dredged

After some canal-rootling at the dentist, my lower lip felt like it was flapping around somewhere beneath my chin, leaking drool. The rain hid most of the drool and the reality of the lip-floppiness was not as apparent from the outside.
It was all quite painless. Apparently the event which caused the tooth's death may have been years in the past, as I couldn't recall anything recently but have had a couple of dunts in the beak from children bouncing up when leaning towards them, plus the whole land-on-my-chin event when I slipped off my bike on some oil on the Mound in 2005.