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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REAL painYou lot don’t know you’re born. The most painful thing you can do – in connection with dentists, that is – is to force your child to go for check-ups, fillings, orthodonistry, the FULL WORKS when they cry all the way to the door, stifle sobs in the waiting room, make you come into the surgery and watch as they writhe with pain.
I will NEVER forget the look my daughter gave me from the orthodontist’s chair as he tightened her train-tracks. He used to say “If it hurts, lift your arm”, she’d lift it as soon as she sat down, start waving it around, try to punch him, arm-wrestle the nurse…how she still loves me, I’ll never know.
We did keep her ‘before’ mouth casts though…scary.
My own dentist stories are boring and ended about seven years ago when I was chucked out of the last NHS practice in town for missing a check up. How is this NHS???? when they charge a small fortune just for turning up??? [In my day…]
(, Wed 8 Nov 2006, 11:13, Reply)
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