Return to the dentist

I slid back in the same dentist chair in which I underwent the under-sedation dental procedure in June 2012. The reason: the paresthesia still lingers in a small but noticeable quadrant in my tongue, and the nerve endings "fire up" sporadically, once every two weeks or so. The dentist poked me with a slightly blunt instrument to see if I felt pressure and then the sharp end of the device, and really maneuvered around in my mouth. He tried to offer me encouragement, that it would take some time, but he's just guessing that healing will be 100 percent. It could very well be 95 percent, and that I would have to live with my condition. But I'm not at that stage yet, since final healing hasn't progressed to the level I am hoping, but it is technically still progressing.