[LMB] Dentist (WAS AKICOT:L Tea)

[Mark Allums]

Our Mary wrote:
> Once they start hurting (if it's an abscess), you definitely do not want to  
> fly.  Not.  Commercial flights are pressurized, but not to the same  pressure 
> as ground level, and any abscess is going to get much, much more  painful 
> during a flight.


I don't believe I have any abscesses.  The dentist has not mentioned it. 
   I have not been prescribed any antibiotics.  I was on track to lose 2 
teeth, but he changed his mind about one of them, and filled it.  The 
other, I will probably lose next week.  The big expense that is going to 
cost an arm and a leg will be the crowns, all those crowns!  In the US, 
they are custom made, every one, and my dentist naturally wants to use 
one of the more expensive kinds, a variation on the porcelain-on-metal 
type.

People, drink water, not soda pop* (not even diet soda), and brush and 
floss every day!  It's not just the law, it's a good idea!

--Mark Allums


* I am now wondering from where my caffeine is to come.  I hate coffee, 
and very much iced tea means frequent trips to the bathroom.  (Hate hot 
tea.)  Maybe I'll have to start buying No-Doz and Vivarin.  Do they sell 
caffeinated sugarless gum?**

** Probably.  They sell regular caffeinated gum at Think Geek.  I guess 
I will head on over there and check.  Probably want an arm and a leg for it.