Oral fixation in What's up

Not in the good way. I had the latest of God-knows how many oral surgeries Tuesday. Dating back to Thanksgiving, this is three so far, and so far, the worst. I’ve had an adult tooth impacted in the bone above my front teeth for, well, 47 years. The baby tooth has been hanging out in my smile since it came down, never to be replaced. It (the baby tooth) has been crowned once, and that crown, along with two others done by the same MF dentist four years ago, all broke. All those MFs broke because that MF dentist MF sucked. I actually do brush and floss at least twice a day.

Anyway, so the surgery Tuesday, by an actual qualified oral surgeon, was to remove the baby tooth AND the impacted adult tooth, and install a bone graft so I can have an implant uh, implanted. This required a 3D scan of my face hole, and some serious planning.

It also required about an hour and a half longer and twice the bone graft material (cadaver) they estimated. To complicate matters, the adult tooth was doing the job of the bone that should have been there, so removing it compromised ALL of the teeth on the right side of my mouth. I can’t chew for two weeks and I have attractive stitches around and between each of those teeth which are apparently being held in my head by prayer until the graft takes. Also, the entire roof of my mouth is stitched, which feels like a giant pizza burn.

It doesn’t hurt as much as you might think, but my face is nicely rounded. Only on that side though. There is not enough contour. Or Vicodin.

So that’s my week. Oh, hai.