So I had a molar pulled two months ago. It was a hellish ordeal for me because I metabolize the anisthetic quickly. And it makes me shake a lot, so I can't sit still. But anyway. When my dentist considered himself finished, I heard him say to the nurse "There's still a piece in there." Well, I wasn't going to do anything about it, they had to cut the bitch out while the numbness wore off and stabbed me in the cheek besides, so I was done with dentists for a while.
Today, I had half a big bag of Tostito chips, and just now I pulled a big piece of tooth out of my gums. I'm kind of relived, because I was worried that I'd have to go back to get it taken care of, and I already owe them money.
Edit: To fill in the gaping holes of reason here, I was associating the sharp pokey bits with stimulation, which made the tooth bit come to the surface. I always seem to leave out about fifty percent of the important information...
Right now Im eating tostitos with cheese-jalapeño.
No teeths have fallen off yet.
Quote from: JohNyx on November 22, 2009, 04:46:20 AM
Right now Im eating tostitos with cheese-jalapeño.
No teeths have fallen off yet.
Well, mine was one that was mostly gone BEFORE it got pulled, and when it was pulled it left some behind. And its infected as hell.
Everytime ive gotten a tooth pulled (all of my wisdom teeth last year, im only 23, but its pre-braces procedure), i took i think 5 days of anti-bios and i was fine on every case, except for one that some food got stuck underneath the healing, which involved cutting open and retrieving it.
You can die from that kind of infection.
Quote from: JohNyx on November 22, 2009, 04:52:06 AM
Everytime ive gotten a tooth pulled (all of my wisdom teeth last year, im only 23, but its pre-braces procedure), i took i think 5 days of anti-bios and i was fine on every case, except for one that some food got stuck underneath the healing, which involved cutting open and retrieving it.
You can die from that kind of infection.
...While that is certainly what I might have, I don't think so because the gums are only red and irritated where the tooth bit came up at, right next to my very back molar.
I still have to get my wisdom teeth removed, there's no room on the bottom for them to come in at all.
I'm 33 and haven't seen any signs of wisdom tooth growing in-ness in my face hole.
What's the deal
How big of a piece was it? I'm curious.
Half a centimeter long exactly (about a quarter inch) and only a little smaller than that at its widest point.
That's fairly huge. I had a tiny tiny piece of tooth fall off a molar once and it was so sharp and it felt like half the tooth was missing. I had never experienced that before, so it was very distracting.
Odd that the dentist just left it there though.
I had hysterics when the SECOND set of shots wore off while they were still trying to pull the bitch out. That's probably why.
Needle fear, eh? Don't sweat, it'll probably serve you well in the long run. Never bothered me though, even though it kinda does hurt. Mostly I get kind of mystified at how cool it is that we can do that stuff, then I start thinking about how our skin is semi-permeable, and what that implies about our relation with our environment, and how that translates into a false sense of self, and then suddenly I have to get out of the chair and I lose my train of thought. :(
Quote from: Squid on November 22, 2009, 05:06:59 AM
I'm 33 and haven't seen any signs of wisdom tooth growing in-ness in my face hole.
What's the deal
Not everyone gets them. Apparently some people are more evolved than others, you advanced motherfucker.
Quote from: Felix on November 22, 2009, 05:23:24 AM
Needle fear, eh? Don't sweat, it'll probably serve you well in the long run. Never bothered me though, even though it kinda does hurt. Mostly I get kind of mystified at how cool it is that we can do that stuff, then I start thinking about how our skin is semi-permeable, and what that implies about our relation with our environment, and how that translates into a false sense of self, and then suddenly I have to get out of the chair and I lose my train of thought. :(
Needle fear, yes, but it wa smore than that. Him wiggling the damn thing back and forth hurt like a son of a bitch, and it didn't help that AT THAT VERY MOMENT when the numbness wore off, he stabbe me in the cheeck with one of those screwdriver-plier-thinguses. I was having a Bad Day.
Yikes, what a butcher.
I have a theory, that the majority of surgeons and dentists are sadistic.
Or in the case of liking watching gore, id include paramedics to that grouping.
I'd think that if a medical practitioner were to hurt you, it would be a matter of ineptitude rather than them getting their jollies from it.
Surely you don't think...?
the topic of this thread cracked me up
I have the opposite problem with anaesthetic.
