Dental work

[canadiancutie]

My dentist is 28, beautiful, french first language, and a hockey player haha (a dentist that plays hockey. oi vay. makes me happy) so I'm really looking forward to my appointment on the 13th

 

[sigsauerprinces]

all through my teens and early twenties i was fine with the dentist. shoot me up with a little novacaine, give me al ittle nitrous, and im good to go. then i went to a bad dentist. a dentist who fucked up some of my teeth AND lied to me AND hurt me. i asked for nitrous to have one of my wisdom teeth removed and he said ok fine. on the day, i got there, got allr eady, am in the chair, hes ready to go, he pulls up the bottle and says "oh damn, its empty...sorry". if i could have walked out, i would have, but it waas the last day of the inusrance i had, and if i didnt get it done then, i wouldnt have been able to. since then ive been afraid of dentists.

then, a few years ago, i became allergic to stimulants, and because of that i cant have novacaine, because they put epinephrine in novacaine to make it work better. the dr told me that without the epineprhine in it it wont work well at all. so the last time i had dental worked, i was put under a general. i was scared a bit, but one minute i was laying there with a needle in my arm, the next, i woke up. best way to do dental work IMO if you have the money (and i know general isnt cheap) i highly recommend it..specially for ppl who are scared of the dentist. i cant go to the dentist any other way now.

 

[jasonlf]

then, a few years ago, i became allergic to stimulants, and because of that i cant have novacaine, because they put epinephrine in novacaine to make it work better. the dr told me that without the epineprhine in it it wont work well at all. so the last time i had dental worked, i was put under a general. i was scared a bit, but one minute i was laying there with a needle in my arm, the next, i woke up. best way to do dental work IMO if you have the money (and i know general isnt cheap) i highly recommend it..specially for ppl who are scared of the dentist. i cant go to the dentist any other way now.

Heh, wonder if insurance covers that, that's awesome.

 

[chris9]

Heh, wonder if insurance covers that, that's awesome.

Except for some of the risks involved... (My bf is planning on becoming an anathesist (sp? difficult word) so I hear a lot about things that go wrong...)

 

[FurryFury]

Which is why "being put to sleep" scares the crap out of me. Well that and the fact that when they tried to do it to my Dad he was never the same and died within the week.

Fury

 

[Netzach]

They have this halfway-out crap now, that was the best, I think it might be versed?

one moment I'm saying hoe good the gas is the next I'm sleeping in recovery, but I was, according to M who was there, never totally out.

 

[graceanne]

In Oregon their's a doctor that advertises himself as the 'snooze' doctor. He's specifically for people who are scared of the dentist. He always puts people down. I think he's also an anesthesioligist. Unfortunately I don't know of any dental insurances around here that cover him, and he's spendy.

 

[sigsauerprinces]

yeah mine was spendy too but i'm in the position of not having a choice, because i cant have novacaine anymore. to be honest tho, its worth the money to me, not to be sitting in the chair absolutely terrified of being hurt.

 

[Killishandra]

yeah mine was spendy too but i'm in the position of not having a choice, because i cant have novacaine anymore. to be honest tho, its worth the money to me, not to be sitting in the chair absolutely terrified of being hurt.

SSG, how is it that you have a custom user title and yet only 409 posts? I was starting at your av/headline/location/post area trying to figure out what looked wrong to me and then I noticed. lol

 

[Jay Davis]

SSG, how is it that you have a custom user title and yet only 409 posts? I was starting at your av/headline/location/post area trying to figure out what looked wrong to me and then I noticed. lol

OK, I'll bite...how many posts SHOULD it take to get a custom user title?

 

[sigsauerprinces]

SSG, how is it that you have a custom user title and yet only 409 posts? I was starting at your av/headline/location/post area trying to figure out what looked wrong to me and then I noticed. lol

hmm... you know what? i dont remember :/ its been a long time since i posted here regularly. i think youre sposed to have a thousand before you can have a custom user title, right? i vaguely remember joking with someone about being able to have a custom user title before my thousand posts, but i dont remember if that priveledge was ever granted to me. sorry, i know thats not much of an answer.. i honestly dont quite remember how i got it

 

[Jay Davis]

1000 was my guess. I suppose I better go respond to the BDSM Word Association thread a couple dozen more times today!

 

[Etoile]

You get a custom title at 1000 posts, but moderators have them no matter how many posts they have.

 

[Bandit58]

Hi Etoile!

You are such a lovely lady!

I have a lot to say on this subject. Okay, I loved Little Shop of Horrors! I love Steve Martin!

I don't love dentists. In fact I'm rather phobic about them. They are one of the few doctors I see every six months or so though.

When I was a kid. Our dentist decided to pull permanent teeth rather than do braces. Honestly with the slight TMJ that I have, braces would have been the better way to go. Pulling eight permanent teeth is not fun. That is where I developed my phobia, I think.

I was "good" and "patient" at first cause my Mom said we could go to the five and dime store to buy something if I was. I loved that. I would get a Kiddle or Barbie or some such. By the time we got to about the sixth tooth I was over the dime store and being good thing though. Each pulling was a different visit. So tons of time to dread and think about the next one was built in.

Several dentists have told me I have a very high pain threshold. Such statements, along with the events that brought their observations about, usually result in me no longer seeing them!!! Some of the worst pain I've ever had has been tooth pain and/or with a Dentist.

