Wisdom teeth

Why do they call them wisdom teeth? Sigh. Mine are now gone, thanks to a very caring dentist with alot of good advice.

Paul Johnson, a fellow cyclist and very kind man looks at me gently and says, "These have got to come out Joni...I am clearing an hour today. No more waiting, unless you want to be completely toothless. I'll just take 4 and you can keep the rest!" (I thought I was just gonna get by with a tooth cleaning, but the X-rays indicated otherwise).

"Can you give me all the proper drugs (the three N's: Numbing, Novicane and Nitrous)" I uttered with a fake smile?

"Whatever it takes....these are coming out", he replied gently.

What he didn't say? Well for one thing, he didn't say, "Jeeeez, for a seemingly smart girl, why didn't you ever get your wisdom teeth pulled?" (Because I was scared and stubborn....that fear thing again) Here's the really dumb part. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be and now I've got to back for an extra cleaning because they were impacted and so...no cavities maybe, but I've got some work to do with my gums...and luckily we caught it before it was a real problem.

I'm sure my Mom's and Dad's in MN and CA are all saying the same thing (as my dentist) right now. Sigh. I know Mike is (and we won't even get into the "fee's" part). Bigger sigh...

So am I wiser now that my wisdom teeth are missing? I sure hope so. Right now I'm just happy that it's so cold outside, and I'm off to stick my whole head in the snow to numb things up a bit...the human snow-girl! Happy Thursday!