Sunday, February 11, 2001

 

12:04 a.m. This will be the last dental-centric piece I do for a while, I promise. Actually, it won't be as dental-related so much as dental-glancing ... as usual, I have an extra photo. That's really it.

I am a very fast healer, and I'd forgotten that part of it until this morning, when I woke up and realized that already, my whole jaw/face felt much, much better. If I've had any spikes of pain and pressure during the day, I've been able to tap into my new supply of Advil and all is well.

And as another perk, I've gotten some really great advice about how to face the future. There are other folks out there who have stayed away from this scene for 20-plus years, and to a person, once they do go back, they do seem to reconsider flossing and brushing and cleaning and checkups.

It's advice I'm going to follow.

Even though, toothfully, I'm amazed that we're not more advanced as a species. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that we only have three times as many genes as yeast, but still -- you'd think after all these years they'd have maybe a handy paste that you can apply to infected areas and decay would be gone. Then, another paste and new enamel would grow ...

1:35 a.m. So, healing is underway. It's raining, off and on and on again. I have a pill schedule that's killing off certain bacteria, and I'm eating yogurt so that certain other bacteria can find a new home. Scientists have discovered that human genes come directly from bacteria ... and so around and around we go ...

Time for nature's best med'cine: sleep. Thanks for all your kind words and thoughts ...