Leeroy hit me in the mouth a week ago. I went to my dentist on Thursday and it was… well… lets just say my tooth is not going to fall out… yet.
He did a root canal and had to re-shape my tooth with a drill. Turns out Leeroy hit me so hard that he not only knocked it loose, he actually re-positioned the tooth and now the lower right corner was blocking my ability to bite down all the way. All this meant that my tooth was healing (sort of, keep reading) but in a different place than it should.
He said if he could have gotten to it right away he could re-position it, but since it had been a couple of days he had to re-shape it. Not only that, but there was a huge apses forming above my tooth and if I would have left it, the tooth would have been rejected by my body in a couple months anyways.
So he did a root canal, reshaped it, and I’m going back next Monday for a follow up and some more adjustments. I does still hurt and I can bite anything with the tooth, but Advil works wonders and I can eat things if I cut them up. There is still a danger that I cracked the root of my tooth and if that happened I could loose the tooth, but not for a long time (possibly decades).
So yeah… I don’t have pirate teeth yet and I’m very happy that I am not one of the 1/3 Americans who do not have dental insurance. Even if it did end up falling out in 10 years, maybe I could get a cool ass gold tooth and become a rapper. Maybe.