Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Apparently, it was the filling that 'stirred the pot', so to speak, and accounted for the fact that the nerve suddenly got so inflamed, before it had time to get infected or anything like that. There was no problem with pain from that tooth before the filling, to speak of, but once he'd drilled away the old, broken-down metal filling and drilled out all the decay underneath and filled it, THAT'S when the nerve decided it had had enough!

Oh, well. The nurse told me that my dentist would deduct the cost of that filling on Monday (which had to be removed by the endodontist today, of course) from the cost of the crown that would probably have to be done now. I must make sure to remind him of that!