I love my dentist.\u00a0 He is consistently awesome.\u00a0 Whenever I go he ends up saying something like, “Well, you have some problems, but we’ll get them fixed later.” It’s been over 10 years.\u00a0 Apparently he’s found a way to make my problems painless and ignorable.<\/p>\n
Saturday I chipped a tooth on falafel (really).\u00a0 And currently: no dental insurance.\u00a0 So I was heading over to the office with some trepidation.\u00a0 He said, “I’ll patch it and it will hold for a long while, but you will need a crown eventually.\u00a0 Come back when you have some insurance.” “Eventually” he says… I’ll be middle aged by the time this thing breaks.<\/p>\n
Then he says, “I need to do a little bit of drilling, but it’s only a little, so it’s up to you if you want a shot (to deaden the pain).”\u00a0 I think I am tough, so the shot was forgone.\u00a0 When he said a little bit of drilling, he meant a very little: no more than 3 seconds, barely enough for me to feel it.<\/p>\n
Lastly, as I was getting out of the chair he says “It’ll be fine, just stay off it for a few hours.”\u00a0 My patched cleaved tooth is a mere twisted ankle to this man.\u00a0 So here’s to Dr. Pacia: hip hip hooray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love my dentist.\u00a0 He is consistently awesome.\u00a0 Whenever I go he ends up saying something like, “Well, you have some problems, but we’ll get them fixed later.” It’s been over 10 years.\u00a0 Apparently he’s found a way to make my problems painless and ignorable. Saturday I chipped a tooth on falafel (really).\u00a0 And currently: no dental insurance.\u00a0 So I was heading over to the office with some trepidation.\u00a0 He said, “I’ll patch it and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}