I went to the dentist on Thursday. Not happy.

First off, those wisdom teeth of mine? They’re apparently still in the bone of my jaw. When I went to the dentist with my abscess, why did she diagnose me with wisdom tooth pain when the wisdom teeth can’t move (there’s no room in my mouth!)?
And why did she tell me I’d ground down my wisdom teeth (I grind my teeth in my sleep), if they’re still in the bone?

The teeth that were causing the pain are my second set of molars. They started coming through when I was about twelve and have only just finished.

I’m being treated for a second abscess (in the same place as the last abscess). I had a lump between my teeth and inside of my lip but didn’t think it was another abscess.

She also told me that if I don’t stop smoking, I’ll lose my teeth within ten years. That, to me, sounds like a scare tactic.

I’m sick of doctors and dentists playing on the fact someone smokes.
You go to the doctor with an inflamed knuckle or athlete’s foot and they’ll try and blame it entirely on your smoking.
My feet are itchy!
That’s because you smoke!

I’m also sick of my dentist trying to tell me I don’t brush my teeth. I KNOW she’s a dentist and knows teeth much better than I do but I do brush my damn teeth.
I have never had a filling because I have never had a cavity. If I didn’t brush my teeth, I would have had many cavities.

So, to stop her moaning at me (until I get myself a NEW dentist), I’ve decided to stop drinking tea and have cut back on the cigarettes.
I now have one cup of tea in the morning and have cut back from thirty+ cigarettes a day, to ten. And I’ll keep cutting back until I’ve quit.
I can’t use patches because they make my heart race and the gum makes me want to throw up. So I’ll make my addiction more manageable to make it easier to go ‘cold turkey’.

There have been some differences…my tongue used to be yellow and it’s now pink. My gums aren’t as pale and I’ve got an appetite! I haven’t had one of those since before I started drinking tea!

(Sorry this entry is kind of all over the place. I take my tea with sugar and the lack of sugar is making it difficult for me to think clearly. I’ll be back to normal soon. )