Mouth Tricks

I have begun the mouth restoration, new crowns to replace aged fillings that are cracking and leaking so I fill the thrill of cold air when I breath through my mouth. The beginning of this process was taking molds of my teeth for the replacement crown manufacturing. And then whitening to get my old yellow teeth back to their natural color so to match the crowns. The process is called Zoom, and it uses light and bleaching agents to whiten the teeth. It is a long complicated process where they stuff gauze in and around your mouth and teeth. The tech then puts some material along your gums and saps it to harden it to protect that area. She applies sun block to lips to spare them the intense light, and wraps gauze up over the lips. It looks pretty macabre. Skeletal, as a matter of fact. Then you go through what they call passes, four of them 15 minutes each, and they remove the material they have put on your teeth to accelerate the whitening process. By the end of the second pass I could feel my upper lip and told the tech, and she reapplied the sun block. I should have mentioned that I was beginning to feel the bottom lip, but didn't until the 3rd pass, and on we went to the 4th pass. It was just a fluke, I got burned, more on the bottom lip, and I am now feeling the slow healing acutely. It will take a week, probably for it to get back to normal. But my teeth look white. I think the last time they looked this good was 40 years ago. So was it worth it? Probably! Going along with my Whisker blog, and writing about aging, I do want to make it another 10 or 12 years and see what happens around me, so looking good is probably the call!