Dental Hell

[Fred H.]

Laurel, what hurts more the tooth or having to listen to shutup or what ever his name is?

For a tooth that blows up try putting ice on it. Ice will work better than anything short of Novicane and a root canal.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I broke off my first two adult teeth......

My two front teeth - at age 12 - skateboarding on my stomach (face down of course) SMACK! BREAK! PAIN!

Not something a 12 year old boy wants to fully realize - "Yes dear, those are you permenant teeth and they are now gone forever."

I also had to have braces, retainers the whole bit - pardon that pun. Bit - get it?

Then while 19 in the Corps - I got in a fight and to make a long story short - I had to bite a guy to save my own life - when I bit him he jerked away in pain so swiftly that all my lower teeth broke off. OUCH!

I take pretty good care of my teeth but me thinks I have the Irish English curse of fucking bad teeth. You should see it when a new dentist looks into my mouth - it's like "What the fuck?"

And to cap it all off - pardon that stupid pun - I'd like to have the whole mouth redone in today's modern way. But the cost, not picked up via most/my dental plan because it's cosmetic - would cost me well over 6G's.

Fuck!

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

One of Buddha's four great truths is "life is suffering", and anyone who works in one of the healthcare profession can vouch for that. I lost a filling the weekend before my first medical school exam, exposing the nerves to the stimulation of air, heat, and cold. I studied almost non-stop despite the pain. It was one of the most miserable times of my life, but I did well on the exam and it actually helped me learn the innervation of the maxilla and mandible very well. Nothing like learning from your own pain.

The nerves in your teeth are the most sensitive to pain your body largely because they're fixed in place within dentin allowing the slightest stimulation to trigger them. The only brain neurological pathways that nerve fibers from your teeth enter are those involving pain. If those nerves are stimulated at all they scream out loud to your brain.

Hope you're feeling better, Laurel. If you're not, though, you're gonna have to start kissing my ass too. Don't forget who has the painkillers.

 

[E.NonnyMuse]

Once had an impacted wisdom tooth removed and was in bed for a week. He chiseled it into four pieces to get it out. I now have a 9-10 mm pocket behind the molar that was in front of it. My rinky dink dental plan only covers half for periodontal, so can't afford the graft to fix it. Four crowns and three root canals so far. Worst pain I ever had was an infected root of an upper bicuspid. Only relief was to hold and ice cube to the roof of my mouth. The codeine I took until I could get in the next day and have it opened and drained just made me nauseous(high drug tolerance).

Hope you're better soon.

 

[Busty]

Can sympathize with you - 5 years ago I had to have a double root canal done because they couldn't tell which tooth was giving me the problem. The whole area hurt so the decision was made to do both. Four hours in the chair and countless needles (I'm allergic to the regular ones so they have to give me the freezing they use on heart patients - it doesn't last as long) and I left his office with an icepack and a cheek that looked like a chipmunks. It is a day etched in my memory forever - 4 hours after I left his office my father died. I went to the funeral the next day with a swollen face and a mouth that still ached.

 

[Deborah]

Hope you're feeling better, Laurel.

I don't get all this talk about pain killers. If you have an abcessed tooth, an infected tooth, you should be taking antibiotics. I don't think one person who posted on this thread mentioned that.

I've had two root canals in the past several years and both times I was in incredible pain which began to subside only after the dentist put me on the antibiotics, no matter how many pain killers I took. And even then, he didn't do the root canal until a week later, when the infection had cleared up somewhat.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Deborah]

Yes! I'm stalled on a new dark story where I need some real good torture and pain. Some "dental hell" will work just fine me thinks. Bzzzzzzzz goes the drill. Cringe, cringe. No pain killer for you, bitch, unless ...

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[dancinvixen]

Try Ibuprofin instead of asprin, my dentist said it helps reduce the inflamation and should work better at stopping the pain.

My recent dental experience was getting my leaky root canal taken out (how do those things leak, I say?) and get it preped for a crown then they dug around my mouth and gave me 4 new fillings while they were at it. Thank my lucky stars that my doctor is the end all be all of dentist studs, he does the two handed hand shake while gazing deep in your eyes, (oh yeah baby!) so I'll put up with what ever pain he dishes out. Besides that, he dries my teeth with gauze instead of using that nasty blower thing that makes me flinch.
And as if that's not enough, next month I get all four wisdom teeth cut out! Aren't I the lucky girl! Not only do I get tons of pain, I get to pay them all my fun money, so no shopping for me! The only light I can possibly imagine coming at the end of this tunnel is I am so sick the mere though of food grosses me out for a solid month, and I end up losing 20 lbs! Hey, a girl need her dreams!

