The Tooth, The Whole Tooth, Nothing But The Tooth.


I played the staring role in a play by that name in 3rd grade. Penny’s experience this week brought that to mind. It is Penny’s turn to have a dental adventure.


Penny cracked a root in one of her teeth. This causes pain (which is masked some by her meds for her other health issue) and means that she will lose the tooth. The dental professionals have a wonderful system in place to insure everybody gets a cut of the money. Actually it is just a thorough process she is going through but, so far, 3 doctors have been paid for looking at the tooth and saying, “Yup, that tooth has to go.” She is seeing the same doctors I saw in my dental adventure earlier this year.


Today is the day that she has the tooth extracted. This whole process will take months. She has to heal from the extraction and the have a post put in that will act as an anchor for an implant to replace the tooth. After healing from the post procedure the tooth implant is fixed onto the post. I think Penny said it will take 4 months for the whole process.

Penny will be on soft food for a few days after today’s procedure.