Beginning Braces

Yesterday, I had the last of the cavities filled, which should mean that, if/when I decide to go ahead with braces, I should be ready. I'm cavity free for the first time in YEARS!! There will still have to be a peridontal checkup to make sure that that's all good to go, but I'm not anticipating any problems.

I have a second consult with an orthodontist next monday, so I'll be posting about how that goes shortly.

This time, even though it was a simple cavity, I was given Halcion again to take the edge off. That little wonder drug makes life so much easier, it's almost stupid. Yeah, I'm still hard to freeze, but I'm not all panicy about it... my state of mind during the filling was more along the line of "she's drilling... i feel nothing... still nothing... wow... if i do feel something, then i'll worry about it." As opposed to the non-Halcion-ated me, which does something like "Oh my god... this is gonna hurt... ok, this is gonna hurt... ok... this is gonna hurt... ARGH!!! It hurts, it hurts!!"

It is a pain in the butt that the drug knocks me out for a good 8-10 hours regardless of the length of the dental appointment, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

I'm excited for the next consult, however. 5 days to go.