Dear Dental Office

Having severe tooth pain, and making appointment is cause enough for anxiety. Confirming it, me making arrangements to get there, then you calling me to say 'Oops, that time was blocked out, can you wait until tomorrow?' isn't good. If I could have waited until tomorrow I wouldn't have called you this morning.

And then I tell you "I had to use Jack Daniels, and felt like biting pillow and screaming into it" , you then suddenly shift, find an opening, but earlier than the first Oops appointment isn't doing a damned thing to enhance my inner calm

Good news/Bad News

Good news: the tooth isn't infected, isn't cracked, all teeth around it are fine.

Bad news: The old filling dropped in a bit, sitting on nerve/blood supply, causing pain.

Good news: go back tomorrow to start procedure for root canal. Also have some very strong antibiotic tablets, and some kick ass pain killers that I can take in conjunction with plain ibuprofen.