Last week I visited the dentist for a regular annual check up. I expected it to be a tick-the-box endeavour because I didn’t have any particular issues I was concerned about and I am very diligent with dental hygiene.

Alas.

Dentist identified that two large elderly fillings on each side of my lower jaw had seen better days and it was time to replace them with crowns. Of course this is astonishingly expensive, even with health insurance.

So today I went and had the first half of the procedure. I’ll not go into the excruciating details, but it rather felt like being pummelled by a large hammer drill – for an hour. If you know, you know.

All went well and I’ll be back in 3 weeks to have the proper crowns fitted.

Holy!Goodness! I’m feeling very tender now that the anaesthetic has worn off. Even with the help of pain killers.

I’m sure it will ease off tomorrow, but for now, it’s drugs and sleep!