Part of the reason there was a disctinct lack of notblogs in December what my poor poor mouth… Nearly a year since I went to the dentallists my broken tooth decided to again flare up and give me some big nasty terrible nasty gum infection. All this on the night of Dawn’s birthday and a houseparty at our flat. I had to go the emrgency dentists to get a temporary filling (which fell out the next day) and told me to go to a proper one.
I wnet back to the dental Nazi in Soho and he told me that (and this is on the NHS) the broken tooth would cost me £900… fuck that.
So I should get it ripped out, but the antibiotics I was given have gotten rid of the infection and so now I’ve forgotten about it again.
In itself this is ridiulous, I spent most of December in agony, I’ve never known a pain like it. It was horrible, I could do nothing and even worse I had to use clove oil. But now it’s gone (surely it’s only a matter of time before it happens again) I suddenly think it’s not worth the bother.
Yet again I am an idiot.
I don’t spend any money on dental care…
But what do I do?
I buy some mouthwash.
Well done me.
I have gotten through thee bottles of listerine in a month, I’m using it almost constantly.
I tried the new milder orange stuff, but I felt it was lacking a bit of a kick, so settle for blue mint. When it comes to mint products I tend to prefer blue, I forget what the difference is. Instiincts tells me it spearmint, but if I’m honest, I’m not really sure what a spearmint is.
Anyway, last night, in Sainsburys to get my fix of listerine I find the have run out of bluemint, all they had left was greenmint. So, without too much thought I buy some.
I had a swigs worth left in my blue bottle so used that, leving the green for this morning.
This morning, running late (as ever) I tored the safety wrapping off the top of the bottle and swigged some after my teeth cleaning.
HOLY FUCKING CHRIST
This green stuff isn’t peppermint- I think it might be acid, my mouth was on fire. On fucking fire.
And I’ve got a whole bottle of this to get through, everytime I clean my teeth I’m going to have a residual sense of fear for the ensuing pain.
This in turn will lead me to be scared of the whole tooth cleaning experience
Ergo I will stop cleaning my teeth.
So the moral there is that Listerine is ipso facto bad for teeth.
Don’t use it, espeically not the green stuff, it’s not ripe yet.
Dear Terry, I hope that by now you are the proud possessor of beautiful, white and painfree teeth. Can you tell me the name of the nice dentist in Bethnal Green, my son lives there and he has the samr fears as yourself and also the severe funds shortage. have found you by accident ( while looking for dentists!) but will put you in my favourites – you made me laugh out loud, are you a profesional comedian??
Cheers, lesley