Byebye Mr Tooth

[Tom]

Well its been a great relationship but after 20-odd years, Mr Tooth at the back of my mouth started being a pain a couple of weeks ago. So painful in fact that I had to visit the local tooth councilling service, Mr Dentist.

I was expecting him to patch it up, but no such luck - "Oooo, thats a big hole. Right it'll have to come out"

"Bugger. Can you replace it with anything?"

"Yes, you need to see a specialist and it will be around £2500"

"Oh right then, that can wait...."

Cue 1 hour - yes 1 hour - of cutting, drilling, grinding, pulling, pushing, until the little sod finally came free. He spent 10 minutes trying to remove it before deciding that it had to be cut in half while still in there so he could remove each root separately. Not nice.

Anyhow I now have a gaping hole at the back of my jaw from which blood is slowly oozing, my fat cheek and tongue are tingling as the sensation slowly returns, and I have a pile of various pills to ingest daily until the wound has healed.

Fucksocks. Anyone had work done to replace missing teeth?

 

[haarewin]

my dad did.
saying "it wont be fun" is an understatement.

 

[throdgrain]

One time I had a tooth out the dentist broke it off flush , so got a scalpal and cut the rest out. Was a lot of fun I can tell you !
Not half as hideous as a root canal job I had dome recently, that was like giggle-a-rama !

 

[Trem]

you aren't a man until you've had root canal done.

It made me have this fear of dentists I now have, I need 2 teeth out and its been this way for 4 years, just can't bring myself to sit in a chair and let someone do that to me.

 

[DaGaffer]

I had a crown put in a few years ago; that took a few hours, but wasn't particularly painful. Unfortunately I then got an abcess underneath the crown and had to have a root canal; drilled through the crown. It took nearly four hours! Once again, it wasn't particularly painful, (less painful than the abcess itself anyway) but it was extremely tedious. It also cost a bloody fortune, which is why I now pay over the odds for dental insurance and go for checkups three times a year.

 

[Tom]

Fuck that. Anything like that and I'm insisting on general anaesthetic!

 

[Gray]

Im scared of Dentists, shit scared.

No fucker is coming at me with a needle anymore in my mouth, not after last time

 

[Raven]

i had all four wissom teeth out a few years ago, had it under general, they dislocated my jaw while doing it i am sure, could close my mouth properly for ages. was in the pub the next day so not as bad as it sounds

 

[Chilly]

I find the needle is normally the worst bit. At leas the big fuck off one my dentist uses, and he used to be a fucking priest, dunno what you poor NHS sods have to put up with

 

[lilmissnaughty]

well if u dont use the nhs it will go summit like this:

you walk into dentist surgery.

you: 'i need a replacement tooth'
dentist: 'oh goody'

the dentists eyes turn into pound signs and he starts leafing thro brochures for a new swimming pool.

 

[Chilly]

me: "gets cheque book out and goes for the solid gold option"

 

[Clown]

Doesn't even hurt. Stop being such pussies.

 

[lilmissnaughty]

lol tbh going private can cost a bit but the service is so much better.
my sis teeth got totally fucked up when she saw nhs dentists while we were kids.luckily they were just her 'baby teeth' but it ended with her having to go under anaesthetic to have 3 in a row removed. it was at guys hospital in london which i think they use for training newbs

 

[old.Tohtori]

Aye, my teeth look like a proper battlezone (youth, stupid, arrogance), but i've decided that i'll bite, as well as i can, the bullet and go see the dent-gent.

Hell, i decided to take it as CIA training on interrigation

 

[Gog]

This is going to sound really weird Tom, but when you decide that you've had enough of the dull ache from the extraction (and you will after a day or so believe me), put a freshly used (but cooled) teabag in the gap.
It tastes absolutely foul, but it does numb the area for a while.
The dental nurse at my practice recommended it to me when I had an extraction about 7 years ago and I initially thought it was bollocks, but I gave it a go and it did work. She said they use tealeaves in India as a mild anaesthetic, so it must be some chemical in tea itself I guess.

 

[tris-]

i had root canal surgery. it started in cyprus, then one year later finally finished back home.

i have to say the treatment there was fantastic. the treatment here was so so really. im not longer scared of any dental procedure after that bollocks.
dont think the dentist could be arsed to crown it, so she put a massive amalgam filling all over the tooth.

a cup of mercury poisoning, anyone?

 

[taB]

I'd sort of agree with Gog, but doesn't necessarily need Teabags! Try a bottle of very young tannic red wine (i.e. a good Bordeaux '03) - taste odd as feck but it'll have the same stuff + alcohol

Ben.

N.B. I am not a doctor, dentist, or any other kind of health professional. I sell wine for a living and as such have a vested interest in talking crap about my favourite subject.

 

[Tom]

I'm on antibiotics for a week, so no grog for me