ending this trip to India
My organised tour ended with a flight to Delhi, and I knew it was the time to find a dentist, to look at one of my teeth from which a big chunk had fallen off on the flight into the country three weeks earlier – thankfully I hadn’t suffered any pain, even though the hole was large. I went to a dentist in a chain that had been recommended to me by several people, and they dealt with me professionally, filling the hole. However, they told me that the reason for the damage was that the tooth was next to an unfilled gap I’ve had for many years (decades?) – apparently the bone slowly recedes, which causes the neighbouring teeth to slowly move. They told me that if I didn’t fill the gap, I would get more problems with these teeth, probably eventually losing them. Apparently I needed a crown. I’ve never had a crown before so do not know whether this is the standard procedure, but I went back the next day for them to drill a hole in the gum and then screw in a titanium s...