You know what feels really good? Not having a tooth wobbling loose in the front of your mouth.
I’ve had some dental trauma in my life. One tooth was knocked out during a backyard hockey game in my early teens. A year or two later, another was yanked out by a clothesline while falling off of a friend’s porch roof. And yes, the porch belonged to the same friend whose hockey stick had taken out the first tooth. Then about twelve years ago a bike accident broke off both of the previously damaged teeth along with a third, previously uninvolved tooth. I wound up getting all three of them capped at the U of M Dental School.
And on Saturday, I noticed that one of the capped teeth felt a bit flexible.
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