{"id":428,"date":"2011-05-01T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=428"},"modified":"2011-05-01T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T21:33:25","slug":"it-starts-with-soup-and-ends-with-tooth-extraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"It starts with soup and ends with tooth extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am recovering this weekend from some dental work that occurred on Thursday.\u00a0 In a nutshell, it started a couple of months ago with gently biting down on something hard in some soup I was eating.\u00a0 Then&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A week or two later, the molar is sensitive to pressure and cold.<\/li>\n<li>Saw dentist &#8220;A&#8221; who couldn&#8217;t find anything specific wrong, but concluded it must be a crack.<\/li>\n<li>Dentist &#8220;A&#8221; puts in a filling to help stabilize the tooth if it is a crack.<\/li>\n<li>Over the next few weeks, pain gets better then worse.<\/li>\n<li>Saw dentist &#8220;B&#8221; for a second opinion.\u00a0 She came to the same conclusion and sent me to a specialist.<\/li>\n<li>Saw specialist dentist &#8220;C&#8221; who said I needed a root canal, regardless of whether it is cracked.\u00a0 All x-rays look normal.<\/li>\n<li>I declined root canal since nobody could specifically say what was causing the pain.<\/li>\n<li>At 2:00 am on Thursday, I begged for a root canal.\u00a0 I had to endure until working hours.<\/li>\n<li>After many phone calls, found dentist &#8220;D&#8221; who had an opening in the schedule for a root canal.<\/li>\n<li>It was &#8220;take your kid to work day&#8221; at dentist &#8220;D&#8221;.\u00a0 So I had an audience of kids watching my root canal.<\/li>\n<li>Dentist &#8220;D&#8221; stops half way through and says that it&#8217;s not worth continuing.\u00a0 The tooth is cracked down the back root, below the gum-line.\u00a0 Recommends seeing dentist &#8220;E&#8221; immediately, who is an oral surgeon.<\/li>\n<li>Dentist &#8220;E&#8221; pulls out tooth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>I just want the pain to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am recovering this weekend from some dental work that occurred on Thursday.\u00a0 In a nutshell, it started a couple of months ago with gently biting down on something hard in some soup I was eating.\u00a0 Then&#8230; A week or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=428\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiences","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}