one thing down!
Jun. 15th, 2012 06:38 pmMy last six-month dental checkup was scheduled for my last day of work. It seemed awkward to take a couple hours off from my last day, so I just cancelled the appointment, and figured I'd get dentalized once I got where I was going.
It took a few months to get insurance straightened out, and by then I'd forgotten all about the dentist. So when I went in for a checkup today it'd been at least eighteen months since my last one.
Every time I go into a new dentist's office I'm amazed by the march of technology. Most of the 'scraping' was done by highly focused jets of water: all the sharpness with less of the horrid scrapy feeling. And not only do X-rays process immediately and load up in some Windows application, there's some sort of panorama X-ray camera that I stand more or less inside while it whirrs around my head. The future is a strange place.
No new cavities, which is something of a minor miracle. She wants to replace one crown (the twelve-year-old one), replace two ginormous and ancient fillings with crowns, and redo a couple of fillings that are next to crowns on the bottom. Next week, or the week after, I guess.
Total cost to me for a cleaning and a full set of X-rays: $31.37. If this be the fruits of socialized medicine, sign me up.
It took a few months to get insurance straightened out, and by then I'd forgotten all about the dentist. So when I went in for a checkup today it'd been at least eighteen months since my last one.
Every time I go into a new dentist's office I'm amazed by the march of technology. Most of the 'scraping' was done by highly focused jets of water: all the sharpness with less of the horrid scrapy feeling. And not only do X-rays process immediately and load up in some Windows application, there's some sort of panorama X-ray camera that I stand more or less inside while it whirrs around my head. The future is a strange place.
No new cavities, which is something of a minor miracle. She wants to replace one crown (the twelve-year-old one), replace two ginormous and ancient fillings with crowns, and redo a couple of fillings that are next to crowns on the bottom. Next week, or the week after, I guess.
Total cost to me for a cleaning and a full set of X-rays: $31.37. If this be the fruits of socialized medicine, sign me up.