Reply #13: Why what? Why did they take out the tooth?

[baby_mouse]

Because I have horrible weak teeth. And, I have to be honest, I am PETRIFIED of dentists and if things go wrong with my teeth I put them off and off and don't deal with them until it's a pain of some sort or another. I'm not usually so silly as to let it get as bad as it did this time, though. This one got seriously decayed and the decay was hidden away down the side of the gum, invisible and trapped between the offending tooth and it's partner, except below the gum line, right down to the bone. I'm amazed I couldn't feel it, but I couldn't, and I couldn't see it until it was WAAAY to late to do anything. It was all soft and punky like a rotten tree root. It looked fine until you looked at the bit hidden between it's back surface and it's neighbour.

Well, you asked. :D

and that last smiley should have a nice big black hole in it's smile!