This is my nightmare.

Mashed sweet potatoes and scrambled eggs meal = just been to dentist and has sore gums

Because of my sinful behavour in my early 20s and genetic DNA and other various factors, my gums aren't my best friends the last few years. I have been seeing a periodontist to fix me. I dread my visits to her (even tho she is the nicest dentist/periodontist I have ever met)and today I had to have one of those 'deep cleans' which means lots of little local anasthetic around my gums.

Its been 5 hours since the local has been put in and I am just starting to feel normal again (ie not like I have a big fat lip and feel like I look like a duck.)  Phil hasn't got the best set of gums either and so we both visit the same periodontist, tho Phil is usually the hero and Im the chicken.  Makes me think, if we have kids, the poor child will be dragged religiously to the dentist, no ifs or buts about it. I guess my teeth were completely fine (and they still are - no fillings at all at 29.5 years old) but I slacked off on worrying about teeth and gums when I was in my partying days. Oh I sure am paying now.

So, I guess the lesson is, go see your dentist regularly, if you don't want chaos to reign in your mouth later on.

(There are those who are very lucky and completely abuse their teeth and gums but still don't suffer any repercussions. They are truly blessed. Jealous.)

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