Dental hospital appt

Got there to the appt yesterday a little bit early and had about a ten minute wait before the nurse came out and called me. I was seeing the same dentist as last time, I guess he's mine now? He had the x-ray ready there to show me and wanted to discuss my teeth. Ugh, I find when dentists have something to say about my teeth it's generally always bad (although this dentist described mine as "not too bad" last time).

So this is the weirdest dental x-ray I've ever seen. A single x-ray that showed all my teeth, from the x-ray machine my last appt that went around my head. He pointed to the bottom front teeth (I don't have any top front teeth any more) and said that for some reason the roots of my front teeth are unusually short. I just said that you can't help bad genetics mate. There's a little bit of looseness with the odd tooth here and there, he said the usual story that it was the gums and there's very little that can be done about it apart from regular cleaning. 

Well I've looked after my teeth pretty good I think over the decades. At 51 I still have most of them. Fuck I remember many years ago in New Zealand and my older brother had all his teeth out in his twenties. That's what they used to do back then I reckon, just rip the whole lot out and give you false teeth. So I'm not doing too bad having just a partial right now.

So he discusses which teeth to stabilise the new plate on with wire that goes around. Looks like the big biting teeth on the front side bit. Fine with me. The mould making hurt a bit. My mouth isn't that big and some of the back teeth are quite cramped, and so pushing the mould on to get all the teeth in really hurt at the back. He had to do it twice as I moved the first one it was so sore. 

Got another appt in a couple of weeks. Must say, I know the waiting list was long and all but this whole making a partial plate procedure at the dental hospital seems much more thorough than what I went through originally when I had to get it done privately. I was never x-rayed my whole mouth for example, to see everything going on and which teeth are the best to stabilise a plate on.