Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax

src="http://www.notfrisco2.com/webzine/Joel/archives/squares/square28
6.gif" width="50" height="50" border="0" align="left" />I’ve been licking at a flat manhole cover in the space before my last surviving molar on the lower right hand side. Now there’s a post there that my tongue seeks out like a cat seeking a scratching place for her chin. This morning, my periodontist torqued it in, using a tiny screwdriver which he operated from a dial at the tip of the handle. In all my future x-rays, I will see this bolt in my jaw where the molar used to be. Next week, I get impressions made and then a crown.

My regular dentist read the note I delivered when I arrived for a teeth cleaning. All measurement are in Newton centimeters, meaning small.