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adrian_turtle) wrote2005-10-03 06:28 am
adrian_turtle) wrote2005-10-03 06:28 am
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new dentist
In the past, I've posted about problems with my NTI. When the dentist who made it for me (and used to do all the adjustments for free, or for very low cost) moved out of state, I should have found another NTI-dentist right then. Instead, I went to his old partner in Brookline, who didn't seem to take my problems seriously. Yes, there's a dental device I sleep with for headache mitigation. Yes, the main indication of something being wrong with the dental device is waking up with worse headaches than usual. No, it's not broken. But I've worn a groove in it, and it's starting to feel a little weird, and ... headaches, help! The old Brookline dentist understood this. The guy in the same office, not so much. The office being in *obscenity* Brookline, without evening hours, I am disinclined to go back.
I'm having problems with my mouth. Still, or again. Some of it is the NTI. The groove in it is wearing deeper, and I'm waking up with worse headaches. Of course, I've also been under a lot of stress lately, which is probably making me work harder at clenching my jaw. Not sure if I should mention that. When the NTI fit properly, it interrupted that reflex and my jaw relaxed when I slept, no matter how much angst I took to bed.
There's also my haunted tooth, #13. It had, over way too many years, a cracked filling, a painful metal crown, a root canal, an abcess, and an apicoectomy. I was thrilled with the root canal in 2002, because the tooth finally stopped hurting for the first time since 1998. It was scary to have it start hurting again early this year. The attempts to repair it this spring have been slow to heal, approaching an asymptote of "much better but not quite perfectly painless." Clenching my jaw makes tooth #13 hurt more. I'm the kind of idiot stoic to clench my jaw harder when I have toothache. Especially when I'm asleep and not thinking about it.
I'm going to see a new dentist this morning. I found his name on the NTI website, and chose him for proximity to my office and not having anything on the website that actively offended me. I made the appointment just to consult about the NTI, not for general dental care. (That was last week. Tooth #13 has been bothering me more since then.) We'll see how it goes.
I'm having problems with my mouth. Still, or again. Some of it is the NTI. The groove in it is wearing deeper, and I'm waking up with worse headaches. Of course, I've also been under a lot of stress lately, which is probably making me work harder at clenching my jaw. Not sure if I should mention that. When the NTI fit properly, it interrupted that reflex and my jaw relaxed when I slept, no matter how much angst I took to bed.
There's also my haunted tooth, #13. It had, over way too many years, a cracked filling, a painful metal crown, a root canal, an abcess, and an apicoectomy. I was thrilled with the root canal in 2002, because the tooth finally stopped hurting for the first time since 1998. It was scary to have it start hurting again early this year. The attempts to repair it this spring have been slow to heal, approaching an asymptote of "much better but not quite perfectly painless." Clenching my jaw makes tooth #13 hurt more. I'm the kind of idiot stoic to clench my jaw harder when I have toothache. Especially when I'm asleep and not thinking about it.
I'm going to see a new dentist this morning. I found his name on the NTI website, and chose him for proximity to my office and not having anything on the website that actively offended me. I made the appointment just to consult about the NTI, not for general dental care. (That was last week. Tooth #13 has been bothering me more since then.) We'll see how it goes.