I need a double (if not triple) dose just to have a filling done. My first filling was hilariously bad. I was like "is this actually working?" and then the dentist was like "OK, lie back now" and then there was me furiously pounding the arm of my chair and making frantic waving motions with my other hand.
Twice.
And they never believe me when I say I need more than what they normally give. They look at me like I'm a drug addict or something. Until the drilling starts, at least.
Sounds like we have the same problem. They gave me one dose, and it didn't work, so they gave me more. and then it wore off, so they gave me more.
man, when i got my wisdom teeth out, i had a great time. i requested "happy" pills as i hadn't gone to the dentist for quite some time. so i got nitrous and valium. the entire time i had the theme music from indiana jones stuck in my head. "we're after the lost ark!!" there was a bit of adrenaline in each shot i got too - talk about a rush! we saved the last tooth for last cuz it was impacted and the dentist wasn't sure if he was going to be able to remove it. by then i was pretty used to it and i kept egging him on, "come on man! you can do it! you're just not pulling hard enough!"
he yanked and yanked to no avail and i ended up having to go see an oral surgeon the next day. being unconcious for teeth pulling is way less of an adventure.
Quote from: Nasturtiums on November 22, 2009, 06:43:38 AM
I'd think that if a medical practitioner were to hurt you, it would be a matter of ineptitude rather than them getting their jollies from it.
Surely you don't think...?
Im not saying they are hurting you beyond the task they have to do, but its implicit in just what they do in the operation itself.
Dentistry seems good money as a profession, but i dont particularly enjoy cutting people open or watching blood or watch them twitch; thus, i never considered becoming a dentist.
Quote from: rong on November 22, 2009, 09:39:30 PM
man, when i got my wisdom teeth out, i had a great time. i requested "happy" pills as i hadn't gone to the dentist for quite some time. so i got nitrous and valium. the entire time i had the theme music from indiana jones stuck in my head. "we're after the lost ark!!" there was a bit of adrenaline in each shot i got too - talk about a rush! we saved the last tooth for last cuz it was impacted and the dentist wasn't sure if he was going to be able to remove it. by then i was pretty used to it and i kept egging him on, "come on man! you can do it! you're just not pulling hard enough!"
he yanked and yanked to no avail and i ended up having to go see an oral surgeon the next day. being unconcious for teeth pulling is way less of an adventure.
I'M BLOWING UP THE ARK, RENE!
Quote from: Cain on November 22, 2009, 03:26:43 PM
I have the opposite problem with anaesthetic.
I need a double (if not triple) dose just to have a filling done. My first filling was hilariously bad. I was like "is this actually working?" and then the dentist was like "OK, lie back now" and then there was me furiously pounding the arm of my chair and making frantic waving motions with my other hand.
Twice.
And they never believe me when I say I need more than what they normally give. They look at me like I'm a drug addict or something. Until the drilling starts, at least.
Sounds like my experiences. Also, they wear off too quickly. Doesn't help that I hate not being fully aware of what they are doing, but some pain (most) is too much.
Now SPIT!
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Quote from: Mistress Freeky on November 22, 2009, 04:30:53 AM
So I had a molar pulled two months ago. It was a hellish ordeal for me because I metabolize the anisthetic quickly. And it makes me shake a lot, so I can't sit still. But anyway. When my dentist considered himself finished, I heard him say to the nurse "There's still a piece in there." Well, I wasn't going to do anything about it, they had to cut the bitch out while the numbness wore off and stabbed me in the cheek besides, so I was done with dentists for a while.
Today, I had half a big bag of Tostito chips, and just now I pulled a big piece of tooth out of my gums. I'm kind of relived, because I was worried that I'd have to go back to get it taken care of, and I already owe them money.
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on November 22, 2009, 04:32:45 AM
Edit: To fill in the gaping holes of reason here, I was associating the sharp pokey bits with stimulation, which made the tooth bit come to the surface. I always seem to leave out about fifty percent of the important information...
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on November 22, 2009, 04:48:40 AM
Quote from: JohNyx on November 22, 2009, 04:46:20 AM
Right now Im eating tostitos with cheese-jalapeño.
No teeths have fallen off yet.
Well, mine was one that was mostly gone BEFORE it got pulled, and when it was pulled it left some behind. And its infected as hell.
Dental hygiene ftw.
