Dentists
My 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..."
( , Thu 2 Nov 2006, 14:31)
My 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..."
( , Thu 2 Nov 2006, 14:31)
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Anesthetic?
Once had a filling done by a NHS dentist (during primary school) without an anesthetic. Dentist assured me I wouldn't feel a thing, "Don't need one son, it's just a small filling, it'll be done in no more than twenty minutes." Aye, try telling the ten year old that ten minutes into the most excruciating agony he had ever felt in his life at that point.
"Never having one of those again," I remember thinking.
Thirteen fillings (with anesthetic) later...
( , Fri 3 Nov 2006, 18:33, Reply)
Once had a filling done by a NHS dentist (during primary school) without an anesthetic. Dentist assured me I wouldn't feel a thing, "Don't need one son, it's just a small filling, it'll be done in no more than twenty minutes." Aye, try telling the ten year old that ten minutes into the most excruciating agony he had ever felt in his life at that point.
"Never having one of those again," I remember thinking.
Thirteen fillings (with anesthetic) later...
( , Fri 3 Nov 2006, 18:33, Reply)
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