Man, how did I not look into this thread for several days?
@Shady: Glad the missus was ok!
@Tale: I was in a similar boat as you. I hadnt bothered to go to the dentist for *cough20yearscough* and needed to get some work done on a tooth, and let me tell you, it felt like I went through a time warp. I needed a crown too but it would take a week or so to be made so in the meantime he literally fashioned a tooth out of this putty like substance, put some yellow lens safety glasses on me and grabbed a wand which illuminated the putty in a blue laser for ~8-10 seconds and BOOM, the tooth was done. Fully hardened and ready for chewing almost instantly. I'm so old I actually have "silver amalgam" in some other fillings but the stuff a modern dentist can do was just short of wizardry to me. I was honestly flabbergasted.