Yeah, yeah

So I bet you've all been wondering how my tooth (or absence thereof) is! Well, recovery is going good. Each day is a bit better - today I was on full solid food diet, although opening my mouth really wide to eat my sandwich was still a bit difficult. Chu pointed out one thing that really bothers me too - washing my teeth. Obviously I couldn't do that the first night at all, but the second night I tried doing it very very carefully... especially in the first days as I wasn't able to open my mouth much so, well, it started feeling (and tasting) like an unwashed hamster cage. I'm still not able to wash my teeth properly as I'm terrified of hurting myself by accident, but also because the toothpaste is actually so stern stuff it really hurts in the sensitive parts of my mouth.

But all in all, it's going well. I don't know though, if I knew what I know now I don't know if I'd go though with it in the first place. True enough, once the pain starts to go away the memory fades almost as fast and it doesn't seem that bad, but I'm writing this so I don't forget how highly unpleasant this has been. So far, of course, I've yet to see any benefits... and maybe the benefit is just that I'll never have problems... which would be nice but not, well, tangible. But then again I work in QA so I know all about non-tangible benefits so I know I shouldn't overlook it...

And I've been thinking about middle ages when tooth extraction was a normal way of taking care of oral health, and how terrible it must have been. Suddenly I have tons of more sympathy towards people with teeth trouble - like poor Teemu Selänne who broke couple of teeth after a stick in the mouth in today's game in the olympics.

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