"That's really weird!" was what my dentist kept saying as she drilled a couple of little keyways and slapped in another dollop of amalgam, wham! bam! no charge no novocaine. (And maybe I just hadn't noticed before, but the drill had a cool little LED spotlight just behind the tip -- seems like a good idea.)
Apparently the little plug of metal that popped out last week was just part of a much larger filling in that tooth. How it cracked off and became eligible for a flip of the floss is anybody's guess. One possibility is that the hole was so big (four batches of amalgam, I think she said) and took so long to pack that some of the amalgam simply didn't bond to the rest, like a concrete foundation poured in batches a couple of weeks apart.
And then off to the tire store, where they dithered some more with the leaky right rear tire, this time plaming it on a corroded rim. We'll see how it goes, I guess.
Posted by wallich at February 24, 2004 12:53 PM