting and made a little groan just to communicate that to him. Not to complain, just to give him feedback so that he would know and decide if he needed to do something about it -

Him: Did you feel that?

Me: Mmhmm

Him: Well I’m only going there the one time so just suck it up. *laughs*

I “chuckled” along the best I could in my condition because I know from his personality that he was just joking. Well, mostly anyway. I can certainly see how there might be a sadist streak running through him. :)

Honestly though, this is the second procedure he’s done on me in this process and it has been a dream compared to what I have expected.

About 5 years ago I had two wisdom teeth that needed to be pulled. My dentist kept putting it off even though I insisted he pull them as soon as possible. He finally lets me make an appointment and two weeks before the appointment one of the teeth starts throbbing in the worst pain I have probably ever felt in my life. I called the next day to see if he could move it up, they said the best they could do was bump it up a week. Fuuuuuck. So for an entire week I had to put on that oral jel crap just to make it through. I shivered in relief when he pulled those frickers.

Dental newsletter from Dr O.city:

Pretty eventful day here at the office. One of my ortho kids got undercut going up for a layup on the basketball court and his face took the brunt of the fall. They took him to the ER last night after, ER doc said to get in touch with the dentist and they gave him pain meds. He was here at 830 this am, upon one look I realized that the only thing keeping his front 2 teeth in were the bracket and wires and that his maxilla (the bone under your nose that holds teeth in) was pretty much shattered.

I anesthetize everywhere, take the wires off the brackets and the two teeth fall out. I start pulling chunks of bone out from the socket site until I get to solid attached bone. Luckily for him, it wasn't much fractured bone, but the teeth were snapped off with only small root tips left, so we extracted those and stitched him up. I took my diamond coated drill and smoothed the crowns of the teeth up and rigged them back on the wire for now so he'll have a couple front teeth for the next few weeks while he's healing.

Pretty interesting ordeal.

Then this afternoon I did a root canal and crown on one of my amish patients and he traded me a half butchered and packaged hog and a third of a cow packaged and 20 lbs of chicken they butchered over the weekend.

So I think I came out ahead on that transaction, now I just have to figure out how to get all this shit home to the deep freeze

There is an Amish guy in my area who repairs boots, has a sawmill and makes dentures for $200/set. Among the more poor people, they claim they're actually pretty good.

I traded a chiropractic adjustment for a bottle of honey a while back.

That sounds ****ing terrible.

Sucks for the kid. Landing on your face is no joke.

Best thing about the barter business is you don't have to pay Income Tax. Color me jealous. Fat boy loves (legally) averting taxes.

Long term what are you going to do? Put some of those screw in fake teeth?

Actually, doesn't barter technically have to be reported as income? I realize that no one ever does it, but I'm not sure he's legally avoiding taxes with that setup.

I was on a train this weekend and an Amish girl smiled at me. I wasn't sure if I had to marry her or not.

Pretty sure bartering is reportable income. But i'd destroy the invoice . No wait , that would be illegal. So gotta do the procedure on the weekend as a favor.

He owes the IRS 8 hamburgers, and a 1/2 chicken. Good luck collecting on that.

Once he finishes growing we’ll have some implants placed

Biggest thing we wanna do now is keep the bone level there stable which will be a bitch