This month I have to get a crown because I cracked a tooth from subconscious stress grinding. Not only will it be a high out of pocket expense but it will probably hurt a great deal. It's waaaay in the back you see. The last time I needed work way in the back, they shot me with Novocain about nine times, pausing each time to see if it worked. It didn't. I looked at my watch and said, "Listen I'm out of time. Just drill it already. I need to get home." Ouch! Seriously I had to get home and I didn't want to have to come back.

So I've warned this newer dentist and his crew about all this and hopefully they will at least give me some gas or something.

Gas does nothing for the pain. It just makes me not care nearly as much. I can't literally write entire movie scripts about their nose hair while they work. If only I had a brain to computer interface to get those words out before they dissipated like smoke from a snuffed candle. Ah well, maybe someday.

I wish my FIL had never retired. He was a dentist. He never hurt me. I think he should at least have kept a chair in his basement just for me! It's funny too because I was terrified to start seeing him when I first hooked up with my husband.

I figured he tell my husband to go find a girl with fewer fillings and no TMJ. "No, son, she is not the right girl for you!" Nope, they love me.

They think I "changed" their son for the better. Ha! He was the best all along. They just couldn't see it. I've always loved people as they are and not tried to change them.

*smiles*

(Unless you count making him more kinky but they don't know about that. *grins*)

Fury

I had several molars out when I was a child, to make room for all the teeth (I have a small jaw). Waking up after the gas, which I hated (not sure whether it was the mask over my face or the smell), drooling blood and feeling sick, made me afraid of the dentist for the rest of my life. I have even had panic attacks in the chair a couple of times.

I went to the dentist here in Australia for the first time 6 months ago (it had been over 2 years since I'd been, couldn't afford it). I was told I needed crowns on 2 of my back teeth, top and bottom, on the right side. The filling there on top had a history of cracking and even falling out and had been replaced several times. It was cracked again So I opted for a gold crown and he knocked 25% off the price (cos I told him I was on welfare). To my surprise it was nowhere near as bad as getting a filling had been - either I lucked out in finding a great dentist or I'd been making mountains out of molehills! I'm due to go back in a few weeks to get the second one done and I don't think I'll be quite as nervous this time

Master has a real phobia of dentists. He had toothache late last year and kept putting off going until He was in extreme pain and had a bad abscess. It was 3 days before He could get in, because of His medical conditions He had to get the ok from his doctor and get high dose of antibiotics before they would touch Him

The pic was taken that night

 

[mslv4Her]

I have a theory...tops who care about their subs become Dom/mes; the ones who just like to inflict pain become dentists.

...or dental hygenists.....i swear sometimes i think they like watching me squirm....

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I had no problem with dentists until I was, I believe, 7 or 8 years old. Checkups, a couple of fillings, cleanings - no problem. Then I went to an Army dentist. Son of a bitch was drilling on a tooth that needed a filling, slipped off the tooth and ran the damn drill into my tongue.

Response? "Oops!" and immediately back to drilling, as my bleeding tongue filled my mouth with blood. When I started to gag from the blood, he just added another suction tube to suck the blood out and finished the drilling before he put a stitch in my tongue to stop the bleeding! I had dentist nightmares for years afterward, and still have them about once a year or so.

Since then, I cannot stand the sound of a dentist's drill - even for cleaning. The scene mentioned from "Marathon Man?" I had to walk out of the theater and not come back until that scene was over. I used to take 20mg of valium to go to the dentist, and then, if the drill had to be turned on, another 10mg. Tried nitrous, nitrous plus headphones with loud classical music, nitrous plus music plus tranquilizers - no good. As soon as the drill touched a tooth, the sound was transmitted (bone conduction) and audible and I'd freak.

Then I discovered general anesthesia for dentistry, and willingly paid the extra for it (over insurance) if a drill needed to be run.

Unfortunately, as I found out some years ago, the enamel on my teeth is very thin - one dentist accused me of "over-brushing" my teeth to the point I'd worn the enamel off. When I told him no, only 2-3 times a day, 2-3 minutes a brushing, he said he'd seldom seen enamel so thin and weak. <Sigh> Result? Easy cavities (I've had 'em all my life, even when on extremely healthy feeding habits) that grow quickly.

A dentist a few years ago was pulling a tooth that was beyond salvage - new cavity let the old filling fall out - <sigh again>, and it simply shattered under his forceps (or whatever he was using to pull on it). He, too, commented on the weakness of my teeth. By that time, I was used to the idea, and told him about breaking two teeth simply by biting on a Bic pen.

I'm resigned to the idea of having to get "falsies" soon - if I can get VA to pay for them, since I'm now currently unemployed and barely surviving financially. I'm hoping to get on Medicaid or something here in TN soon - maybe that will help. Then if I can just find a dentist who will accept those payments and put me to sleep for the procedures, I'll be in great shape.

Bleah!

 

[Etoile]

Okay, Sir Winston, that is officially the most horrifying thing I have ever heard with regard to dentistry. I really cannot imagine something worse than the dentist hitting your tongue with the drill. I'm going to have nightmares! Yes indeed, thank goodness for general anesthesia...

 

[FurryFury]

My dental hygienist knows to not use anything that sounds like a drill while cleaning my teeth. Doing that is now normal procedure for most people. *shivers*

Sir Winston that is a horrible story! I feel for you! Yikes!

Fury

 

[DVS]

I've got my own horror stories about teeth, but when I posted it, I had over 2,000 words! I decided not to post it, because it was just too much. See, I saved all of you from it. Aren't I nice? <=== See, my teeth are fine, now.

 

[FurryFury]

Ouch!

The whole left side of my face hurts.

My dentist acts like he wants to be nice but ouch!

Fury