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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DentistMany, many years ago when I was a student I had three wisdom teeth removed as they weren't growing properly. This was attempted by a young, very slight dental student who couldn't shift them so a larger, beefier version was brought in for the full knee-in-chest experience. When the anaesthetic wore off - agony! I was told not to take aspirin, so all there was were variants of paracetemol, these being the dark ages before ibuprofen. Paracetemol does not work on me so went to quacks in agony and was prescribed - oh yes - another version of paras. Do doctors ever listen? Finally found the only effective painkiller available to me - alcohol.
That night in th pub - glass of wine in one hand (with a straw in) and glass of whiskey in the other (also with straw). I think it worked, but my memory of that time is a little unreliable.......
(, Fri 3 Nov 2006, 14:11, Reply)
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