In September, while out at a meeting and dinner, I was eating a lovely pork chop when I felt a bone, hubby said, can't be a bone, they are boneless chops. I said, trust me I have one! I took it out and said, oh, it's a pebble, then felt something in my mouth, it was the front of my tooth, it had just fallen off!! I felt quite sick for the rest of the evening, one of my fears is losing my teeth. A few years earlier the same thing had happened to another tooth, also on the right hand side of my mouth!! Anyway, we'd not been to a dentist for 2 years because ours wrote to us last year saying, sorry, we're not seeing NHS patients anymore!! In the summer we got a letter asking us to come back to them!! I called them and enquired, oh, they say, you haven't been to us for almost 2 years? No, I reply, because you told me you didn't want me anymore so I couldn't come. Yes, but as you haven't been for 2 years you can't get an emergency appointment!! So, I got one for October some time!! I went along and showed her (she is actually a lovely dentist) and then had to make an appointment to go back on 11th December at 9.15 am!! I went along on Tuesday, didn't get in to see her until 9.30. She had a prod around, asked if there was any pain and I said no. She started to clean around the tooth but it started to hurt, so she injected the gum and then carried on with it. The whole process took about half an hour but I was left with a numb lip until just before 1 pm!! Anyway, last night I noticed it felt very uncomfortable in my mouth, very lumpy (oh and it's white, not silver like the other one I had) Now it feels sharp in one corner, so I have a feeling it's coming off :-( Which means I'm either going to have to go back before Xmas or suffer till after!! I do have another appointment in February, she wanted to keep an eye on some other teeth, and they did say if they get a cancellation in the meantime they will call me in sooner. She also told me that it may come off over xmas and if it gets bad to call them!! So have I just had a temporary filling or what? The last one was fine, no trouble at all! I don't like going to the dentis and now have to go even sooner than I wanted to.....oh well, merry Christmas!!! x