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more tooth-clenching anxiety
When I left the office of the Woburn dentist, I was terribly impressed. I knew he had fixed my NTI. I thought he could fix my tooth alignment problems, if I wanted him to...the questions in my mind were all about whether I could afford it, and how much alignment-fixing is really needed. Hope is so tempting. But tooth-alignment scares me, partly because he was talking about filing teeth down, and I suspect having my teeth filed down (in addition to being monumentally unpleasant) contributed to the current cracking situation. He was also talking about orthodontia, which is just painful and expensive. Would it help? Do I trust him enough to pay him $1200 for a complete study and a start on fixing the problem? I don't think it's a scam like "Make Money Fast" is a scam. I'm afraid it might be a scam like "Chiropractic adjustments will cure whatever happens to be wrong with you, (and if you seem to be getting worse at first you need more chiropractic adjustments)" is a scam.
I slept with the adjusted NTI for one night and thought, "Well, maybe it's a little bit better. Tooth 13 hurts more, but the rest of my head doesn't hurt quite so much." I had an afternoon nap without the NTI (without even going to BED, just lying on the couch with a book), after which my whole head, particularly tooth 13, complained a lot and I felt stupid. After my second night with the NTI, my jaw aches in new and different places. Tooth 13 hurts a LOT. I woke up with an obvious muscle-tension headache and a sore neck. This afternoon, I concluded that my adjusted NTI is not "fixed."
I called the office of my old dentist, where the oral surgeon had done the apicoectomy on tooth 13, and made an appointment to have it removed tomorrow. Shortly after the apicoectomy, when I was fretting about the fact that it still hurt, the oral surgeon told me he would repeat the procedure at no charge if needed, or count the cost of the apicoectomy towards an extraction if I needed that. So I'm hoping the current problem has nothing to do with the oral surgeon being clumsy.
I don't know what to do about the NTI. Or the more general problem of aligning my teeth. The Woburn dentist said he could extract tooth 13 and make me an implant. Even if I trusted him to do the implant and alignment work, I couldn't afford to have him do the extraction. And I don't know if my current difficulty means I should not trust him about the NTI and aligning my teeth, or if it just means I should go back to have him adjust it again. It's hard to get a trustworthy second opinion about the NTI, which is new/weird technology.
I slept with the adjusted NTI for one night and thought, "Well, maybe it's a little bit better. Tooth 13 hurts more, but the rest of my head doesn't hurt quite so much." I had an afternoon nap without the NTI (without even going to BED, just lying on the couch with a book), after which my whole head, particularly tooth 13, complained a lot and I felt stupid. After my second night with the NTI, my jaw aches in new and different places. Tooth 13 hurts a LOT. I woke up with an obvious muscle-tension headache and a sore neck. This afternoon, I concluded that my adjusted NTI is not "fixed."
I called the office of my old dentist, where the oral surgeon had done the apicoectomy on tooth 13, and made an appointment to have it removed tomorrow. Shortly after the apicoectomy, when I was fretting about the fact that it still hurt, the oral surgeon told me he would repeat the procedure at no charge if needed, or count the cost of the apicoectomy towards an extraction if I needed that. So I'm hoping the current problem has nothing to do with the oral surgeon being clumsy.
I don't know what to do about the NTI. Or the more general problem of aligning my teeth. The Woburn dentist said he could extract tooth 13 and make me an implant. Even if I trusted him to do the implant and alignment work, I couldn't afford to have him do the extraction. And I don't know if my current difficulty means I should not trust him about the NTI and aligning my teeth, or if it just means I should go back to have him adjust it again. It's hard to get a trustworthy second opinion about the NTI, which is new/weird technology.