so much of my precious existence

found me rooted with mouth ajar

as sigh asper the dentin-cementum

so mud dear reader (with dem perfect

enameled pearly whites), aye har bar

envy for those with a complete set

 

of eight incisors, four cuspids (i.e. canines),

eight bicuspids, and twelve molars

(including four wisdom teeth) tabulating

many hours in the car (engendering

saddle sore bony tuckus)

plus regarding chunk whereat,

 

pernicious cementum funk

viz distraught psyche, when muss self as a lil monk

key decades after being examined

by family dentist Doctor Marcus (NOT WELBY),

excellent practitioner (button irate pulp pill

 

people ' especially children) eater – the grump,

whose private practice located

in Levittown, Pennsylvania,

and when prepubescent underwent
 

pertinent more explicit focused

intense noninvasive procedures

asper subsequent cause of speech impediment

determined why air didst jump

 

thru nostrils, (speech therapist at Henry Kline Boyer),

neither thin nor plump informed parents

of Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic –

fifty plus miles one direction),

 

where chief prosthodontist (the curt

Doctor Mohammad N. Mazaheri, DDS, an Iranian

whose expert reputation, sans strict manner didst trump

his aura, karma evincing clipped commands

forceful as a vocal whump

 

before launching into meat and potatoes

of crux comprising real aim

constituting modus operandi

(and cresting away from details indirectly tide
 

into main intent, nobody aye blame)

for thine dental debacle quandary

(managed by gumshun,

whereby eons hyperbolically toted beyond google),

and despite optimistic stance

wool worth anesthetized numb skull claim

 

nascent malocclusion faintly affecting,

hinting, pointing toward Periodontitis

(despite diligence attending to oral hygiene frame)

the manifestation of major looming crisis compromising,

forgoing, instigating, et cetera loss of teeth,

 

this (after agony in league with separate occasions

twice wearing braces, concomitant Extractions

of wisdom and removal of crowdsourcing –

closeup toward the front of mouth teeth - game

 

some agents provocateur didst maim

self-acceptance, and (found thyself

as a boyish twenty something

weathering onset of gum recession,

maxillofacial surgery, impressions,

xrays galore, scaling)

 

necessitated (score years later) urgent intervention

i.e. treatment plan under auspices

re storied name

University of Pennsylvania

Dental School to mitigate malady

 

entailed every last tooth plucked with ease

since no other recourse could tame

accompanying jaw bone loss,

which destabilized rootless choppers,

and despite the state of the mind turning to pulp

(this haint no “fiction, nor FAKE)

 

thus I acknowledge sincere gratitude thru poetic aire

for the entire fleet of dental students,

and staff that didst care,

who assuaged distress, exceeding the best expertise flair
 

which eventually warranted being fitted for dentures here

bringing an exemplary end result

encompassing yours truly writing in his lair

after about a dozen years encompassing

 

so many wing (bitten) angels far and near

across the webbed wide world to help repair

chronic distress minimized now, cuz there

prevailed the most blessed delight

when Medicare picked up the tab

now smile more willingly with artificial dental wear.