After this, my teeth better be perfect

Sigh. I put off doing the dentist thing for too long, knowing I had a chip in a filling that needed repair for quite a while. Turns out that chip was actually between two teeth and the filling underneath was done badly (uh yeah, bad experiences with prior dentists might be WHY I have been procrastinating about getting this taken care of - and the sad thing was my last dentist was better than the Dr. Scrivello horror job I had as a kid), and the dentist wanted to replace the whole shebang with a full veneer on both today instead of a couple more fillings which may or may not have lasted a year or three before needing to be replaced again based on their placement.

So an appointment that should have only lasted for an hour and a half this morning took an hour longer than that, and the temporary crown I have over the teeth while I wait for the permanent veneer is rough and just a smidge too long. I swear it didn't seem too long while I was in the dentist's chair, but now I feel like Bugs Bunny. I couldn't eat lunch properly because I'm not supposed to bite into things with my front teeth (so I don't break the temps) and I feel like I am not shutting my jaw correctly at any other time. Add to that the amount that I ended up shelling out for this (which, by the way, still makes me grateful for insurance even though it doesn't cover as much as it should) and all I can say is at the end of this those veneers better make me feel like a frickin' supermodel.

Bah. Whatever happened to the regenerating dentistry that we were supposed to have invented by the year 2000? Heinlein lied.