I'm the Tooth Fairy. I came for your teeth.

I'm having a bad relationship with one of my teeth.

It had a cavity, a deep cavity that the dentist put a temporary filling on to see if the nerve could be saved and I could be saved hundreds of dollars and some pain and not have to get a root canal and crown (hi, I have no dental insurance).

So we put the filling on, and waited a month while the tooth mildly hurt off and on just about every day during that month.

When I reported this to the dentist, he said we should wait three more weeks and see if there was a change, if the pain stopped or didn't get worse that meant the nerve was probably OK.

Three weeks later I go in, with the news that the tooth was hurting less frequently but more severely (nothing a couple ibuprofen could handle, though). An X-ray looked fine, so he wanted to wait again. I had suggested that we could just pull the tooth out of my head because I am tired of living with a toothache. He said that was an option, but my other teeth would be happier if they got to keep thier friend Mr. Molar with them for the long haul of my lifetime. But I should go home and think about it and call back when I decide what I want to do.

So, I called and said we can go ahead with the root canal/crown/my god I'll have to sell a kidney option. When it came down to it, I gave in to my snobbiness. Getting the tooth pulled when it did really have to be just seemed a little white trash. Plus, I didn't want to do something that would involve pliers. in my mouth.

I have an appointmet for the root canal next week, and then two weeks later get the crown. I will have been to the dentist more times in the last 3 months than I had in the previous 3 years. Ugh.

To celebrate teeth, I give you this hilarious soundclip from Sifl n Olly:
http://www.alluvium.com/~wes/siflolly/sounds/toothfairy.mp3