21 November 2006 (Tuesday)

absence of feeling

I had a cavity filled this afternoon in a lower molar (#19, for those of you who know the system). Because of the tooth's location, my dentist had to inject the anesthetic fairly low and far back, resulting in the numbing of not only my tongue and lower lip (and the tooth, of course), but also part of my throat on one side. ow that I'm home, I'm trying to decide which sensation is stranger for the numbness: kissing my husband with only three-quarters of my lips, or drinking cold water with only half my throat.

# posted by shanna at 5:28 PM
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1) i hate going to the dentist. 2) hate needles. ;) So I would not have enjoyed the experience at all, and leaving part of the lips, tongue, and throat numb would make me not want to return again. we're paying to be tortured, it seems.


Posted by: suki at 1:09 PM on 27 November 2006
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