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It must've taken effect by now
I hadn't been to the dentist for about 5 years, bit of a lazy bastard but then my teeth had been fine.

I had some trouble with an infection around my wisdom teeth so I registered at the same NHS practice as the wife so they could give me some antibiotics and I'd be on my way. Well not quite they'd need to patch up a chipped tooth I'd had for years as well. Couldn't do the patching up until the infection had cleared up though, so I returned a week or so later. She has a poke around in my mouth and proceeds to give me an injection with the local anesthetic, "oops not quite right I'll have another bash shall I?" (ok I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea). I sit around for a bit waiting for it to take effect around the appropriate tooth, nothing. "Has it taken effect yet?" she asks, "No" says I, "Oh it must have by now" says she, "We'll just start and if you feel anything just let me know".

Needless to say the minute she started drilling out the existing filling I felt a sharp pain, I didn't scream, merely calmly indicated to the dozy bitch that perhaps she should have another go with the needle. Anyways, two injections later she finally hit the right spot and did what needed doing. Of course my mouth was numb for the rest of the day, but hey.

The guy that replaced her is fine, never had any problems with him at all. In fact he had to replace an old filling and he hit the spot first time.
(Thu 2nd Nov 2006, 17:58, More)