Chuckles
Back when I was a kid I had to have a lot of my baby teeth removed by the dentist - apparently this was common around that area due to the fluorided water or something. Although my dad gave me the choice of the string and the clothes line, the string and the door knob or the dentist, so I can't complain.

Anyway, these were generally done using laughing gas. One day I was having a tooth out, and the dentist gave me 5 or 10 mins of gas until I was ready, then just when he was about to start, he had a phone call. The next 20 mins I was lying there, breathing in the laughing gas, with the old Dr Who theme song going through my head as I spun around and around. Then he came back and was about to start, and someone else called him away to the front desk. After 10 mins the nurse came in and turned off the gas. Then just as I finished coming down the dentist returned and put the gas on again, and then left for another 10mins for it to start working. I must have been having head spins for almost an hour.

I remember thinking near the end of it that it wasn't having as much effect as it did at the start. I can't remember whether he eventually went through with it, but I think he must have. Even if it didn't do much to the pain, it may have done something to the memory, so that is almost as good.

My current dentist is mad keen on flossing so always tells me to floss, and then gets some of his industrial strength floss and rips into the teeth and gums. I swear he is trying to make the most blood possible. I have now learnt to floss for the 3 days before an appointment, which cuts the bleeding down to a manageable level. He seems happier now.
(Skippyfillet, Sun 5 Nov 2006, 11:45, Reply)