unwise

my wisdom tooth fell off today...  it's been jiggling for years but i never brought it to a dentist because of a regrettable experience i had the first time in decades i made a non-prophylaxis visit to one...

so from childhood to adulthood my teeth were fine until one morning five-and-a-half years ago when a tooth got chipped a teenie-weenie bit...  the dentists (i went to two) then drilled, roughened and carved out 'spines' on my good teeth so that the filling they were going to insert would stick.  well, the fillings kept on falling off (on a daily basis!) and daily my good teeth were being intentionally chipped and roughened to create attachment points for the filling!  even the original chip was enlarged because it was too small to hold a filling!

i had good teeth for practically a lifetime and in a one-week period my teeth suddenly deteriorated big-time!  they say, 'to do a great right, do a little wrong.'  in this case i think it was the reverse.  to do a little right a great wrong was done.  had i known my good teeth would be reduced by so much i would just have let the chip be.  it was so tiny for heaven's sake!

some imperfections are better left as is if correcting them would entail damage to so much more.

the greatest good for the greatest number.