After my debacle with tooth decay from ginger chews I switched to an occasional piece of candied ginger. In attempt to curb my cookie addiction, I switched to keeping dried figs in my desk. They took the soy out of Grape Nuts and I always eat them hot with raisins. I thought these were all great changes to improve my health, but they, unfortunately are not helping my teeth. Today I had xrays and 45 minutes of necessary torture that is a dental cleaning.
Here is how the series of xrays went. Me sitting there with my mouth gaping open. The Dental Hygienist, who always comments about how awesome my sneakers are, moving around telling me to bite gently taking the series of photos.
Than came the pause. As a cancer survivor you know what a pause by any health care professional means.
DH: "Hmm. That doesn't look right."
Me: "rrr? (I still had a bite wing in my mouth"
DH: "Oh, sorry I hate when people do that. Let me take a couple more photos and then show you what I'm looking at"
Me: "Poop"
The DH shows me a shadowy thing on my front tooth and then asks if I had trauma. I'm pretty sure that I would remember hitting my front teeth. She also shows all of my starter cavities. Nothing that needs fixing immediately, but lots of things to keep an eye one. The Dentist comes in as I am having visions of me and a missing front tooth to do a cold test. They take something that makes your teeth super cold and you have to tell them when you feel it. So yes, it's super pleasant. I could feel it, so she decided that they would watch my teeth and that "It was just something that showed up on the xray." I will buy that for now.
However, because my teeth are so close and I've had cavities after chemo she let me know that dried fruit is on my do not eat list unless I can floss immediately. Sigh. I guess I'll switch to ginger tea? Hmmm, can I blame this on tamoxifen? No. No I cannot. But, I don't have to go back for another 6 months.
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