I hadn't been to my dentist since May-2004 (normally I went on weekends, but since Sofia and the kids moved to Montreal, I am not in Ottawa on the weekends). Last night, as I was munching on some cashews, I felt a pain in one of my molars and then some grit in my mouth. I went and washed it out, assuming that maybe there had been a stone or something amount the cashews. Turns out I noticed a hole in the surface of the molar (top right, second from the back, my wisdom teeth were removed years ago). Fishing around for grit in my mouth, it looked like crumbled filling. So I assumed that my filling had cracked and crumbled and come out. Went to the dentist this morning, he took an x-ray and came back with bad news. I have a large cavity under the filling, which gave way. The filling did not fall out, but rather impacted into the space of the cavity. He did not rework the filling, since the cavity is very near the root - cleaning it out would likely result in exposing the root. As some
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We have an old house (1921) with a staircase so tight as it turns on the landing, Sleep Country had to bring out new bed up over the outside balcony and into the summer bedroom!
I've always wanted a house with a fireplace and still don't have it, but it's in the near future of the "doable"!
your stairs are the same as here in Japan,its not bad though :)
My new house has stairs, up a few to a landing, then up a few more to the second floor.
and we should be careful to step in that kind of stair.
MOI: we have a fireplace in both homes, but rarely use it. I think the last time we used the fireplace was back in 2000 or so.
ghee: straight staircases are practical and use the least space. But I am sure if you hunt around, you can find curved ones in Japan too.
bee: I think it depends on how twisted the stairs are. A gentle half or quarter turn to the second floor would be nice. I have no interest in climbing a corkscrew.
lunafish: I thinking of a more gentle curve rather than a upward spiral. Mind you, aside from a ladder, they conserve space very well.
ancilla: thank you for dropping by and leaving a comment. Certainly a bigger house, with more space and gentler curves would be nice. I am not convinced that a curved stairs are necessarily more dangerous. An alternative could be a staircase that sweeps downward, i.e. it starts wide at the bottom and gently narrows in a curvy way towards the top.