Yep. Cursed Myself There.

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2024/02/if-they-dont-treat-nhs-patients-theyre.html

All my wisdom teeth grew in around the time wisdom teeth normally grow in. 

However my upper right one never stopped growing. It's now a couple of millimetres taller than all my other teeth. Which is a massive difference when you think about how small teeth are. It's also ever so slightly out of alignment.

So every now and then it catches against my lower teeth, particularly when eating. For about a year I've been debating having it taken out. How that one big disruption compares to lots of little annoyances.

Last Monday (4/3) after lunch, soup of all things, I thought I had something caught between my teeth. After picking away at it for a long while I took a look in the mirror. About a quarter of the tooth above the gum line was no longer there. It turns out when it's first exposed dental pulp is actually bright blue.

Anyway I found an NHS dentist this Monday (11/3), without any trouble whatsoever. I had it assessed today and I'm getting it taken out next week.

Obviously I'm not happy about any of this. However I'm really not that bothered about the wait.

Firstly. Compared to arthritis or being set on fire as a child. Toothache really isn't a big deal.

Secondly. Whatever pain there was has now gone. As the enamel's started growing back over the pulp.

We truly are dealing with the Terminator of wisdom teeth!

I guess adding Fluoride to drinking water wasn't such a bad idea after all.

 

 

 

Although I should point out that if I didn't have an NHS Doctor then the local health authority is legally obligated to find me one. I'd say I don't know why the situation isn't the same with NHS Dentists.

Except I know that Conservative governments are always trying to privatise the NHS by stealth, scrapping the National Insurance scheme which pays for the NHS being the latest wheeze. While the Labour government which wrote the NHS Dentists contract really didn't have a clue what it was doing.