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Crunch crunch
So it's eight years ago, I'm 22, I haven't been to the dentist in nearly a decade, and I've got to have a wisdom tooth out - it got stuck as it was growing out, a bit of food got caught underneath it and it slowly hollowed out.

The dentist took OVER AN HOUR to extract one tooth. Gave me four times the usual amount of anaesthetic (and refused me more). After twenty minutes, having been tugging with one foot braced on the chair for more force, she looks at the x-ray again and sees that the tooth has three roots instead of the usual two, and they're impacted. So they decide to crush it into small pieces with pliers and pick the bits out instead. My skull resounded with the cracking noises as they went at it.

I slipped in and out of focus a bit at that point, but I distinctly recall a piece of tooth flying up and hitting the assistant's safety specs. Still, at least it was free, as I was still a scummy student at the time...

First post - be gentler than the dentist was!
(Tue 7th Nov 2006, 2:34, More)