13 May 2005

Gain without Pain?

The bleach usually hurts, like a little hammer hitting against the front of your tooth. Now, there's nothing. As cosmetic-dentistry-as-metaphor-for-life suggests, can there be enlightening without twinge? Gain without pain. Does this lead me to suspect the bleach is no longer working?
Can I no longer trust my procedures will have any incremental effect. Have I gone as white as I can?

Whatever, I have two tubes left.

Debbie can not understand what 'this is all about'. She simply 'doesn't get it'.
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11 May 2005

Missing Link

My friend Debbie Kruger hates how people link off her site's images. I vow never to do this, especially as I don't know how to....



Christopher Meloni nude pictures....not really.

How would one drive viewers to one's blog? What if I peppered it with keywords, such as Christopher Meloni nude pictures, hardcore sex photos, or free music, unlimited mp3 downloads.

Hopefully this will collect some odd semblance of an audience, totally unaware of my dental work, stumbling through the net to find this odd rambling of mine.

If you do, leave some grafitti.

Here's a rivetting picture from the Mac tablet pc patent. What a scoop.


My three new teeth feel ok. Now I fear a new cracked bi cuspid.

Topping up

My sister in law, in mid conversation, asked if I was whitening my teeth. Imagine my joy......

I've started on my second last tube. I felt it was prudent to try and 'top up' just as I got my other dental work completed. Luckily Trevor My Dentist had considered my new 'shade' when he was selecting which 'colour' and what 'hue' he should select for my new 'resurfacings'.

Diedre the Hygienist commented how well I'd been taking care of them. The good news just didn't stop.

I must be careful to not let total whiteness go to my head. Stains may lay just ahead. Oh god. Coffee....And Catherine will surely mock me if I appear too brightly gleaming.

Teeth can have hue too...

My dentists chatters. To his hygienist, to his nurse, sometimes to me with a numb mouth full of fingers and equipment. As he chattered to his nurse, I learned that teeth stuff, or 'resurfacing', comes in a wide range of colours, hues and brightnesses. Just like computer colours.

I also learned that an old respected dental supplies firm had been bought out by an overseas megalith company. Just like my company had been bought out. Just like we bought out our competitor. It's just a jungle out there. It pays to keep your teeth well flossed and in good condition, you never know when you'll need to strike out hard, bite down hard on the victim's jugular or chomp down on the acquisition's spinal cord, until it stops quivering.

Is this the natural state of things? Can I deduce other wisdom from my dental appointments?

Resurfacing vs Filling

Recent dental work. Three new 'resurfacings'. That's this century's term for 'filling'. Does this mean my 'fillings' have been replaced, or have I exchanged 'fillings' for 'resurfacings'?

My company announced we'd just 'acquired' another company, our arch rival, our favourite victim...On talking to our Boss across the sea, a colleague of mine used the term 'synergies'. What will be the likely 'synergies' of this merger. The answer devolved into a question of which workers would get the sack, which would stay. I thought my colleague's question had been misinterpreted. On bringing this up later, it seemed it was exactly the question he was asking. Catherine thought it was the first time she'd heard the term 'synergy' as a coy allusion to sackings. I'd never heard it used that way. My colleague countered it was used regularly in that way, that 'synergies' were the benefits that one got from combining two disparate entities, as well as the left overs of the merger....I'd never heard that before, well, not the 'leftovers' bit...

Now I'm worried my 'resurfacings' have not merely replaced my 'fillings', but that some of my old teeth were leftover....