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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When I was about 3 or 4I had to have a filling in a tooth that was dead. This was just to hold it over until I had it removed. My Dentist assured me that due to the fact that the nerve in the tooth was dead, I would not need anaesthetic. Fair enough.
It turns out he was pretty far off the mark with that prediction.
The drill penetrated straight through the rotting enamel and straight into the live nerve. If you think you know pain, I'm sorry to inform you that you're wrong. Nothing I have done before or since will equate to that feeling. I still get a shiver thinking about it, and it was 18 years ago. Apparently there was a 99.5% chance (or something very similar, I don't quite recall) that the nerve was dead. My mother recalls that I squeezed her hand so tightly she thought it was broken. My dentist recalls the fact that a 4 year old shouldn't have such a fierce left hook...
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PMGT -Bacon., Fri 3 Nov 2006, 0:19,
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