Toothache

zx1 · December 2016

For the first time in my 42 years I have toothache, it started last week and I tried to ignore it but it's starting to get worse.
Thankfully, I managed to get a dentist appointment for Thursday at 5pm so the work has changed my shift but I'm really, really nervous, I'd rather walk into a room full of spiders that go to the dentist. I haven't been to the dentist for 2 years and on top of this it'll cost a few quid that I don't have.
What a time of the year for this to happen, I hope it's just a filling and not an extraction!

Morkin · December 2016

I'd rather go to the dentist than walk into a room full of spiders.

def chris · December 2016

hope you get it sorted. toothache is easily the the most cripplingly intense pain ive experienced. had it full on for a week about 8 years ago (at xmas) and it is something i never want to go through again. totally the worst. properly sent me mad.

zx1 · December 2016

Luckily, it's still bearable not it's getting difficult to chew properly. Having to live off soft foods like ready brek and scrambled eggs.

dm_boozefreek · December 2016

No need to fear the dentists mate.

I started going again when I was about 28 or 29, after not going for about 14 or 15 years. To be honest the only thing that worried me a bit was them saying they're gonna fill this one, and kick this one out. But after scraping all the shite that had built up on them off, they said my teeth were in really good nick, better than I was expecting. Of course since then they have drilled one of the buggers, but that wasn't so bad either.

As weird as it sounds I actually look forward to my 6 month appointments now, the bastards give me a free toothbrush every time I go, but I still haven't got my sugar free raspberry lollipop :(

Rebelstar without a cause · December 2016

Morkin wrote: »

I'd rather go to the dentist than walk into a room full of spiders.

Me too, walking into a room full of spiders does nothing to cure toothache!

GreenCard · December 2016

Toothache really is horrid! Had a really bad one at mates wedding earlier this year. Almost ruined my day, until someone popped to the chemist and bought me some Anbesol liquid (which I'd never heard of until then). Couldn't feel my tooth at all after that. :D

dm_boozefreek · December 2016

Roughly translated a couple of G's of coke he rubbed into his gums :p

GreenCard · December 2016

dm_boozefreek wrote: »

Roughly translated a couple of G's of coke he rubbed into his gums :p

May as well have done! :D

polomint · December 2016

Toothache is nothing, it doesn't bother me at all, although I've not had it for years. Earache on the other hand usually has me headbutting a wall to take my mind of the pain lol

zx1 · December 2016

polomint wrote: »

Toothache is nothing, it doesn't bother me at all, although I've not had it for years. Earache on the other hand usually has me headbutting a wall to take my mind of the pain lol

Just murder some settlers in Fallout 4 to take your mind off it :))

polomint · December 2016

zx1 wrote: »

polomint wrote: »

Toothache is nothing, it doesn't bother me at all, although I've not had it for years. Earache on the other hand usually has me headbutting a wall to take my mind of the pain lol

Just murder some settlers in Fallout 4 to take your mind off it :))

Yep, that works quite well :D

fog · December 2016

I had a crap dentist for a few years, then he vanished. he didn't do good work.. the new bloke thankfully is great, BUT I feel their previous staff may have caused my teeth damage due to the "care".

I think 2 chistmas's I had a thing where a tooth crumbled in half, was around Christmas and was a pain to get treatment. had to use filler stuff. think it was due to the cold weather , it affects teeth.. but I work in the cold also , so I do feel that has an impact. I have some hairline cracks in a few teeth also, but even my dentist has a few of them.

you'll be in less pain after , look at it that way.

rich_chandler · December 2016

2 years ?? Tsh!!

I didn't go for 28 years, but the wife finally made me. Dentist looked round them, said "Yep, they're fine, come back and see me in 6 months" and charged me £15. Don't know why I bothered...

zx1 · December 2016

You must have an excellent set of gnashers. Which is a good thing at your age..... :))

grey key · December 2016

My dentist wanted to charge me £7,500 for implants, I said I couldn't afford it, and he said, yes you can, we can offer you a finance deal, it would have ended up costing over £15.000. I said No Way.

