Wednesday Feb 11, 2009 -- The doctor and dentist appointments become somewhat of a constant blur. Today I get an MRI done at Kaiser in Antioch. The MRI tech is a cancer survivor and I explain the basics of MRI physics to her and afterwards she lets me see the scans. It’s amazing what they can see with this technology.

Then it’s back to Dr. Patil and replacing my last four old amalgams. Now there is less metal in my mouth that would scatter the x-rays and increase the intensity where we don’t want it and decrease it where we do. These wouldn’t interfere nearly as much as my braces, but why take any unnecessary chances.