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Eudora Welty: The History Of My Tooth

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The History of my Tooth
Noga Sklar

When I woke up early this morning (too early, it was almost dark) I suddenly realized it was the first day of autumn, my current favorite season (no pun intended). So I turn to the other side and pretended I would sleep late, just as if I had nothing to do.
My agenda these days has been so overwhelming that I feel exhausted even before I wake up, I must admit. And this is due not only to an excess of projects moving on simultaneously, but also to the number of things I need to learn anew to cope with their demands, not to mention my brain is also getting into its “autumn years” (I hope not).
Yesterday, for example, I had to understand the previously unknown concept of “roof pitch index,” which I haven’t learn …show more content…

Or maybe it has been broken from the beginning… who knows… I soon learned that it is quite rare for an implant to break this way, not to mention that “extracting and replacing a broken dental implant is a complex surgical procedure.” In my case, as nothing with me is simple, the dentist informed me that it was a “high-risk” procedure, since the remainder of the implant rests near a nerve.
At any rate, it would be fair to debate, what would be the purpose of dedicating an entire chronicle to this highly uninteresting history of my tooth over more than 20 years?
The thing is, I was utterly surprised by my attitude towards the missing tooth: A thought that was unbearable, practically unthinkable, 20 years ago, is not bothering me at all today, and after the initial shock I’m quite open to the dentist suggestion: “I know it sounds terrible, but the best option for you would be to leave it with no tooth …show more content…

No matter how well I examine my open mouth I can barely see the empty space, and believe me, If I hadn’t decided to write about it, it would be completely unperceivable by “the world.”
In all honesty, despite the imposing impulse to expose ourselves today on social media we all must resist in order to preserve a reasonable degree of “personal privacy,” who cares about what the world will think or

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