Three-fourths of America’s cobblestone buildings are within a 75-mile radius of Rochester. This Culver Road garage may be field stone and not cobblestone but it still looks pretty cool. I spent the day with dentists and and I was thinking that their practice is more like a craft than a science. And I don’t mean any insult to them.
I had a tooth that needed a root canal but the roots were too squirrelly to do one properly so they patched it up and let me keep the tooth until it acted up again. Two years later it acted up and so I went to my dentist this morning thinking I needed it pulled. I was bracing myself for a bone crunching experience but when I got there my dentist thought that it was the tooth next door that was giving me the pain so he sent me back over to the root canal specialist.
The specialist was wearing microscopes on each eye and a white surgical mask and I had a dental dam over my mouth while I was laying down a few degrees beyond horizontal. They were playing soft rock and I noticed how silly Rod Stewart’s rough and tumble voice sounds with a string section. The dentist worked furiously filing out the nerve endings and asking the receptionist for tools like “ND 20.5″. He noted that my canals take crazy curves and when he left the room the receptionist said, ” Take a look at the curve on this puppy” as she put one of the files away. The dentist came back in and the new Whitney Houston song came on. The receptionist said, “She has lost her voice completely”.
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I’ve been to the dentist recently and no matter what the music it sucks when accompanied by the modern sounds of dentistry.
hey, did I ever show you the movie I made of my recent root canal? The footage is excellent and the doctor was very cooperative.
My grandmother, it is said, used to ride her bicycle down Lake Avenue, which was paved with cobblestones, from the city to the amusement park at Ontario Beach, known then as “Coney Island of the West”.
Wow! The Universe is synching! I had my first tooth pulled yesterday at the Eastman Dental Center. It was a disaster. 2 dentists drilling (the first got tired after 45-minutes). Blood and tooth chips all over–they were making me crazy! (“Keep your chin up! UP! You’re doing fine! QUIT MOVING YOUR TONGUE!”) It took an hour and ten minutes!
In the beginning I asked the lady dentist if she was going to put one foot on my chest and just give it a yank? She said I must have watched too many “Three Stooges” shows on TV as a kid. In the end, I might have preferred Moe. Not Mo dentists tho. One good thing, there was no pain – just awful dentist noises.
BTW: the “forest improver” was in court today.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090917/NEWS01/90917016/1041/OPINION/Man-accused-of–improving–park-on-his-own
I always wanted to paint the road in front of my building red.
BTW#2: make sure you scroll down and read the comments! Leave your own!
I made a New Years Resolution not to read any more “comments” after news articles and I wish I had stuck to it. People just ain’t no good.