I hate Dentists......
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ColinJ
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I'm almost fainting just reading this stuff... 
I was fine going to the dentist until my family moved when I was 7. We changed dentist and that's when the trouble started...
The new dentist was like Laurence Olivier's character in Marathon Man, only not as friendly!
On my very first appointment, he decided to do a lot of drilling without anaesthetic. It hurt and I told him so but he just told me not to be 'a big baby' (I was only 7 years old, for heaven's sake!) and just carried on drilling. I ended up fainting, so of course - he carried on... (obviously a believer in swooning as a form of pain relief).
I had some freaky nightmares about a lunatic with power tools performing surgery inside my head and then came round to discover that there was a lunatic with power tools performing surgery inside my head and promptly fainted again! When I came round the second time, he was finished and my mother was standing over me asking what had happened. He told her some crap about me misbehaving...
I wasn't keen to go back there again but I needed a couple more fillings and reluctantly allowed my mother to take me back about a month later. I wanted her in with me but sado-dentist man wouldn't allow it. He came towards me with his big old-fashioned drill and I panicked and wouldn't open my mouth. He screamed abuse at me which traumatised me even more and it ended up with his knee on my chest and him trying to force my jaws open. I started screaming and my mother ran in. He reluctantly allowed her to stay while he filled the teeth.
A few weeks after that visit a girl ended up in hospital after her mouth was butchered by that man. We never went back to him.
Even now, 46 years later, I find dental treatment traumatic. I didn't go for 30 years and then got two rotten teeth and an abcess. I fainted having those teeth pulled 9 years ago. I currently have 3 broken teeth needing attention.
I suppose that you could say that I'm not right keen on going to the dentist...
I was fine going to the dentist until my family moved when I was 7. We changed dentist and that's when the trouble started...
The new dentist was like Laurence Olivier's character in Marathon Man, only not as friendly!
On my very first appointment, he decided to do a lot of drilling without anaesthetic. It hurt and I told him so but he just told me not to be 'a big baby' (I was only 7 years old, for heaven's sake!) and just carried on drilling. I ended up fainting, so of course - he carried on... (obviously a believer in swooning as a form of pain relief).
I had some freaky nightmares about a lunatic with power tools performing surgery inside my head and then came round to discover that there was a lunatic with power tools performing surgery inside my head and promptly fainted again! When I came round the second time, he was finished and my mother was standing over me asking what had happened. He told her some crap about me misbehaving...
I wasn't keen to go back there again but I needed a couple more fillings and reluctantly allowed my mother to take me back about a month later. I wanted her in with me but sado-dentist man wouldn't allow it. He came towards me with his big old-fashioned drill and I panicked and wouldn't open my mouth. He screamed abuse at me which traumatised me even more and it ended up with his knee on my chest and him trying to force my jaws open. I started screaming and my mother ran in. He reluctantly allowed her to stay while he filled the teeth.
A few weeks after that visit a girl ended up in hospital after her mouth was butchered by that man. We never went back to him.
Even now, 46 years later, I find dental treatment traumatic. I didn't go for 30 years and then got two rotten teeth and an abcess. I fainted having those teeth pulled 9 years ago. I currently have 3 broken teeth needing attention.
I suppose that you could say that I'm not right keen on going to the dentist...
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ColinJ said:I was fine going to the dentist until my family moved when I was 7. We changed dentist and that's when the trouble started...
The new dentist was like Laurence Olivier's character in Marathon Man, only not as friendly!
On my very first appointment, he decided to do a lot of drilling without anaesthetic. It hurt and I told him so but he just told me not to be 'a big baby' (I was only 7 years old, for heaven's sake!) and just carried on drilling. I ended up fainting, so of course - he carried on... (obviously a believer in swooning as a form of pain relief).
I had some freaky nightmares about a lunatic with power tools performing surgery inside my head and then came round to discover that there was a lunatic with power tools performing surgery inside my head and promptly fainted again! When I came round the second time, he was finished and my mother was standing over me asking what had happened. He told her some crap about me misbehaving...
I wasn't keen to go back there again but I needed a couple more fillings and reluctantly allowed my mother to take me back about a month later. I wanted her in with me but sado-dentist man wouldn't allow it. He came towards me with his big old-fashioned drill and I panicked and wouldn't open my mouth. He screamed abuse at me which traumatised me even more and it ended up with his knee on my chest and him trying to force my jaws open. I started screaming and my mother ran in. He reluctantly allowed her to stay while he filled the teeth.
