Beware the hidden dangers of flossing...

Monday night I was burning the midnight oil at the office (as is my custom lately) with Marianella and we were snacking on supplies that we had stashed at the office. I was eating some beef jerky and I got a piece stuck in my teeth - very irritating. It drove me crazy the entire time I was at the office working. I got home and went straight to the bathroom drawer to grab the floss. I started flossing to get the offending piece of meat out of there and the floss kept getting stuck on what I thought was the jerky (is anyone grossed out yet?). So I took another piece of floss out and put it between my molars and pulled...and...POP! - out came...my filling!! It broke into two pieces. So I am standing there trying to assess the damage but I couldn't see very well and so I stuck my tongue up there and felt this hole where my filling was supposed to be.

I must say, I've never had anything like that happen, but how cool was it for me when I called Dr. Cammann the next day to get it replaced, that I could say, "My filling came out while I was flossing."? It made me look like a star pupil. I didn't have to say, "I was eating rock candy" or "I was opening bottles with my teeth", it was great. I was praised for being so diligent in my hygiene (I kind of skipped the part about the jerky) and got my tooth fixed the next morning. Aside from the discomfort of the anesthetic and sitting in the dentist's chair, the visit to the dentist wasn't half bad.