You know you'll have to pay it all. You'll pay today or pay tomorrow. You fasten up your beaded gown, then you try to tie me down (Steely Dan)

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Wie geht's?

Dental work. As a colleague said to me this week - hard to know what hurts most - the actual dental work or the bill.

I liken dentists to hair stylists, as in I can't cut my own hair, nor can I perform complicated dental procedures on myself. Asher recently took great delight in removing one of his wiggly teeth to assist the tooth fairy, but he's much more adventurous than his papa.

So - off to a variety of specialists I go for a root canal on a complicated molar that is dying a painful death. First was the consulation and fancy as scans. Twenty minutes work costing $400.

I lay back and thought of England.

Love and peace - Wozza

You’ll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above (Bob Dylan)

Those pictures rock me to the core!

I had dental work done recently - went for a clean and the x ray spotted some large fillings coming loose. Of course it did. 

Ho hum. What are ya gonna do? Your own dentistry? I think not.

Jaw was still a tad sore a few days later. I know - get a concrete pill. The actual work on the fillings didn't hurt though, alhamdulillah. 

Anyway, while I was there getting the last of them done I spotted some old dental equipment being used as a prop. Sent chills down my spine.

Back when I was a student at Royal Oak Primary School (Yay Royal Oak Primary!), along with my classmates, I had to go on a bus to what we called, The Murder House. 

It was gruesome. Rows of women like the one in the picture learning to be dental nurses, effectively practising on young kids. It was brutal.

I hated it! With a passion!  

The psychological damage done to us innocent children cannot be calculated. The bus ride was hideous; the walk into the place horrible; the pain we underwent unconscionable.

Euuuiihhhhh (that was a shudder). Glad that doesn't happen these days. That's progress I guess.

Love and peace - Wozza