Dental experiences.

[Alexia_Ashford]

I have two teeth missing because apparently I had no adult canine teeth and they insisted on pulling the milk teeth out and one adult tooth. I had to have two injections in my top gums in the front, and one injection in the roof of my mouth, and I just remember sitting there with some guy yanking at my teeth trying to pull them out, spitting blood into a cup and then feeling like I had rubber strapped to my mouth (which was actually my lower lip but I couldn't feel a thing).

My dad's had a few nastier experiences. He had a molar taken out but the dentist wasn't very good and ended up cutting all around his gums and he had flesh hanging everywhere and blood going everywhere. Another time he had a nerve extracted from his tooth, and the tooth grew so brittle that it cracked, and when he had it removed, it couldn't be removed fully so they had to keep cracking away at the tooth.

You won't get any noise. With pulling teeth out, they just pull at the tooth till it comes out. They don't drill or anything.

[Harry Mason]

I had a real problem when my wisdom teeth came in one of them was going into my molar at a 45 degree angle and needless to say I had to go to the dentist and to my surprise the pain caused by the pressure was greater than the dentist using something like pliers to rip it out..it was such a relief I shook his hand and thanked him and went home and passed out.

[Mr. Spencer]

Yeah, I'm booked in for an hour but that's namely because the sedation takes a while to recover from. To be honest, I am looking forward to it. Never had amnesia before, so it'll be an interesting experience. I don't think the extraction itself will take five minutes, I'm expecting noise and pressure but that's about it.

[Bertha]

The only thing I've ever had aside from cleanings is a filling for a cavity, and I got that back when I was in early grade school. Hope your surgery goes well too. You'll most likely be out of it for a while.

[Mr. Spencer]

Quite a few of you on here will be unfortunately more than aware of my constant questioning in regards to this, but for those not in the know - and I hope this doesn't come across as self-centred - I'll be having dental surgery performed tomorrow. As such, I'd like to create a topic about our experiences with the dentist. Since a child, I've been terrified of dental surgery. I had a back tooth extracted which was unpleasant, but painless. Though a front tooth that required capping was a lot more uncomfortable, namely because I felt the needle go into my upper gums. Something which I attribute to the dentist not using enough topical anaesthetic. As a result, I've been petrified of dental surgery ever since, to the point where I wouldn't even visit the dentist anymore.

For a year now, I've been suffering with an infected tooth - a back molar that's pretty badly decayed. To the point where I'm hardly going out, I'm keeping inside and taking strong painkillers. Codeine for a year is not a very good idea, so the time has finally come to get it fixed - and I hope it stops the pain I've been having in my jaw and stomach. Tomorrow I'll be going in and having it extracted, though due to my phobia I was given a specialist oral surgeon who is trained in sedation. Hence, I'll be under a conscious sedation. Awake, but too drugged up to care about what the dentist does. This'll be used in conjunction with a local anaesthetic, which if they use enough numbing gem, shouldn't hurt at all. It's funny, to the dentist this is probably a day's work, but for me it's like climbing a mountain. Yeah, I'm a pussy when it comes to dentists. It isn't like I'm having any major surgery done or a wisdom tooth removed, but it's still very unpleasant.

I'll be sure to see if I can keep the tooth as a memento, or a sticker book. Who cares if I'm 22, I want a sticker. I'm also going to see how many times I can squeeze in the phrase, "That's what she said" when I'm having the surgery done.

So, does anyone have an interesting stories to share of their experiences?