Jan. 5th, 2008

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OK, 

So I'm at the dentist, because one of my crowns needed replacing. Three weeks ago, they took off the old one, made the impression, gave me the temp crown & now the new one was in. So, they get to work & pull off the old crown, show me the nice new gold crown (Shiny!), and get to work. Test fit, shave a bit off the crown here, test fit again, shave a bit off there, test fit again, a bit more shaving, ALMOST there... so we get down to the last adjustment, and while she is trying to remove it the last time, I feel something drop into the back of my throat!!. Automatically, my throat reacts & swallows! I immediately bolt upright desperately trying to stop mid-swallow, & ask (already knowing the answer), WHAT WAS THAT? Of course it was the gold crown, now partially stuck in my throat trying to decide weather to keep going down or set up a new home.  I spend the next moment or two trying to bring it back up, without vomiting, to no avail. Finally the dentist dejectedly (is that a word?), gives me a glass of water & tells me that we are pretty much out of luck (unless I vomit, and I have NEVER been able to induce this). 
Then, with us both realizing there is some humor in this, she tells me that I could always watch for it "upon exit", because it could be sent to a lab to be disinfected/sanitized & still used (although she wouldn't recommend this course of action), OR we create a new mold, and I come back in two weeks.

I chose the two week wait.   

Still seeing the humor in this, I did ask how much the crown is approximately worth. Her guess, approx $80-$100.
So I refer back to my Subject: That's gonna be some expensive sh*t, OR What would YOU do?

(Thankfully they still had my temp crown so that I didn't have to waste even more time getting that recreated as well )
Welcome to my Saturday morning.
Yeesh

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