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You knew I'd have to update on this ongoing saga.
Went for my root canal today, and it seems like they got most of it done. Next month I go back to the regular dentist to get two fillings done, then the week after that I go back to this dentist to have this root canal tooth sealed--and see if I need another one.>:-0 Yeah, let's hope I don't need another one. I was not aware there was a chance I would need two.
It's been a while since I've had one of these--since before dental dams. They just make everything more uncomfortable. A big piece of green rubbery plastic stuck in your mouth along with fingers, suction tubes and drills. Also, there's something really funny about a dentist who sticks all that in your mouth and then says, "Do you have insurance? What kind?" Amazingly, she seemed to understand me when I told her. This must be something they study in dental school, how to understand people with stuff in their mouths.
I have antibiotics and painkillers--or will when I go back to pick up the prescription. I met my roommate in the drugstore getting lightbulbs (all our lightbulbs blew out this morning at once) and I'm such a ridiculous clown I couldn't wait to try to talk to her to hear how awful I sounded. At least I know she appreciates it--she got all giggly and said I sounded like Kramer from Seinfeld in the episode where he's mistaken for mentally challenged. My roomate is one of those people who hasmade a pact with the devil never had anything done to her teeth so she finds all my adventures in numbness fascinating. Novacaine can be funny but half my face is asleep and I feel like somebody slipped me a ten tonne toffee.
Also I'm really hungry but really can't eat yet. I have a feeling when this numbness wears off my jaw is really going to hurt because I don't seem to be able to open my mouth. I still smell dental, too, which is unpleasant. Metallic and powdery. Ew.
p.s. I have a headache.
Went for my root canal today, and it seems like they got most of it done. Next month I go back to the regular dentist to get two fillings done, then the week after that I go back to this dentist to have this root canal tooth sealed--and see if I need another one.>:-0 Yeah, let's hope I don't need another one. I was not aware there was a chance I would need two.
It's been a while since I've had one of these--since before dental dams. They just make everything more uncomfortable. A big piece of green rubbery plastic stuck in your mouth along with fingers, suction tubes and drills. Also, there's something really funny about a dentist who sticks all that in your mouth and then says, "Do you have insurance? What kind?" Amazingly, she seemed to understand me when I told her. This must be something they study in dental school, how to understand people with stuff in their mouths.
I have antibiotics and painkillers--or will when I go back to pick up the prescription. I met my roommate in the drugstore getting lightbulbs (all our lightbulbs blew out this morning at once) and I'm such a ridiculous clown I couldn't wait to try to talk to her to hear how awful I sounded. At least I know she appreciates it--she got all giggly and said I sounded like Kramer from Seinfeld in the episode where he's mistaken for mentally challenged. My roomate is one of those people who has
Also I'm really hungry but really can't eat yet. I have a feeling when this numbness wears off my jaw is really going to hurt because I don't seem to be able to open my mouth. I still smell dental, too, which is unpleasant. Metallic and powdery. Ew.
p.s. I have a headache.
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The facial twisting is a real unfortunate side effect. And the drooling. That's bad too...
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I must have the messiest teeth in this toothy smiled-obsessed nation, partly because where I came from (both Taiwan & New Zealand)people don't seem to care about such things but most importantly because dentists scare the hell out of me. It might sound crazy but I feel I need to get accident insured just for visiting a dentist! *am such coward*
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Still, of all painful procedures I've ever had getting my teeth drilled is the absolute worst for me. I hate it. It's not even that it makes my teeth look good--I just want to be able to chew! (Though apparently I have a cavity in one of my front teeth so that'll be filled too...)
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Is that even possible?
Teeth drilling... yuck! After hearing your countless adventures to the torture room, I believe my respect for you has risen to a new high.
*salute*
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I have horrible teeth-I'm well on the way to having had work done on every single one. And those dentist visits never get any easier. I'm normally resilient about pain-I don't mind needles for instance, but dentists terrify me.
Anyway, feel better. Drugs help.
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My teeth are the same way. Every one of them is worked on--and some of the fillings are so old now they're probably coming out. Yuck.
I have now gotten to where I can move my tongue and feel the tooth though and I'm just glad there's something there. There's literally been a gaping hole in it for the past week.
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has made a pact with the devilnever had anything done to her teeth so she finds all my adventures in numbness fascinating.*giggles*
My first and single filling was when I was 10. :)) So I guess I'm like your roommate, then.
You know, every time I hear about the torture people have to endure by the dentists, I feel that my pact with the devil was worth it. Who cares about souls, when your teeth are all right? ;))
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I got my first dentist appointment when I became seventeen.
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I used to have more troubles with mine when I was younger, though. *Plans to call the devil to make it stay that way*
Also, there's something really funny about a dentist who sticks all that in your mouth and then says, "Do you have insurance? What kind?" Amazingly, she seemed to understand me when I told her. This must be something they study in dental school, how to understand people with stuff in their mouths.
Or maybe it's just that ones they've worked long enough, they've learned how all the possible answers to questions posed to clients sounds like.;-)
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Plus, my dentist is a busty Swedish lass called Ulrika. Going to the dentist ain't a chore.
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My father's got the same teeth as you do, I think. Lucky.
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Anyway. Mind, back away from the gutter. British teeth are pretty dire, really. All my family have poor teeth- fillings, no gaps though. I think it's a case of brushing well as a child, and then after that you don't have to worry so much.
English Teeth, English Teeth!
Shining in the sun
A part of British heritage
Aye, each and every one.
English Teeth, Happy Teeth!
Always having fun
Champing down on bits of fish
And sausages half done.
English Teeth, HEROES' Teeth!
Here them click! and clack!
Let's sing a song of praise to them -
Three Cheers for the Brown Grey and Black.
- Spike Milligan
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and, uh, since the other people are sharing teeth tales, I will confess that I didn't ever use toothpaste when I was a wee kid, because I was convinced it would give me a cold. -_-
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I'm sorry, I need a judges ruling on this. You thought toothpast would give you a cold...?
I now have the most elaborate teeth regimine of my life and of course I keep getting cavities again.
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I am now off to take my amoxicillian like a good girl.
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Oh, and did your eye go numb too? That was the wierdest feeling...
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I'm sure there was a comedy sketch (Monty Python??) where the dentist did understand the patient's grunts and mumbles, but as soon as they took the cotton wadding out and the victim could speak clearly, the dentist kept saying 'pardon? what?'
It was funny at the time, but I guess you had to be there :)
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There's a Saturday Night Live sketch where the people who work in the subway in NYC are revealed to speak just as incoherently as they sound over the loudspeakers. This kind of joke never fails to crack me up.