No time to continue with the Monica visit just now, but had to tell of my experience yesterday at the dentist. I went for a check up and cleaning and ended up having a root canal on one wisdom tooth and a filling in another. The dentist did a remarkably good job. He thought that the bottom tooth might need the root canal with the top one just a filling and it turned out to be the other way around.
I had read that the problem with root canals is getting down to the bottom of the root and killing off all the pulp and the blood vessels feeding the root. He used an amazing device to probe the root to make sure he had reached the bottom. It was a very thin electric probe that measures the depth of the root using sonar. Remarkable. Then he washed the inside with saline and packed it with some kind of solution that will kill all the soft tissue. The packing will stay in for two weeks before he crowns it. Exactly how the procedure was described on the net.
The filling was straight forward except that he used a new compound made of silica and other minerals similar to the composition of the tooth itself.
The only surprising thing was that he asked me if I wanted an anaesthetic. I said of course I did. Who ever heard of doing fillings let alone potential root canals without an anaesthetic? I guess most Sri Lankans do not get frozen before dental work. Not this big chicken!
At the end he wanted to give me antibiotics and pain killers, both of which I refused. Everything seems to fine this morning.
All this including 2 x-rays cost me LKR15,550, about C$150. Not an expenditure I was expecting or really wanted to incur, but still much cheaper than in Canada.
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