Antiriad2097 · December 2016

I got an infection under one of my front crowns 20 years ago (really didn't look after my teeth as a kid). One side of my face swelled up so much it was level with my nose, I looked like Quasimodo. Dentist who did my crowns at 17 was ace though, much better than the butcher I had as a kid. Stuck with him, going every few years, need some small fillings now and then to fix the old ones as they break but nothing major. Got a new dentist last year (old guy moved on), he took a look and did next to nothing. Overdue again, need to head back after new year. Its the hygenist I can't abide. Just get on with the scale and polish, I don't need a high and mighty lecture on how to brush my teeth every time. Nobody except dentists is that anal about teeth.

1024MAK · December 2016

Yeah, if you really want pain and discomfort, wait until a molar that has a filling in breaks in half at the root, but does not come out. Then before you know it, it gets infected. Then half your mouth swells up... including the roof of your mouth "growing" what feels like half a golf ball :((
And by the time you decide you've had enough of the pain, and of not being able to sleep, or eat properly, it's a Friday evening on a bank holiday weekend...

rich_chandler · December 2016

Antiriad2097 wrote: »

anal about teeth.

Hmmm, could the two be further apart???

1024MAK · December 2016

rich_chandler wrote: »

Antiriad2097 wrote: »

anal about teeth.

Hmmm, could the two be further apart???

Not if you are really fit and flexible and can bend around that far...

rich_chandler · December 2016

1024MAK wrote: »

rich_chandler wrote: »

Antiriad2097 wrote: »

anal about teeth.

Hmmm, could the two be further apart???

Not if you are really fit and flexible and can bend around that far...

No pictures please...

polomint · December 2016

Chewing your own ass...

dm_boozefreek · December 2016

Self Bumilingus :))

zx1 · December 2016

I had to get a front tooth removed some years ago as it has been filled recently and it became infected, I was told that if I had left it much longer it would have turned to an abcess.....

Rebelstar without a cause · December 2016

dm_boozefreek wrote: »

Self Bumilingus :))

Though that was an airline!

JuanF. Ramirez · December 2016

ZX1, don't forget to tell your dentist to use anaesthetic. It is vital. Take a bottle of american bourbon with you, just in case.

moggy · December 2016

Get it sorted quick man before it gets worse.
They no longer strap you down and give you nitrous oxide to put you out any more, they're more civilised these days (well south of the border). :D

textvoyage · December 2016

Good luck at the dentist!
I had some teeth extracted when I was a kid and had the laughing gas. I hallucinated a bit, and remember it looked as if the dentist had about 8 arms and was passing items through all of these 8 hands before putting them on the side. Plus there was music playing on the radio that sounded like religious chanting! I wasn't scared though, I actually enjoyed it.
I think I'd enjoy the dentists more if they brought back the gas!

dm_boozefreek · December 2016

I quite liked the nitrous that stuff was mental :))

textvoyage · December 2016

Another thing about dentists is the outrageous costs for some treatments, yes I was quoted £10 grand for an implant a few years ago. Didn't need to think too long about that.
I suspect there's a secret door in those dentists chairs to collect all of the coins that fall out of customers pockets during the day when the seat tips back!

zx1 · December 2016

Well, i've been to the dentist, he said that there was a wisdom tooth at the back that hadn't come through properly and a flap of skin was partially covering it, that had become infected. He gave me a prescription for antibiotics and special antibacterial mouthwash and said that should do the trick but if not, the wisdom tooth will need to be extracted >:P
The dental assistant was pretty hot though but the actual dentist was a guy. There's 4 female dentists and i got the only guy :))
He did say he;d like me to come back as after he checked my mouth he said there was a couple of old fillings he wanted to look at. After all that, i was so bloody worked up i walked out without paying, i went back later though after i realised what i did, they were very nice about it :))
Only cost me a tenner.

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