A few weeks after that visit a girl ended up in hospital after her mouth was butchered by that man. We never went back to him.
Even now, 46 years later, I find dental treatment traumatic. I didn't go for 30 years and then got two rotten teeth and an abcess. I fainted having those teeth pulled 9 years ago. I currently have 3 broken teeth needing attention.
I suppose that you could say that I'm not right keen on going to the dentist...
Yer chicken !
No seriously, goto the Dentists explain the situation and have them give you a bit more numbing stuff !
Believe me - ive had a few teethy'pegs out and as long they give you plenty of 'gear' your laughing sotospeak !
Just asked them to put more than they usualy do in...believe me - you won't feel your mouth for a week !
RE: Mouth Pain - a dentist once told em that the reason teeth hurt SOO much is because you have bone-then-tooth-then-nerve !
Their is no 'flesh' to absorb the pain like your fatbits etc - on the body...
Your either born with great teeth OR not, but i feel that if you keep your teeth in good condition at a very early age they will be good for your life - yet abuse them not cleaning, eating bad foods; then forget it....
accountantpete
OAP
My childhood lunatic dentist insisted I had gas for an extraction. So he popped a mouthpiece in to deliver the gas but forgot to attatch a separate nose clip to stop me breathing through my nose.
What happened then is that I had nightmarish TV interference like vision,a sound like a pneumatic drill in my head and the relatively small matter of pain as he started to twist the tooth. The last thing I remember was his assistant saying "he's still breathing in air you silly billy" and laughing her head off !
What happened then is that I had nightmarish TV interference like vision,a sound like a pneumatic drill in my head and the relatively small matter of pain as he started to twist the tooth. The last thing I remember was his assistant saying "he's still breathing in air you silly billy" and laughing her head off !
Than God I never had any experience like that Colin.
It isn't surprising you don't like the dentist!!!
I did go private a few years ago when I had a real problem and my NHS dentist couldn't/wouldn't do anything about it. He kept fobbing me off and telling me would 'resolve in due course' which I knew was complete bollocks.
So I bit the bullet, found a private dentist, and had a series of treatments which included 'deep cleaning' around all the tooth bases. Which effectively meant peeling back the gums and scrubbing away down near the bone, plus a couple of crowns.
That and quite a bit more work set me back a pretty penny and eventually I couldn't afford to get anymore done. However the original problem got sorted out.
Subsequent to that I have found a good NHS dentist who last time around fitted a crown and did the old scale and polish etc etc for less than £200.
It isn't surprising you don't like the dentist!!!
I did go private a few years ago when I had a real problem and my NHS dentist couldn't/wouldn't do anything about it. He kept fobbing me off and telling me would 'resolve in due course' which I knew was complete bollocks.
So I bit the bullet, found a private dentist, and had a series of treatments which included 'deep cleaning' around all the tooth bases. Which effectively meant peeling back the gums and scrubbing away down near the bone, plus a couple of crowns.
That and quite a bit more work set me back a pretty penny and eventually I couldn't afford to get anymore done. However the original problem got sorted out.
Subsequent to that I have found a good NHS dentist who last time around fitted a crown and did the old scale and polish etc etc for less than £200.
pes
Well-Known Member
I have a good mate who some 15 years ago spent about £25K on titanium implants.
He's not vane or particualrly wealthy but just decided that as he was frequently in front of people as part of his job he wanted to present a good set of teeth.
They (the teeth) were absolutely magnificent until one morning when cycling under the underpass in Runcorn he hit a patch of diesel, went down, hit the kerb head first and pulled the chuffing lot out
He's not vane or particualrly wealthy but just decided that as he was frequently in front of people as part of his job he wanted to present a good set of teeth.
They (the teeth) were absolutely magnificent until one morning when cycling under the underpass in Runcorn he hit a patch of diesel, went down, hit the kerb head first and pulled the chuffing lot out
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
In 1991, on the day of my mum's funeral, I developed a massive abcess on one of my front teeth, the big ones at the front... well, it was a false tooth, the real one having been knocked out on the bottom of a swimming pool when I was 14, so the abcess was in the gum.
