DentistsMy current dentist is called Mr Stiff.
Back when I was at university though, I had enormous pain in my jaw one morning - so bad I went as an emergency case to the uni dentist.
He took one look at the back of my mouth and said, "Ah, wisdom teeth. Impacted. They'll have to come out."
He then reached under the chair and came out with an enormous industrial (and entirely non-dental) pair of pliers, "I can do it now if you want..."
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chthonic, Thu 2 Nov 2006, 14:31)
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which way round?i went in to have my bottom left wisdom tooth out and before the dentist started, he got out the x-ray of my whole mouth - one of the big smiley shaped ones. he pointed out that the one on the right was growing at a dodgy angle and IF i needed that one out it would probably be a bit awkward and probably a lot more painful (as he might need to remove a bit of my jaw bone!) than the nice, straight one i was having out that day.
"ah! how painful can it be?", thought i.
anyway, i lay back in the chair, he injected the anaesthetic and we were under way. after about 5 minutes of delving around and slicing of gums, he paused, gave a 'huh?' kind of sound and moved over to his desk. i glanced over to see him carefully peel off the sticker on my x-ray, turn it over and stick it on the other side! he'd only been looking at the x-ray the wrong way round and therefore at the wrong fricking tooth and i was actually having the awkward one taken out.
fucksocks
what happened in the next hour can only be described as the single most painful experience of my life as he prodded, probed and drilled the wonky tooth to buggery. in the end he had to 'saw' it into slices and remove the pieces one by one.
i spent the afternoon in shock, lying in bed crying, with my mum patting my head saying "there there"
(, Fri 3 Nov 2006, 16:33, Reply)
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