Broken metal files left behind

# Chapter 136

Well my mouth is still sore from the root canal trauma imposed on it yesterday, but for the first time in months, no toothache. You gotta cut away all the rot in order to get rid of that toothache. There is a great metaphor for spiritual living in there somewhere, but I want to move on to other things today. This was my first time going to a modern MODERN dentist office in the states. It had some serious wow factor at play, the technology was astonishing.

First of all was the live X-ray, so that he could follow the root properly with the file to get it all out. I can’t overemphasize how important this is, as I have had many root canal’s done and most of them are hit and miss, and create future problems. This one, shoot he even stuck the file completely down the root and then took a standard X-ray to make certain that he was getting all the way down!

It was that X-ray which showed his file completely to the bottom of the root, that also revealed inadvertently, someone else’s shoddy work. That particular X-ray also showed the two roots in the next tooth that had been filed out supposedly . . . but about half way down, there was an aberration. I ask the dental assistant about it and she sheepishly told me that some dentist in my past, had broken off a file and left it in there!

Well this guy didn’t. He video shot the excavation and the computer automatically measured it and sent the information to the next room where it automatically milled a new ceramic crown and 15 minutes later it was done. Wowza.