Really painful, kind of got in the way of what I had hoped to concentrate on that day, if you see what I mean... anyways, couple of days later had to have operation under local anaesthetic, eight stitches in the gum and a face that looked like I'd picked a fight with Mike Tyson... was on NHS, but cost £350 even then, so gawd knows what the private cost would have been!
Really painful, kind of got in the way of what I had hoped to concentrate on that day, if you see what I mean... anyways, couple of days later had to have operation under local anaesthetic, eight stitches in the gum and a face that looked like I'd picked a fight with Mike Tyson... was on NHS, but cost £350 even then, so gawd knows what the private cost would have been!
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
Fnaar said:
I had that - just the same. I lost count but it was at least a dozen injections of anaesthetic into the gum, the stuff was running down my throat - bitterest thing I've ever tasted
. Then they cut a flap of skin on the gum and hoovered the gunge out. Stiched it up and I had to gargle salt water for a week.Gross.....everyone enjoying breakfast?
MickL
Über Member
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- Dudley by the Castle...
postman said:
I paid total of £46.50 for
Inspection
3 fillings
1 mini Xray
1 extraction
Clean and polish
Its the cheapest I have every paid, they are NHS dentist in Dudley town centre and open on Saturdays which is an extra bonus.
Good job you got the abscess sorted out, up in the attic of the Archaeology department at York Uni, there is a jaw bone of a horse that had an abscess. The gunge ate away at the bone eventually killing the horse. Not very nice I know but that's what can happen if you leave it.
Amanda P
Legendary Member
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- York. Well, York-ish...
We used to be signed up with a private dentist, because there were no NHS ones with vacancies. £40 a time just for a checkup. Another £15 if you don't stop him polishing in time.
Oddly, every time Mrs Uncle Phil went, he'd try to sell her dental insurance which would cost £120 a year or so. She has hard teeth, a low decay rate, and at 39 has no fillings at all.
When I went, he never mentioned it. I also have a low decay rate, but I do have one filling, and problematic, slowly-erupting wisdom teeth. (Had one hoiked out when it started wearinga hole in my cheek. The other three are lurking, biding their time...)
Anyway, we're going to see our new NHS dentist for the first time tomorrow. Neither of us will need any work, but it's reassuring to think that if in future we do, we might actually be able to afford it.
Oddly, every time Mrs Uncle Phil went, he'd try to sell her dental insurance which would cost £120 a year or so. She has hard teeth, a low decay rate, and at 39 has no fillings at all.
When I went, he never mentioned it. I also have a low decay rate, but I do have one filling, and problematic, slowly-erupting wisdom teeth. (Had one hoiked out when it started wearinga hole in my cheek. The other three are lurking, biding their time...)
Anyway, we're going to see our new NHS dentist for the first time tomorrow. Neither of us will need any work, but it's reassuring to think that if in future we do, we might actually be able to afford it.
Jane Smart
The Queen
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- Dunfermline Fife
Dear god Colin, your story made me cry that is just awful.
I hated dentists all my life, when I was a kid, I would get fillings without anaesthetic as I was scared of needles
I no longer do that.
My dentist is a lovely young man ( 27 years old ) handsome and loves talking about cars to me when I go in. He puts me at ease immediately.
Saying that tomorrow I have a new back crown fitted and already my palms are wet thinking about it
I would hate to go down the false teeth route, I have all my own just now, so have insured my teeth with that denplan thing, so that if I fall from my bike or a horse, or do anything to lose a tooth, I can have implants fitted
that is just awful. I hated dentists all my life, when I was a kid, I would get fillings without anaesthetic as I was scared of needles
I no longer do that.My dentist is a lovely young man ( 27 years old ) handsome and loves talking about cars to me when I go in. He puts me at ease immediately.
Saying that tomorrow I have a new back crown fitted and already my palms are wet thinking about it
I would hate to go down the false teeth route, I have all my own just now, so have insured my teeth with that denplan thing, so that if I fall from my bike or a horse, or do anything to lose a tooth, I can have implants fitted
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Will augmenting the boobular area take one's mind off the tooth pain?Jane Smart said:...so that if I fall from my bike or a horse, or do anything to lose a tooth, I can have implants fitted
