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It was three weeks ago Thursday that I had the partials cemented to my poor cracked teeth, and it hurt really rather more than I was expecting. A week later, they told me it might take months before it felt completely normal again, because this wasn't a root canal, after all - there's still a nerve in there, and the crack is still near it, so. And I get that. As long as the progress is forward, they said to me, that's good. If every week is a little better than the week before, you will likely escape root canal.

( So okay. I can live with that. )

So, yeah. I don't know if this counts as forward progress or not. The dental assistant was very careful to make sure I understood that it wasn't going to feel much better very quickly, because hi, cracked teeth under those partial crowns, so this is a slow, slow healing process. But I just can't tell if it's getting any better at all; I can't focus through the pain, so I can't tell (and it doesn't much matter) if one day the pain is slightly less but still excruciating.

This post has been brought to you by a wimp who, once again, has no idea how people with more serious pain issues do it.