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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Mmmm, pusLots of unhappy memories about the dentist, plus a couple of amusing ones thanks to the diazipam prescribed for the extreme dentist fear.
The worst memory, however, was of the abcess which developed after a newly fitted crown. Just like the others here who've had the joy of an abcess, half of my face swelled up, almost closing one eye. A visit to the dentist confirmed the need for antibiotics which made a dramatic improvement in the face swelling within hours. The following morning the inside of my mouth felt funny. Looking in the mirror I could see a small swelling in the roof of my mouth. It didn't feel sore, just peculiar, so I gently prodded it with my toungue whilst still looking in the mirror.
This was not the most sensible thing I could have done. As I watched the 'spot' burst, dumping about a tablespoonful of greeny-grey pus into my mouth. Small mercy, the fetid smell of rotted flesh hit me before I was able to taste anything and I was violently sick.
The dentist was quite pleased, apparently it's quite unusual for an abcess to 'sinus'(?) naturally. Personally I'd have preferred it to have happened under the effects of intravenous Valium that all the rest of the work was done under.
On a side note. Bad tooth was capped, root canaled, capped again, fitted with post, capped again and finally after a second abcess, extracted. £1800 of work to keep a tooth that I finally had to pay to have extracted anyway. That hurt almost as much as the abcess.
(, Mon 6 Nov 2006, 17:30, Reply)
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