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May 2020
10:27am, 20 May 2020
12,753 posts
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Garfield
MMM your story reminds me of when I picked hubby up from the hospital when he had a deviated septum fixed.
He was given general anaesthetic and we went to the chemist to pick up painkillers for him...he was a little wobbly trying to keep his balance in the queue and had a bloody gauze patch taped under his nose, and was looking somewhat under the weather!!
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May 2020
10:35am, 20 May 2020
19,759 posts
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Dvorak
Banned from the dentist as a child after biting him. Was a frequent visitor until then. Unhappy times. I'm informed that he told my parents "take that little monster away and never bring him back.". So they didn't. By age 13 my teeth were in a terrible state.
Eventually had to go and by this time the practice had a second dentist I could see. He talked me down from my terror enough to have weeks of work done (I had it scheduled to miss Latin and French) culminating in five extractions (four of which were an extra set of canines).
Sundry other work after (at different practices) culminating in a final, horrific, extraction over twenty years ago. And I have never returned since.
A very large back filling has come to pieces over the last couple of years and in the first week of lockdown I pulled out a front filling which appears to have been ¾ of the tooth. Bad timing.
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May 2020
10:44am, 20 May 2020
46,629 posts
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Velociraptor
Will you go back to the dentist and get that fixed when normal service is resumed, Dvorak?
I tend only to bother the dentist if something happens, but have been mightily pleased to have someone with the skills and kit to take out painful cracked or crumbling teeth when the need has arisen.
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May 2020
11:04am, 20 May 2020
16,480 posts
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Bazoaxe
When I was about 15/16 I needed a tooth out as I had an overcrowded mouth. The tooth turned out to have three roots when it should have one and I started to come round before it was out.
I was given an extra shot of gas and ended up with three teeth out as the one either side were dislodged.
I awoke sometime later in a separate room. With my dad by my bed and by all accounts I was out for a long time and there was some concern over me.
As soon as I came round I was violently sick and ultimately was carried out to the car to get home and spent the rest of the day in bed.
That wasn’t a nice experience that day.
Also I was only given two of the three teeth as the one with three roots was sent off to the dental museum or done thing as it was a rarity.
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May 2020
11:09am, 20 May 2020
12,566 posts
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Cerrertonia
Some parts of the process of having implants felt like they should've been outlawed under the Geneva Convention. Very pleased with the results and the dentist and his staff were lovely throughout the ~18 month process, but there were certainly some very painful moments, in spite of the anaesthetic.
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May 2020
11:18am, 20 May 2020
19,761 posts
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Dvorak
I had steeled myself to contact a dentist, V'rap's, and even called the OOO/ unregistered number (to no avail). Then I was going to call the practice in town ... the day they closed :-/
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May 2020
11:23am, 20 May 2020
5,860 posts
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Eynsham Red
My dentist when I was a child would give my sister and me a packet of sweet cigarettes if we’d behaved ourselves in the chair. Talk about a job creation scheme!
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May 2020
11:29am, 20 May 2020
11,540 posts
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Markymarkmark
Cerratonia, when I visited the dental hygienist after the work was all done, she dropped into the conversation that she loved working on people who'd had implants because "they no longer care what you do in their mouth"!
The painful bit was when my surgeon "discovered" my nerves to the front of my mouth are cross wired - injection deadened the right patch but on the opposite side expected. Apparently it's not uncommon.
The weirdest bit for me was the voluntary removal of my two front teeth - almost a sad, certainly a wistful, moment.
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May 2020
3:47pm, 20 May 2020
5,733 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
Yes, nerve crossover is quite common top front.
This is great. I can now call watching this thread Working From Home!
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May 2020
4:20pm, 20 May 2020
12,755 posts
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Garfield
LOL and your name is rather interesting...a reflection on the job!? 
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