I should probably add "teeth" to my interests

[sistermagpie]

Happy birthday ginzai!!! I wish you a little stalker Tim Drake of your own just for the day.:-D

I went to the dentist today to get a filling. Instead, the dentist told me I needed two. Then told me to make an appointment (3 months from now) to get the fillings. And to buy yet another rinsing thing.

I've had tooth problems all my life. This is the first dentist I've ever known who didn't fill cavities when s/he found them. The receptionists' prime directive seems to be to keep people from getting their teeth fixed as long as possible.

Note to self: Find new dentist in dental plan tomorrow. Be sure to make sure new dentist fills teeth.

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[arclevel.livejournal.com]

The family dentist when I was a kid would always have you stay longer and fill the teeth. Then my parents decided he wasn't doing a good job, so we switched to a larger practice where, among other things, you had to schedule a new appt for fillings; generally your first option was in about a week. When I was getting my teeth cleaned while home from college, which was a 10-hour drive, this meant that I generally went ridiculously long to get them filled. Not that I really minded. Every time that dentist filled a tooth, it never hurt before he filled it but hurt to chew on for weeks afterward. Needless to say, I don't go there anymore.

[millefiori.livejournal.com]

it never hurt before he filled it but hurt to chew on for weeks afterward.

I have this problem, too -- my dentist says it's because the numbing shots, drilling and filling irritates the nerve and it takes a while for it to settle down. It happens every time I get a filling. :/

I'm curious, did yours stop when you changed dentists? This has happened to me with two different dentists.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That must be awful to deal with!

[arclevel.livejournal.com]

I've only had teeth filled once since then, though he did two. Both felt fine very soon after they were filled, but one of them started hurting a week or two later. I thought the filling had broken or fallen out, but the next time I was there (quite some time later; I was too cheap to make an extra appointment unless I had to), they looked and said it was fine, and as it had stopped hurting by that point, I dropped it. In terms of the immediate aftermath, though, I felt fine.

I hate needles going into my gums. Keep in mind that I give blood and happily watch the needle go in as I chat with the nurses, and in general I have a pretty high pain tolerance. I can't handle needles in my gums, though. The last dentist -- the one who always seemed to make things worse -- offered to use a little gas so the needles didn't hurt, but then use Novacaine as the main anesthetic. I liked that system, but now I have to wonder if it was related to the way I always hurt afterwards.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid they always seemed to do everything right away. Sometimes I would have a toothache before I went, other times not. Once when I was little I seriously injured myself chewing on my tongue before the novacaine wore off. Oops.

It would drive me crazy if it hurt to chew on it afterwards-that's awful!

[arclevel.livejournal.com]

Once when I was little I seriously injured myself chewing on my tongue before the novacaine wore off

Yow! My biggest numbness-related problem was right after I had my wisdom teeth removed, so I was *very* numb, and through much of my face. Mom was advised to get me a Frosty so I could eat *something,* so we stopped by Wendy's on the way home. I was eating by getting a spoonful, pointing it into my mouth, and turning over the spoon. So I thought. Mom realized after a while that I was missing my mouth with nearly every spoonful and thus very slowly pouring the Frosty down my front. Messy, but at least not painful.