The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[speckledhen]

I now have a good picture of a dentist with a spatula digging around in you mouth, is it bad that it made me smile?

Well, they were tiny spatulas! LOL

I had a root canal removed last fall. There was a tooth, but when they pull them, they have to drill out the root filling below.

Worst pain - and longest lasting - that I've had with any tooth related issues after the procedure. It was more intense for much longer. Now, almost a year later, I can still feel aching in that area from time to time. And I think there was a little nerve damage as I often feel some level of tingling down to my lips. (Tooth was the far back upper in the jaw.) It comes and goes and I get swelling in that cheek too.

I know that drilling in the jaw is pretty intense and I'm still hoping that there is more healing to come- and perhaps the nerve may calm down if that's what it is.

I hate to think how it would feel if he had had to cut the gum, ouch. I hope it chills out. Sounds like similar issue to mine with yours. The root canal had been done a few years ago, never had a crown on it so it weakened the tooth and just broke off entirely.

I've seen a lot of articles that say never have a root canal, always remove the tooth instead. I may do that in the future.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Me too. I don't want anymore root canals.

 

[1muttsfan]

Nerves are tricky things, sometimes when they are injured they become hypersensitized and produce pain sensations far in excess of what you would normally experience. Once ramped up this way they can take a long time to calm back down, and sometimes special medications are necessary. Small pockets of infection, damage to the bone below the tooth, and remnants of tooth or the dental nerve can also produce lingering discomfort. A good doctor or dentist will listen to your concerns and try to find why you are having pain so long after the work that was done.

 

[getaclue]

I can honestly say, my root canals, and the crowns, are doing fine. It was the 2 that still had fillings that had to be pulled. Cavities started under the fillings, and it was all "enhanced" by the chemo. I didn't have the time to wait, until after the chemo, to get them fixed, so I had to have them pulled.

I am so glad I had sand hauled in as a foundation for my coop, then fill dirt on the sand. Our part of Florida was hit with a nice little tropical storm. It brought a LOT of water, and there was a good bit of flooding throughout our county. It hit hard, and fast. I already knew the back was low, thus my insistence on building up the coop area.

Here is what my back yard normally looks like:

This is what it looked like on Sunday:

The hose running out from the house, is for draining the pool. I had to drain it down 5 times. Typically, if it rains really hard for a few hours, I have to drain it down once. A bit to the right of the burn pile, there is a good sized pipe that runs down to the creek. By the next morning, there was no water at all standing in the back yard.

 

[getaclue]

By the way, the coop stayed high, and dry.

 

[speckledhen]

Nerves are tricky things, sometimes when they are injured they become hypersensitized and produce pain sensations far in excess of what you would normally experience. Once ramped up this way they can take a long time to calm back down, and sometimes special medications are necessary. Small pockets of infection, damage to the bone below the tooth, and remnants of tooth or the dental nerve can also produce lingering discomfort. A good doctor or dentist will listen to your concerns and try to find why you are having pain so long after the work that was done.

Hopefully, after today it will be resolved quickly.

By the way, the coop stayed high, and dry.

That's a lot of water, Cheryl. Smart to insist on the coop being raised up some. No floating chickens!

 

[getaclue]

Let us know what the dentist says.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, he said it's healing properly, no infection, no idea why I'd have this much pain a week later, but he packed it with that stuff that tastes like cloves and told me to take Sudafed for 10 days and use Afrin nasal spray in that side for a few days, making sure there is no congestion in the nasal passages. So, back home, and still on pain meds. Getting some fruit and yogurt for my first food of the day.

 

[kitkat5505]

Well, hopefully because there's no infection it will start feeling better soon.

 

[speckledhen]

Hope so, thanks! Now, on to more interesting subjects...Lizzie's three chicks. I think there is one pullet,
but very definitely there are two cockerels. They are a week-and-a-half old now. Of course, they are Hector and Jill's chicks, but Lizzie is the very excellent mama, so they get posted here, too.

On the upper ramp in the first pic and also on the ramp in the 2nd, the suspected pullet, although the head spot is not that girly, the wing feathers are more even, the down color is darker than the other two and this one also has most dark on the leg fronts.

If there are 3 males here, then no more Jill babies until later. I'll wait until MaryJo is mature before hatching more BRs.