This week in "What's Rustlin' Haus?"
Coming to the realization that the Dentist I went to to get a lot of dental work done 20 years ago sucked ass. I'll admit I'm not the best dental patient, at the time I had an insane phobia of dentists, to the point I basically had to knock myself out on diazepam to make it through getting work done, and because of that hadn't been to a dentist in a decade before that until meeting
Mrs. Haus
and her getting me to get things done. But I had 3-4 wisdom teeth come in perpendicular, impacting molars and damaging shit, and I never noticed because apparently for some reason I feel almost no pain in my teeth. That was 20 years ago. He had to get those out, pull 3 of 4 back molars which were terminally destroyed, and do a couple root canals, and a couple fillings, for other issues I had going on. (Yeah, I might as well be considered honorary British with this grill..)
Fast forward a little over 20 years...
Have a crown come off when eating, I didn't realize until I bit down on something. Not only did the crown come off, the one chew caused it to impact the tooth under it which had a filling. Apparently that filling wasn't done well/in the modern fashion, and it caused that tooth to crack which I didn't realize at the time. Go in to a new dentist, who honestly seems cool, explains shit well, and for some reason I don't get knotted up with paranoia walking in... He scans shit, and comes back showing me the horror show in my mouth. Root canaled tooth is going to have to be filled down and the build up redone because there was never really enough of a post for the crown to adhere to well. Tooth under it is broken up to the point that it's now going to have to have a root canal as well. To his credit he's able to pull all this off without me really feeling a damn thing. He shows me the crown on the other side, and points out "see how whoever put this on left this little gap here between the tooth and the crown on this side? That's wrong, there should be a tight seal. It will have to be replaced at some point, we'll figure that out next..."
In the ensuing week waiting for the perm crowns to arrive for the left side of my mouth the crown on the right side pops off while I'm eating that most vile of foods and my guilty pleasure.... Nerd's Gummy Clusters. The crown has a chunk of the tooth still glued to it... I figure it means he'll have to now do that work.
Go back in, he agrees, that he'll have to clean things up , rebuild the build up, and get a new crown. He gets 5 minutes in on it and stops. Wheels his chair back and says "Dude, there's not enough tooth left in there to work with. The gap let shit get under the crown and essentially ate the tooth from the inside. Let me refer you to an oral surgeon..."
Oral surgeon consult goes smoothly, but now, even with insurance, I'm going to be out around $3k for this implant.
My old dentist I can't even find in N. Texas any more, so he's either gone out of business, moved, or retired.... And he sucks.
Bonus footage : The 3d scan of the carnage from the oral surgeon... The party is to the right in this pic...
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