NO MORE IMPLANT SURGERY
My life guys. Seriously it’s awesome. I’m done. DONE I TELL YOU!
Of course as soon as I get home, I bend down to play with my dog and she headbutts me in the nose (which if you haven’t heard me say it before, it’s been broken a few times and is the only part of my face that ever gets hit, mostly by basketballs or other peoples heads) and made me cry.
Okay, so she barely headbutted me, but it hurt like a bitch. All you have to do is lightly touch my nose and I get dizzy or start crying. It’s pathetic.
Adding that to my list of problems.
A Curious Case Of Foreign Accent Syndrome
npr.orgWhen Karen Butler went in for dental surgery, she left with more than numb gums: She also picked up a pronounced foreign accent. It wasn’t a fluke, or a joke — she’d developed a rare condition called foreign accent syndrome that’s usually caused by an injury to the part of the brain that controls speech.
Butler was born in Bloomington, Ill., and moved to Oregon when she was a baby. She’s never traveled to Europe or lived in a foreign country — she’s an American, she says, “born and bred.”
But she doesn’t sound like one anymore. Her accent is now a hodgepodge of English, Irish and perhaps a bit of other European accents.
The problem started about a year and a half ago, when she was put under anesthesia while the dentist removed several teeth.
“I just went to sleep and I woke up and my mouth was all sore and swollen, and I talked funny. And the dentist said, ‘You’ll talk normal when the swelling goes down,’ ” Butler says.
The swelling soon went away, but the foreign accent didn’t. Neurologist Ted Lowenkopf, director of the Providence Stroke Center in Portland, diagnosed her with foreign accent syndrome, a rare neurological disorder. […]
All on Four Dental Implants – Get a New Smile in a Day
Each tooth in your mouth serves a particular function, so the loss of even one may significantly affect your day-to-day activities such as biting into foods, chewing or talking.
Traditional alternatives to missing teeth include dentures and dental bridges.
Dentures are inexpensive removable teeth, but not only are they aesthetically unappealing but their functionality is also limited. Dentures need to be fixed to your gums using messy adhesives; they cause a slur in your speech, bad breath and may even slip as you are laughing or talking. How embarrassing!
Dental bridges are a more permanent option; they are fixed to existing healthy teeth, essentially forming a bridge across the missing teeth. This means that the neighboring teeth have to be modified to accommodate dental bridges.
So I had my wisdom teeth taken out today
Before being called into the room, I was watching Grey’s Anatomy on the television. A bunch of people had been in a helicopter crash. This is key.
Well I woke up about an hour later, on a cot, no clue where I was. I sat up immediately and couldn’t talk or really see, and I felt my mom next to me, and I started screaming for my Piplup. Where was my Piplup?
Yes, I woke up believing that I was a Pokemon trainer, that I was in a Pokemon Center, and that my Piplup and I had been in a helicopter crash. I thought that Piplup was dead and kept shouting for them to take me to my Piplup.
Apparently this went on for about fifteen minutes, with my mom dying and the nurses dying. I remember one of them asking if I liked Pokemon, to which my mom replied “Yes, but not this much.”
And then once I realized where and who I was, I took my phone and texted a friend I’m very attracted to and told her she was beautiful and sexy like when a Feebas evolves.
It was a strange day.
Could use some prayers for my old dog, Winston...
He goes in for emergency dental surgery tomorrow morning and with his heart problems, there’s a chance he won’t make it. He’s just shy of 16 years old and his health has been on the decline for the past year, but he still loves his life and acts like a puppy all the time…
I’ve had him since I was 5 years old and I don’t think I could handle it right now if anything happened to him. It hasn’t sunk in yet that I could lose him.
If any of you pray… he could really use some. Or just keep him in your thoughts.
Seriously guys, this is the FINAL dental appointment.
For real. The real final moment. The truly last appointment I will have in England.
My gum graft is healed and I’m just going in for a checkup to make sure nothing is going wrong and to possible remove some stitches (though I already accidentally pulled out the ones on the roof of my mouth, oops).
This is it people. After this, as long as all is well, which with my luck it very well may not be, my dental implant adventure will be done. FINALLY.
So, please let nothing go wrong. Seriously. I’ve had enough.
