Dentists!!
I whent to the Dentist today for my first ever filling.
Based on my previous evperiences and the rumours you hear I was dreading it.
I dont know what all the fuss was about, it was painless and trouble free. Then again it was only the most shallow of fillings.
Anyone had any bad dental experiences?
Based on my previous evperiences and the rumours you hear I was dreading it.
I dont know what all the fuss was about, it was painless and trouble free. Then again it was only the most shallow of fillings.
Anyone had any bad dental experiences?
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Really didnt like dentists back in the 80's but nowadays it seems (touch wood) so much more advanced and less painful.
(She did tell me the gel they use for kids but i didnt care, numbed my gum so i didnt feel the needle !)
They gave me an injection and it hurt like f**K. I let out a real loud yelp as they dug it right in (seemingly as far as it would go).
The orginal broken tooth was one of the 5 he filled.
Sooo...no not been since!
I'm a great believer in the idea that dentists are out to make money and will drill/fill a tooth even if it doesn't need it. I've had no problems in the last 20yrs but I guarantee if I had been going every 6months/yr I would have had more filled/removed by now.
i go to the dentist once a fortnight now.
Only that my last trip to the dentist cost me ?195 on the NHS! Remind me again why I pay my stamps each week?
Yeah, thats somthing I've always wondered. All that good adivce that densists would give school children. Even as I kid I thaught, if we all look after out teeth then you would be out of a job. Therefore I cant take this advice a face value.
Eat an apple not a chocolcte bar they would say. I thaught you were more likely to chip a tooth eating an Apple than say a Mars bar.
Was there not some curfuffle a while back about a acid of apples being more worse for you teeth than a chocolate bar. All I can remember of it now was the dental association kicking up a real stink about it.
When I was a mere 7 or 8 years, I also had a fistula. No idea really what it was, but I remember having quite some pain and the dentist was a sadistic f*cker. Not the best way to get introduced to the dental world as a kid.
Ha ha funny you say that. When i finally went to the dentist after all those years what you said was true, the young girl kept putting her breasts constantly in my face. My mum was the dental nurse (NOT the dentist) there and i said how i would go back much more now !
The guy is brilliant. I was having a bunch of jaw pain a while back, and he diagnosed it as a problem with my bite... A couple of sessions of grinding my teeth and measuring my bite, and lo and behold, no more jaw pain.
I also had to have a couple of crowns fitted, and apart from the horrible feeling when the temporary crowns are pulled off and the new crowns are put on, it all went great... plus I now have a couple of gold teeth... Just like a pirate... Aaarr!
Andrew
My fault for pretending i was in the Redhand gang on a mission and cycling so fast !
I hope you don't have a diamond in them or an 'A' & 'R'.....Fo real foo!
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The first three under general anaesthetic - they were doing three at once and I thought it'd be best to be 'out' for that. They used gas. Although I never felt any pain, it wasn't very pleasant - I was never completely out - I could still hear everything going on, and a vague tugging at my jaw as they wrenched the teeth out. And I woke up half way through and they had to gas me again. And the gas tasted horrible. And it didn't make me laugh. The hearing was strange too, all flanged and kind of distant.
The last tooth they pulled under local anaesthetic, and the injection almost knocked me out as well as hurting a lot when they put it in.
My dad is allergic to novacaine and won't have the injections. He says the dentist is really, really careful compared to when they have anaesthesis!
[0] Regular tooth brushing, eating very little stuff with refined sugars, and drinking gallons of unsugared tea per day - your teeth will go on for a long time without needing filling.
I'm not sure, I think my teeth a Geneticly strong. My nan went her entire life with no fillings. She passed on in her 70's. Thats not bad considdering that tooth paste, brushes and dental hygene though the years were not as good as they are now.
The dentist told me that it does not really count as a proper filling as the decay was so shallow and small. So really I could still be a valid member of Winston's select no fillings club.
I has excatly the same thing done to me.
Where did you read that the Cornish Pasty Gazzete?
It was years ago...probably an anti-dentist thing.
Gillian McKeiths guide to healthy teeth.
My trouble is I lack the gene that controls the flow of calcium so I have to take calcium tablets and this fluctuation in the levels sometimes has an effect on the teeth.
In dentist anteroom I met beautiful woman, we take a speech, she was married for my bad luck, she was sarkastic smiling and making fun of dentist itself, it was meaningless to give her offer to go to a coffee, because she was married.
You have much to learn young Padawan
For many years before and after that I went to the dentist regularly every six months. From time to time they would scrape and clean my teeth. Some years later I had to get my wisdom teeth removed, which was done under general anaesthetic in hospital. My jaw locked for a week.
Eventually my dentist moved to pastures new and I went to another place. A woman who put me in mind of a Russian shot-putter was assigned as my dentist, and she spent most of the time chatting with the (much fitter) dental nurse about the TV last night, rather than paying attention to where she was jabbing the spiky-thing.
I haven't been to the dentist since - about 6 years.
I also have no fillings. Yet.
I remember when i started going to the dentist on a regular basis i had a pretty young thing just out of dental school. I used to enjoy when she worked on the far side of my mouth, she would have to lean over and i could feel her breasts pressing into my arm. It was the only thing that kept me going!
This week I saw another dentist for a second opinion. He was ultra informative about the state of my gums and teeth and could not see a need to fill the tooth, saying Listerine mouth wash with fluoride will sort that out if you do it daily.
From what I can tell my prior dentist has been attempting to milk me for the mast two years, by increasing number of visits a year, and putting on the hard sell for extra things like buying a water flosser from them and recommending root cleanings and needless wisdom tooth removal.