I have to go to the DENTIST today. HELP ME!

[sch00lteacher]

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At 1:30 EST this afternoon I have a dentist appointment to have a tooth pulled. I don't want to go!

I only go to see those evil people when I am in pain. That used to be the story. Now that I have two new steel hips I have to go any time I have a tooth infection. I had one go bad on me last week. So.... They are pumping me full of penicillin before hand.

If you have steel body parts, infection does nasty things to the surrounding areas. You body naturally fights off infections. It sees steel parts as not belonging, and attacks the surrounding areas. Joy.

None of that matters, just seeing that chair...

http://www.estradadental.com/cgif/op-b.jpg

Sends shivers up and down my spine. And then the needles!

http://www.gumshield.com/history/novocain1-1.JPG

Has anyone else heard that crunch when they pull your tooth? Ewwwwwwww.

http://www.ropesend.com/ropesend_cartoons/cartoons/tooth_pull.jpeg

I'd rather do just about anything than go to the dentist. I hate 'em, I hate 'em, I hate 'em.

So today, around 1:30, spare me a thought. And to think, I have to drive myself there. I am going to take myself to the pain place... Am I nuts or what?

 

[Arc da Rat]

Nah ... yer not nuts ...

I myself really don't like needles ... I always cringe when they do the novacane ... If being awake when they pull the tooth out bothers you this bad ... ask if they can knock you out when they pull it ... I know of people that will only have done this way ...

 

[cymbidia]

Ooooooh!
Needles...
Dentists visits...

Such things send the blood pounding hard though the veins of any self-respecting masochist!

 

[APhil]

Don't worry about it, teach.

It's a bit of pain, yes, but it's for the greater good.

Do you really want the obit to read "death by tooth infection"?

 

[sch00lteacher]

Ooooooh!
Needles...
Dentists visits...

Such things send the blood pounding hard though the veins of any self-respecting masochist!

What was that,

http://www.stomptokyo.com/img-m2/little-shop-b.jpg

Yeah, Little Shop of Horrors. Not my thing really. Any pain I do like is below the waste level.

 

[sch00lteacher]

Don't worry about it, teach.

It's a bit of pain, yes, but it's for the greater good.

Do you really want the obit to read "death by tooth infection"?

I'd feel like Jim Henson.

Actually it probably wouldn't kill me. But from what the doctor told me I might want to be dead. They would have to take out the implant for about six months. Six months in bed with no hip-joint at all. Then you have to pray the bone heals. I don't want to play that game. So I am going....

 

[sch00lteacher]

It has to be the novocain shots that hurt the most. God I hate those. I wouldn't want a tooth pulled with out them, but I wish there was another way. Plus the bastard got my tongue, he was in too much of a rush.

That sucker didn't want to come out. He was shaking my head all over the place, then *crunch* out it came. I thought he broke it.

Hurts like hell this morning. I'd be taking bou cou pain pills if I didn't have a doctor's appointment to go to this morning.

I'll survive. I know a few of you care.

cymbidia, you would have loved it. It had it all, sight, sound, pain, taste of blood. Yes sir!

 

[Bindii]

Ouch I hate dentists...but think of it as being the better or two evils Schoolteacher.

The needles aren't that bad, in fact I find it one of the easiest things to deal with at the dentist, but then again my dentist is rather cute so admising the view takes my mind of the pain.....

 

[Weird Harold]

Ouch I hate dentists...

but then again my dentist is rather cute so admising the view takes my mind of the pain.....

Got this in a "cartoon-a-day" e-mail the other day.

(it say Gynocologist, but it would work just as well if it were a Dentist's office.)

 

[sch00lteacher]

No Bindii, the needles, can't stand them. It is all mental I know.

The worst pain I have ever had in my life (I have been shot, stabbed twice, damn near blown up, roasted, assualted...) was a shot I once got at the dentist. It was one where he goes straight up through the roof of your mouth, towards the middle of your soft palate. This was a long time ago, more than 25 years. I haven't forgotten it. It is the only time a doctor or dentist has made me cry.

Tears of pain. Make sure we are clear on that.

That was all it took to make me phobic. I hate needles any where around my mouth.

 

[sch00lteacher]

Great! Thanks for the laugh Weird Harold. I need more of those today.

 

[Weird Harold]

It was one where he goes straight up through the roof of your mouth, towards the middle of your soft palate. This was a long time ago, more than 25 years.

Thanks for the memory -- NOT!

Mine was about 30 years ago, and I can still hear the squeek and crunch as my head imploded.

Thank GOD that's all behind me. When you have no teeth, you get no shots.

 

[Jimi]

Teach, I think the dentist is the most invasive, sanctimonious, rip-off artist that society has invented.

Most of these guys own slums, drive Porsches and diddle their patients while sedated.

However, I fink I would raffer put up with the muffahs than fee alternative... no teef

 

[Bidin~Time]

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So today, around 1:30, spare me a thought. And to think, I have to drive myself there. I am going to take myself to the pain place... Am I nuts or what?

** hands the teacher 2 shots of whiskey and 4 valium**

take these and you won't care if they do the rumba in your mouth.

It worked for me last week.



emi

 

[dean99r]

Hmmmm, just thinking about what has been said in this thread makes me wonder if anything worthwhile is being accomplished. I've been rescued several times from nasty tooth situations by my dentist who saw me on weekends at very inconvenient (for him times) and has always been a nice and gentle person.
Hooray for the good ones out there.

Having said that, I love my hygienist too. She has great boobs and snuggles them in close when she cleans my teeth. I can't go get my teeth cleaned often enough.