Dental day here too.  I chipped the back off a tooth...front of tooth and filling are intact, but inner tooth is just gone.  It doesn't hurt so dentist put me off until next week.  I'm with W of Bath----drugs for me when they drill.  

I was supposed to have jury duty today, but they cancelled the  trial.  I should have just gone back to bed....  

I have had crowns that came out and were simply glued back in. I can definitely empathize with the money worries. My dentist thought he had his mortgage payment when he recommended doing all four lower incisors just after charging me about $1,000 to put fillings on most faces of those same incisors. I told him I expected to get more mileage out of the work he had just done. The best dentist I ever had offered a five year prorated warranty on crowns! He could afford to. His never came out.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

Anesthetic is only needed if there is still a live root, which has always been the case for me. I guess my roots don't die easily. Add to that the fact that I have double innervations for many teeth....my gums could be like pincushions after anesthetic. For my uppers I would sometimes get bleeding from my sinus cavities afterwards.
 

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."