update on #18 (concert adjacent)
Apr. 28th, 2026 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwA week ago I was told that #18 needed to go.
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/1048278.html
I called the periodontist. Wednesday they called to say they'd had a cancellation for the next day (Thursday, two days before I was going to fly to Tampa). My Thursdays often involve driving a friend to Dana Farber (and hanging out with her for the day). We agreed that the tooth opportunity was important, so I was with her for much of the day and then a different friend drove her home. I had looked at the standard guidance for post-extraction. The top thing was "don't fly for two weeks." * I assumed that my appointment would basically be a checkup to see what she thought she could do. Nope. She and the assistant were planning to remove the tooth. I pointed out the no-flying thing and said that I would be flying four times in those two weeks. She waved it away, saying that it's more of a problem with upper teeth. #18 was on the bottom. She gave me a few minutes to consider. I called Flo, who said that if the expert said it would be OK, go ahead. I agreed (with Flo) and agreed (to the procedure). It took about an hour. She prescribed a week of amoxicillin and a medicated rinse (you're not supposed to swish - you tilt your head and let it pool up around the wound for 30 seconds twice a day). I was told to eat mush food for a couple of days, no nuts for a while (a major part of my diet, so that has been hard), and chew on the right side only for quite a while. I don't like the idea of unnecessary antibiotics, but I was going to be far away and it would be a weekend, so I went along with it. I definitely didn't want an infection. When I got to Tampa I bought a tub of yogurt to try to keep some gut flora going.
I told the periodontist that I was going to a BTS concert but would try not to scream. She earnestly told me to scream all I wanted. (I only screamed a little bit). They recommended icing my face and taking ibuprofen. I iced for a day and did the ibuprofen for three. The dissolvable sutures have started partly dissolving. One of them fell out earlier today. I am not done healing yet but am hopeful. I plan to invest in the implant.
*other things on the don't do list I don't do anyway, like drink alcohol or smoke or use a straw
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/1048278.html
I called the periodontist. Wednesday they called to say they'd had a cancellation for the next day (Thursday, two days before I was going to fly to Tampa). My Thursdays often involve driving a friend to Dana Farber (and hanging out with her for the day). We agreed that the tooth opportunity was important, so I was with her for much of the day and then a different friend drove her home. I had looked at the standard guidance for post-extraction. The top thing was "don't fly for two weeks." * I assumed that my appointment would basically be a checkup to see what she thought she could do. Nope. She and the assistant were planning to remove the tooth. I pointed out the no-flying thing and said that I would be flying four times in those two weeks. She waved it away, saying that it's more of a problem with upper teeth. #18 was on the bottom. She gave me a few minutes to consider. I called Flo, who said that if the expert said it would be OK, go ahead. I agreed (with Flo) and agreed (to the procedure). It took about an hour. She prescribed a week of amoxicillin and a medicated rinse (you're not supposed to swish - you tilt your head and let it pool up around the wound for 30 seconds twice a day). I was told to eat mush food for a couple of days, no nuts for a while (a major part of my diet, so that has been hard), and chew on the right side only for quite a while. I don't like the idea of unnecessary antibiotics, but I was going to be far away and it would be a weekend, so I went along with it. I definitely didn't want an infection. When I got to Tampa I bought a tub of yogurt to try to keep some gut flora going.
I told the periodontist that I was going to a BTS concert but would try not to scream. She earnestly told me to scream all I wanted. (I only screamed a little bit). They recommended icing my face and taking ibuprofen. I iced for a day and did the ibuprofen for three. The dissolvable sutures have started partly dissolving. One of them fell out earlier today. I am not done healing yet but am hopeful. I plan to invest in the implant.
*other things on the don't do list I don't do anyway, like drink alcohol or smoke or use a straw