Iboprufen is a no no. If she's gonna be seeing an endodontist, who will put her partially to sleep for the root canal, ibuprofen is a really bad idea. See ibuprofen will thin out her blood causing her to bleed more during the root canal.

 

[BlondGirl]

4 suggestions:

1.) Do not take Tylenol. That is for fever or mild pain NOT ASSOCIATED with inflamation. You have swelling and pain-take advil or naproxen.

2.) Get some of the good dental floss. I think it is made by Oral B and comes in a round container--instead of thread, it is some squishy stuff that is stretchy. The beauty of it is that you can rub some numzit into it and then floss with it to rub the numzit directly between the teeth. I still carry that in my back pack!

3.) When you are sitting in your car and are about to go to the dentist, take a dose of benedryll. Do not do it before or later--do it just before leaving home--then drive to the dentist--when you arrive, it will be beginning to taking effect. By the time you are in the chair--it will be in full effect.
A.) It will make you drowsy and relaxed so that you are less nervous and stressed out
and
B.) It dries you out so you don't slobber as much and have to constantly gag on your own spit. It reduces the unbearable need to use the suction which is danged near useless.

4.) Take some lip gloss. Apply it librally throughout the procedure. A waxy chapstick style seems to not rub off as easily as the carmex-petroleum style.

Good luck.

(I got all this down to an art now...can you tell? And yes, my mouth wears more precious metal than my fingers or ears or my neck.)

 

[Guest]

Yeah benadryl and whatever downers the doc's gonna give her. Good fuckin mix. I don't like Laurel either but I'm not trying to kill her. Fucking idiot.

 

[Never]

Shuddup... Remember, any type of nicety is asskissing. You're going to loose your 'I'm a mean Mother' status if you sound like you care.

 

[Adoratrice]

One of Buddha's four great truths is "life is suffering",

I thought it was "pain is unavoidable...suffering is optional"


but anyway...I hate hate hate hate the dentist...thank goodness I have good teeth....but my poor daughter was born with "soft" teeth she has at least 5 cavities each visit and they are starting to chip despite how well she takes care of them. He said her perms should be okay .

 

[Earthmuffin]

Laurel,

Aspirin prior to dental work is not always a good idea. The entire face and mouth are teriffically vascular. Aspirin taken routinely will act as a blood thinner and can contribute to bleeding/bruising with the procedure.

This having been said, what did your dentist recommend for the discomfort? I personally would have told him I wasn't leaving with anything less than a narcotic. I hate facial pain.

My dental nightmare: Broke my jaw on the corner of the 'fridge one night. Knocked me out cold. When I came around I was being loaded by the EMT's. Hospital says I'm fine, went home with blinding headache and a large-ish bruise. The next a.m. get a call from the radiologist, the jaw is broken, needs repaired.

Got that done the next day by a man who left bigger bruises on my face than the 'fridge did. I got home and as the last of the fog lifted I had two sudden realizations. #1 no pain meds were given for at home. #2. How was I supposed to brush my teeth for the next 6 weeks? The dr. who'd done the surgery had gone home for the day, his office suggested I try drinking some children's Tylenol. (Not terribly effective) and put wax on the wires if they irritated the gumline. Oh yeah, don't worry they'd clean my teeth in 6 weeks. I found a way around the toothbrushing, but I was hating it for pain for days. I used too much Nyquil just so's I could sleep.

I was unavoidably detained in another state when it was time for my jaw to be unwired. Had to go nearly 3 weeks over...by then the gumline had grown over the wires. Again the Dr. didn't want to use anything for pain. After I grabbed his wrist and threatened to break it he gave me some novocaine and a script for 2 day's worth of Tylox.

Good luck with the tooth. Don't forget to get your script BEFORE the procedure.

 

[Sammyjo]

Well, Laurel...I hope you are feeling better. I just found out today that I need to have 3 wisdom teeth pulled out...preferably before June. *sigh*

Aside from practically drooling on the dentist (ummm...yes, he's that hot) everything else went fairly well for someone who hasn't been to the dentist in years.

He was so gentle with my teeth

That hygenist is the bitch from hell!!!