Is there an emergency dental place you could go to?

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This is what I was going to suggest.

Also: I'm always surprised by people being surprised by snow. Growing up in NH, I look at "so much snow we need open the garage door and knock down the drift to even GET to the front door" as normal.

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That would be my dentist. But the entire city is shut down because of this.

Normally, I'd just call up and schedule something for today, but even Case University - which is famed for not closing - is closed.

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Akron U, which wouldn't close for sub-0 temperatures two weeks ago, is also closed.

My job, however, was not. Only 1/2 day off for me.

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In Pittsburgh, which is getting hammered by the same snowstorm, all the colleges are closed...except for CMU.

Boo.

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It's strange. I've read plenty about snow, I know in theory what it is like and I'm looking at it right now but I find that snow is surprisingly like sex.

You don't really know what it's like until you experience it. And that looks really weird.

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Ha ha! Our entire country pretty much grinds to a halt if there's more than an inch of snow (this is not actually an exaggeration) ... the notion of actually having so much of the stuff that you need to clear it out of the way just to get the car out is an entirely alien concept.

On the bright side, you might not have to have the tooth extracted, a root canal might do the trick ... maybe?

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Nope. See previous entries on dying teeth and how some of them were going to get yanked anyway. This is one of them.

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I felt the same way. Then I experienced The Snow.

(and yes, if you mention The Snow in South Texas, everyone knows exactly what you're talking about.)

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Ooh boy do I miss snow. -enjoys the open spaces of the minority-

But thinking of vacations, toothaches, and snow, I'm connecting the dots with a pair of ice skates.

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Eek, I didn't mean to scare you about your tooth. Although it sounds pretty awful. Has the dentist said he plans to pull it yet? Because you can have some vile things wrong with your teeth and not have them pulled. In my experience, I had one tooth pulled, when a cavity got way too large (I switched from an incompetent dentist to a competent one. The filling fell out three times on the incompetent one before I went to a new guy and he said it was too late!). When I had my tooth abscess and root death episode in Amsterdam the tooth actually didn't have to be pulled, the dentist just drilled down through the center of it, cleaned out the root, and filled everything back in.

Does the tooth itself hurt, or does the pain seem to be coming from under the tooth? I know that may not be too helpful, when I got a root canal it felt like that entire side of the jaw hurt, but if the pain doesn't seem to be in the tooth itself you may keep it.

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The tooth is not the problem; the bone beneath it is dissolving. So root canal? Not so much.

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Ooooh, that's unpleasant. I think he just beat even me out for horrible dental problems. What a poorly timed snow-storm.

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my yard is covered with 3 feet....everywhere. Not just a drift.

You can't get in or out of my driveway. Oh yeah, and my girlfriend no longer has to work today as they're closed...so the flowers I sent her for valentines day are going to sit in a snow bank and die until somebody eventually finds them.

at least they''re sending out new ones...ones that one get here for another week.

So at least we'll have aching backs and teeth together, I've got a wisdom tooth that decided to just jam into my other teeth and not play nice.

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Here is a pic I took out my window on the East side last night...



There was a line of about eight salt trucks...couldn't get them all in the shot...

Good luck shoveling! Maybe the cold will numb your tooth...

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Wow. Crazy!

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What, did you move to CANADA??

And, clove oil numbs tooth pain. A LOT.

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Ohio, if I recall. They are comparing these storms to the ones in 1978, apparently.

The school closing list is something huge.

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Oi. The weather is being quite the finicky thing these days.

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Any mention of the 1996 storm? It was a bit east of the city, but that was pretty bad as well.

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Yeah, a liitle Kismet here. We are in the 'lull' of a storm that dropped some icy snow real early this morning. It is icy rain now and is expected to dump MUCHO snow later in the afternoon. We live on a main street, just off a major highway, so the plows come through every hour and pile the wettest heaviest snow into a frozen wall at the end of the drive. It usually takes us longer to clean that last 12 inches than the rest of the driveway, stairs and cars.
And although I don't have the HUGE tooth problems you are going through, I broke half a molar off last night - the part that had REAL tooth (broken at the gum line) and the part that's left appears to be all old filling. I'm grateful it doesn't hurt, but it's going to be a B--- to fix, IF they can fix it.

Trying to look on the bright side, my husband has the snowplow working now, and I just signed up for insurance that includes dental!

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I've spent like an hour and a half shoveling my driveway for three days. (A total of four and a half hours of shoveling for those scoring at home.) It has been so bad that I actually got a thumb blister from shoveling. Akron's just as snowed in.

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Gini and I are pretty much wrecked. The stitch in my side doesn't help any.

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Hello from a stranger who laughs at measly 4 feet drifts as we have at least 4.5 feet everywhere, a 6+ feet pile in the front yard, and a pile the size of a house in the neighbour's yard.

Tooth, though? My full and utter sympathy.

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Hello from someone who lived in Alaska for awhile. It's still a pain to shovel by hand, especially when the whole "Needing a snowblower enough to purchase one" is not a cost-effective technique.

Tooth still hurts. But less so. Gah.

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Why shovel it? Dig a fort into the 4' drift by the road and sit in it. When a car drives by, thrust some brightly coloured flag out of the hole and wave it at people.

It may not work depending on what part hurts, but rubbing the head of a clove around the tooth and the gums around it helps decrease some types of pain. A bit. Not much, but every bit helps, and who doesn't have cloves in their pantry? Useless for everything but sticking into oranges, but they're there. (liquid Benzocaine is even better, but you'd probably have to drive somewhere for that...)

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I'mgoing to suggest the liquid Benzocaine as well. Every drug store carries it, either as Anbesol or Orajel. It's for REALLY bad toothaches, wisdom teeth pain, etc., and the concentration is way higher than the wimpy gels that come in tubes, around 10-20% instead of 5-10%.

Maybe you could walk to the store instead of shoveling out your driveway to get to the car?

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We got a combination of 5 inches of snow/sleet/freezing rain. A snow blower wouldn't have done us any good. You had to break it up into moveable pieces. At that point, it was just as easy to throw those pieces into a pile by the sidewalk. Then, just after I got my car out to run some errands, the town plows came down the street and plowed us back in. No driveway for us- we park on the side of the street. Though hubby has muttered several times about taking out the old lilac and spirea? bushes and putting in a basketball court/parking area off the road.

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