Anyway, the dentist gave me the impressions he'd made of my teeth so that I could have the pleasure of throwing them away myself.
The gap in the lower teeth is for an implant I'm getting (that I did ask for — it's replacing a tooth that was pulled out earlier this year). That'll be in July some time, and will involve hacking at the tooth behind it because it's at an inconvenient angle. That'll be a thrill.
All this counts as cosmetic surgery, so its cost isn't covered by the NHS. A third of it is covered by the £45-a-month dental insurance I have, but that still means that together these procedures have set me back £6,500.
Great. As soon as I have no income, I'm landed with bills that would have alarmed me when I did have income.
The bridge does look pretty damned good, though, and I can eat the apples I ill-advisedly bought last week when I had the plastic, temporary bridge in place that turned out not to be apple-proof.
