Je suis en wimp

Got the dentists at 10.15 and I have to tell them to take two teeth out.

Not looking forward to it- and they may not even do it today.

Why am I afraid of the dentist?

Aww, bless. I have blood tests at 10:50 but fine with it.

Just remember to breathe and try to relax (though I know this is rather difficult!) x

Ask for extra drugs

I'd hoped they were going to knock me out to whip out the roots, then nail in the ti pegs.

No such luck.

HTFU!

Someone had to say it.

@ ldngrrl, letting blood & having molars taken out at the root are not even close to being the same thing.

Dammit, i think people are afraid of the dentist because it's fundamentally invasive, they speak in a strange number code language & it's generally uncomfortable. You'll prob just get x-rayed & such today, if they do do some work... request a Pot Belge of codeine & novocaine with a huff on some nitrous oxide as a chaser. Then come to south drinks.

@ Charco, I know.

Got the dentists at 10.15 and I have to tell them to take two teeth out.

Not looking forward to it- and they may not even do it today.

Why am I afraid of the dentist?

Because it fckin' hurts I'd say.

Je suis en winp?

You are in a wimp? is that a sex thing??

Mais non Dammit, tu n'es pas un wimp!

the dentist scares me too, haven't been for 6 years now, bet it'll be well fun when I eventually get there...

I've recently went to the dentist because of my wisdom teeth, its a very invasive have someone scrape around the inside of you mouth. Don't like it one bit.

What really sucks for me is i've been on a course of antibiotics and the dentist said if the infection in my wisdom teeth does not clear up after this course, i'm gonna have to have them pulled. And that won't be fun :(

I understand your fear dammit. Pas bon.

I had that magic gas when my teeth were removed. not all of them.

Gas FTW!

I've already told you how to deal with this, sit up really fast and smack your head on the light thing, bingo bango, auto-anaesthesia!! or, just keep saying you can feel whatever they're doing so they give you the maximum number of injections you're allowed*

*almost sensible advice.

Great success!

They cleaned all the cement from the arch-bars off, polished everything, noted down all the damage (I get to have eight fillings over the next few weeks) and then let me go.

This is only a stay of execution however- due to only having the roots left of the two teeth that need to come out there is not much for the surgical mole grips to get onto, therefore they will need to cut the gum open to reveal more tooth to be gripped.

This needs two injections, around half an hour apart prior to the cutting/pulling/foot on chest session.

So that's next Wednesday- an almost unimaginable length of time away, so I may as well forget it for now.

I would imaging the period of waiting post injection 1 and pre injection 2 might be exciting though.

its the injections that i'm dubious about, i'm always keen to get that over and done with asap.

once thats done, i go into another place in my head.
i guess 5 years of braces and having 4 healthy molars being yanked out of my mouth placated me a bit.

therefore they will need to cut the gum open to reveal more tooth to be gripped.
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Ouch! Never used to be scared of them til I was 16 when the FEMALE dentist pulled out two teeth leaving massive gaps, having to put those swabs in the gaps to stop the bleeding.
She was suppose to stitch them up but failed and 4 hours later I was still bleeding like fuck. I went back, luckily they were still open(it was a Friday evening) and the MALE dentist sorted it out....

Dent ist

I was so brave when I had root canal treatment the other week that my dentist gave me a lolly*... I fucking hate going to the dentist... :[

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if anyone's looking for a good NHS dentist I can heartily recommend a guy called Chris in Camberwell. His place is just on the left if you're heading away from the green towards Walworth Road, has a white sign with black writing just saying Dentist(or Dental, can't remember) Surgery. He's very good for nervous patients (I'm not but he was recommended to me as such and I can see why). Very good at painless injections, must have a steady hand or something because although it's never really been too much of a problem before it still stung a bit but with hi I hardly felt a thing, honestly. He's also a very cheery chubby chap which made me feel even more at ease. Also, he will always try and put you in the lower band of payment but without doing cheap crap work. He uses most of his own sterilised kit instead of the usual duff NHS disposable stuff.

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I would imaging the period of waiting post injection 1 and pre injection 2 might be exciting though.

I remember this from when I had my wisdom teeth out. You dribble everywhere and there is not a damn thing in hell you can do about it, which makes it weirdly funny, but laughing makes it worse because you expand your cheeks and open the way for even more mouth juice, which just seems to keep coming from a tap in the back of your throat somewhere.

My advice is wear a shirt you don't like very much.

Bonza, an added helping of indignity to go with the pain.

I shall wear a kitchen towel as a cravat.

I'm sure you can buy an adult sized bib

Don't stress it, its not going to hurt at all, the anaesthetic they use is pretty damn good, i've had so many operations/injections/treatment over the years i've lost count to be honest......although that could be something to do with the 5-6 concussions i've had over the years!

Right, one tooth reconstructed, two removed.

Sitting here with a wad of gauze jammed betweenmy teeth over the new holes in my gum.

Also got a letter today cc'd to me- it was a letter from Guy's to my local health authority.

It states why Guy's believe that implants are needed, and asks for funding.

Fingers crossed- otherwise it's one of Fiddy's bikes at retail for the work.