Pulling a wisdom tooth that is under a fibric gum does not end in a visually pleasing result.
P.S. If your dentist fucks up your mouth, they are responsible for their fuckup.
Quote from: Squid on November 22, 2009, 05:06:59 AM
I'm 33 and haven't seen any signs of wisdom tooth growing in-ness in my face hole.
What's the deal
YOU'RE FUCKED. THEY GREW IN BACKWARDS, AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA CHEW YOURSELF TO DEATH.
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on November 22, 2009, 04:35:16 PM
Sounds like we have the same problem. They gave me one dose, and it didn't work, so they gave me more. and then it wore off, so they gave me more.
Could be. But the last time I had anything done to my teeth, it took forever to wear off. Maybe
because they had to give me so much, I don't know.
So they DO have dentists in England...
Yes.
However only the gilded classes can afford them. Peasants must make do with pliers and glue, unless they can find an NHS dentist without eleventy billion registered members already.
Only the gilded classes can afford it here too. You should SEE what a dental copay looks like (if you're lucky enough to have coverage). :x
Quote from: Suu on November 24, 2009, 05:47:42 PM
Only the gilded classes can afford it here too. You should SEE what a dental copay looks like (if you're lucky enough to have coverage). :x
Tell me about it. I had to put braces in my kids' mouths, and it involved arterial bleeding from my pocketbook.
Soon you too could have teeth like the British public. Yay, progress!
Quote from: Cain on November 24, 2009, 05:50:21 PM
Soon you too could have teeth like the British public. Yay, progress!
BEATS SOCIALISM!
Um.
Wait.
GS is apparently going to get good coverage when it kicks in with his new job. He's going right for the Invisalign. I need to have all the plastic bonding stripped out of my mouth and replaced with porcelain crowns, but insurance doesn't cover that ANYWAY. So I'm fucked.
When I got my front toof fixed last year, the bond cost me almost $300 out of pocket...for 30 minutes worth of work and no anesthetics. The dentist was a cool guy and understood I was broke so he didn't push a good crown on me, he just recommended it when I could afford it. He basically wants to reshape my front teeth. They're straight from having braces, but the sizes are weird and I look like a jack rabbit (or an Otter, which is of course, my USAF call sign). I think he quoted me like $3000 for an Invisalign treatment for a few months, and then the removal of the bonding and re-sculpting with porcelain. :x
My copay is $10 for everything with my dad's insurance. im going to be so sad when im not covered under it anymore
My copay is $20, eye, dental, medical doesn't matter.
My mom had four wisdom teeth, and my dad had none. Both me and my brother ended up with two.
Mine are coming in right now, fuck if I'm gonna get them yanked. Plenty of room in this mouth.
my wisdom teeth started coming in when i was 12 :?
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on November 22, 2009, 04:30:53 AM
So I had a molar pulled two months ago. It was a hellish ordeal for me because I metabolize the anisthetic quickly. And it makes me shake a lot, so I can't sit still. But anyway. When my dentist considered himself finished, I heard him say to the nurse "There's still a piece in there." Well, I wasn't going to do anything about it, they had to cut the bitch out while the numbness wore off and stabbed me in the cheek besides, so I was done with dentists for a while.
Today, I had half a big bag of Tostito chips, and just now I pulled a big piece of tooth out of my gums. I'm kind of relived, because I was worried that I'd have to go back to get it taken care of, and I already owe them money.
THIS THREAD DEMANDS PICS OF YOUR FUCKED UP RETARD MOUTH!
Quote from: GIGGLES on November 24, 2009, 10:41:42 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on November 22, 2009, 04:30:53 AM
So I had a molar pulled two months ago. It was a hellish ordeal for me because I metabolize the anisthetic quickly. And it makes me shake a lot, so I can't sit still. But anyway. When my dentist considered himself finished, I heard him say to the nurse "There's still a piece in there." Well, I wasn't going to do anything about it, they had to cut the bitch out while the numbness wore off and stabbed me in the cheek besides, so I was done with dentists for a while.
Today, I had half a big bag of Tostito chips, and just now I pulled a big piece of tooth out of my gums. I'm kind of relived, because I was worried that I'd have to go back to get it taken care of, and I already owe them money.
THIS THREAD DEMANDS PICS OF YOUR FUCKED UP RETARD MOUTH!
WILL DO WHEN I FIND MY CAMERA