Ouch !!

[Hacienda71]

Tooth problems a couple of years ago, is the only pain that has woken me in the middle of the night in absolute agony. Not nice.

 

[hopless500]

Try having your teeth pulled/removed/filled, without the aid of painkillers or anaesthetic

That's what the school dentist used to do. I didn't even know that anaesthetic existed until years later when I was offered an injection

 

[hopless500]

Must be something in the air...
The other week I was eating a hobnob (the best of biscuits... I felt betrayed) and I felt what I can only describe as a bit of sticky-uppy oatiness in my narrow gum-tooth space, (all techincal terms, don't look them up) similar to when you might get a bit of popcorn stuck there.
Anyhow I tried to fetch it out with a fingernail, only for half my premolar to come tumbling out.
This was in the middle of the motorway after a night shift and to say I felt like world was ending is no understatement.
Anyhow my local dentist was top notch and I can eat again. Thankfully it didn't break near a nerve so I wasn't it pain. Still, it was blooming scary and I didn't want to look like Cletus the slack jawed yokel!!
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[classic33]

That's what the school dentist used to do. I didn't even know that anaesthetic existed until years later when I was offered an injection

I'm not allowed the injection on account of a reaction to a local & a general, both of which will get me into hospital. If I'm lucky.

 

[tadpole]

Try this for size, be eating popcorn, and crack the unpopped corn (I was bored) snap a tooth lengthways to the root, tooth is dislodged so it is now snagging on the gum and making that bleed. 2230hrs on a Tuesday. only thing in the house is calpol and that is not touching it. Using only two mirrors, a head torch and leather-man pliers. Pull out tooth mouth filled with a jet of puss, rinse and spit neat vodka, get an emergency dental appointment the following Thursday.
Dentist fills remain stump, with the warning it could snap off at any point. Temp filling last 12 hours and you get a dry socket infection that two course of strong antibiotics don't touch. See a different dentist 14 days later that would not pull out the stump but root canals fills it. No pain till Yesterday when the remaining bit of the tooth snap off leaving a jagged piece of the root poking up no option but pull that out with my leather man.

 

[asterix]

Sure puts punctures into perspective..

 

[Hill Wimp]

Broke tooth Sunday, visit dentist today, 8.5 minutes later he is richer by £51 and i have a "temporary filling".

When i asked how temporary that was he said well it may last 2 weeks or 2 years but when it comes out it will have to be crowned

 

[cyberknight]

Went back today for a root filling and antibiotics.

 

[classic33]

Broke tooth Sunday, visit dentist today, 8.5 minutes later he is richer by £51 and i have a "temporary filling".

When i asked how temporary that was he said well it may last 2 weeks or 2 years but when it comes out it will have to be crowned

How much to be "Crowned"?

 

[LarryDuff]

Try having your teeth pulled/removed/filled, without the aid of painkillers or anaesthetic

I had that as a kid. Our dentist didn't believe in new-fangled stuff like pain relief. I really wished I had eaten less sweets and brushed more regularly.

 

[classic33]

I had that as a kid. Our dentist didn't believe in new-fangled stuff like pain relief. I really wished I had eaten less sweets and brushed more regularly.

Thats the only way I've been able to get them done.

 

[Hill Wimp]

How much to be "Crowned"?

£600

 

[GlasgowFinn]

...................... leaving a jagged piece of the root poking up no option but pull that out with my leather man.