Grandma Gets Drilled, Talks MMA and Learns Dentist Likes Vick!

If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all!

After being intubated (or extubated, since I do not remember either), two fillings were knocked off my upper teeth, requiring having them refilled.

As always I ventured off to the dentist well prepared to educate anyone or everyone I came in contact with about MMA and  as usual, Georges St. Pierre.

Unfortunately my conversation starter GSP shirts were all in the laundry due to the recent spate of appointments I have had which all resulted from my surgery on May 20th.

Thinking back on it now I wonder if the anesthetist knocked my fillings loose due to my "teaching him" all about MMA and GSP...Nah! He was too much of a professional to do that.

Today, however I had to swallow true fear upon learning that my dentist was a Michael Vick fan.

I did learn a valuable lesson about keeping my mouth shut (figuratively speaking of course or I couldn't have had the teeth filled), and not argue with the man with the drill.

Other than having a small panic attack, forgetting to breathe one time, and swallowing parts of my old, drilled out filling leadin to a coughing/choking fit, I didn't fare too badly at the hands of the Michael Vick fan, who now knows as much about gentleman Georges St. Pierre as he does about the pit bull killer Michael Vidk.

Our exchange of knowledge on the two men was remarkable, however, because unlike with my comments to readers on the B/R, I was in no position to argue with Dr. S due to his hand and instuments being in my mouth at the time.

Thus I learned all about Vick's days at Virginia Tech and other details I had not really desired to learn.

But fair is fair and it was almost like having an out of body experience for me to imagine seeing myself lying rigidly on the reclined dental chair as my husband answered all the questions the dentist had about MMA and GSP.

Who ever would have believed that my avid NASCAR loving husband could have learned so much about "my sport" to be able to correctly answer questions for me!

What a tremendous relief to have him channeling my thoughts and relaying them to the dentist.

So the upside of my visit, other than two very expensive fillings, was that my dentist told me about some very expensive mouth guards that actually enhance an athlete's ability to breathe by encouraging a forward placement of the lower jaw, while increasing the fighters strength!

Wow! What a neat concept!

If a mouth guard had been available I would have purchased one for my grandson for football and wrestling this fall.

Did you know that even golfers are wearing these mouth guards to strengthen their swings?

Well neither did I.

Dr. S assured me that athletes in all sports are buying these devices at two thousand dollars each.

Pricey, but if they are all he says that they are, it is 2K well spent.

So as a result of the one sided conversation on Michael Vick we all agreed he is a despicable person where morality is concerned, but possibly still a good enough player for an NFL team to take a chance on this year.

Further more I learned that an office worker there was an aunt of a fighter named "Garcia" who is currently fighting in the MMA.

Although I didn't get to meet her,  the assistant working on me and the doctor want to see the picture Georges autographed and sent to me when I come in for my checkup, so I may meet her then too.

Oh, the only UFC fighter my dentist recalled watching was Tito Ortiz, so Dr. S is not at all current on his MMA viewing.

Naturally, I made him promise to purchase the PPV for UFC 100 so he can update his knowledge of GSP.

He made me promise to agree to giving Michael Vick another chance.

Funny what I will agree to with a drill in my mouth!