"We're done!" I say, as the endodontist snaps off his rubber glove. "The root canal is done!"
"No, I'm afraid not," he says. "It was such a bad infection I couldn't finish the job."
I soon discover that he packed the nerve tunnels with an antibiotic/antiseptic fluid -- sort of like injecting it with Clorox, he explains -- and put in a temporary filling.....which will be drilled out next Thursday.
And I am thinking this: Bite me.
Published on August 07, 2013 08:40