Pic Spocket

I’ve had trouble with toothache for the last month. After a few visits at the dentist and a couple of filling redone, I still have the issues. It’s even worse now with some swelling in the neck area on my right side. For troubleshooting, they sent me to the Oral Surgeon where I had a 3D-Xray done for the first time. You are standing with your head in a fixture of a weird machine and then the X-Ray scanner revolves around your head. I got a copy of the X-Ray, which I photographed by placing the negative on a white diffuser behind which I triggered an off-camera flash unit (sorry for the details, but I was excited about using that backlighting technique for the first time!). Here is the 3D-XRay of my teeth:

According to the Oral Surgeon, either I have a problem with the pulp of tooth #31 (marqued with an ‘X’), or one of my wisdom tooth (marqued with ‘y’) must come out. I hope it’s not the latter because that would mean 2 days off work and one week off training without mention of the pain associated with a tooth extraction procedure… In the former case, a simple root canal would solve the issue.

What is scary is the orientation of the wisdom teeth on the other side of the mouth. If they ever start growing, they could cause some serious problems due to their orientation!

 Talk about random pieces of life

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