To much anaesthetic at the dentist today

[MarkF]

I went yesterday, been having pain in a molar for a week. I pay £35 a month for "preventative care", have done for 20 years + with no work needed. 6 months after my last check up/clean where my teeth were rated 4*, a rear molar has deteriorated so far that it is now recommended to be extracted! What happened to my preventative care? Peed off.

 

[Drago]

Ask for your money back! If you'd paid for preventative maintenance on your car and it still blew up you'd go all Schwarzenegger at the garage.

 

[vickster]

I went yesterday, been having pain in a molar for a week. I pay £35 a month for "preventative care", have done for 20 years + with no work needed. 6 months after my last check up/clean where my teeth were rated 4*, a rear molar has deteriorated so far that it is now recommended to be extracted! What happened to my preventative care? Peed off.

Did you ask how this has happened

I had my back bottom right tooth out on Saturday (old root canal gone bad, even specialist didn’t think a revision would be successful...and v expensive (around £1500 potentially).

Extraction took over half an hour, my poor jaw became fatigued! It’s now just v sore! But only cost £90 so the money saved can go towards titanium

 

[Hacienda71]

I had a dentist who used to use injections with adrenalin in as well as anaesthetic. Until I was told what it was by another dentist i knew socially I had worried I was going to have a heart attack in his chair as my pulse rate went through the roof. I was only in my 20's at the time.

 

[Dave7]

I don't mind the numb feeling at all, anything is better than the gas we had as children, I still have have nightmares about it.

As they brought that HUGE black smelly rubber mask and forced your face into it...........also give me nightmares.

 

[Dave7]

Did you ask how this has happened

I had my back bottom right tooth out on Saturday (old root canal gone bad, even specialist didn’t think a revision would be successful...and v expensive (around £1500 potentially).

Extraction took over half an hour, my poor jaw became fatigued! It’s now just v sore! But only cost £90 so the money saved can go towards titanium

Titanium teeth ...........you will be like the guy off James Bond

 

[vickster]

Titanium teeth ...........you will be like the guy off James Bond

Obvs not

 

[cyberknight]

Did you ask how this has happened

I had my back bottom right tooth out on Saturday (old root canal gone bad, even specialist didn’t think a revision would be successful...and v expensive (around £1500 potentially).

Extraction took over half an hour, my poor jaw became fatigued! It’s now just v sore! But only cost £90 so the money saved can go towards titanium

I might have to have a similar tooth out , the root filling went into the sinus and it never felt right and the tooth next to it the gum is receding .

 

[MarkF]

One good thing (whether the tooth is lost or not) is that I found a local practice who will offer me TWICE as many check ups/cleans (4 per annum) for £17.50! I've been royally had, paying £38 a month for so little that I might lose a tooth.

 

[Andrew_P]

As they brought that HUGE black smelly rubber mask and forced your face into it...........also give me nightmares.

I was taken to Kings College to have an abscessed tooth removed aged 8, I can still remember as clear as day the Bus Journey at 6.30am, and fighting the nurses getting me in to the room by using my feet and arms on the door frame and then when finally pinned to the flat chair a big black rubber mask with its trailing concertina tubing coming towards me, then the smell and being told pretend you are a Spaceman count backwards from 10. As I went off I had a buzzing noise that got louder as I drifted off, still to this very day when I am really,really tired just as I start to drift that bloody noise starts off and wafts me back to being 8!

 

[vickster]

One good thing (whether the tooth is lost or not) is that I found a local practice who will offer me TWICE as many check ups/cleans (4 per annum) for £17.50! I've been royally had, paying £38 a month for so little that I might lose a tooth.

No kidding! I pay £13.25 a month for two very thorough annual dentist check ups (with X-rays if needed) and two hygienist cleans (torments). Includes free emergency checks (I wasn't charged for the one which identified the injection which identified the dodgy old root canal...)...and that's in super expensive Surrey!

 

[Milzy]

I went yesterday, been having pain in a molar for a week. I pay £35 a month for "preventative care", have done for 20 years + with no work needed. 6 months after my last check up/clean where my teeth were rated 4*, a rear molar has deteriorated so far that it is now recommended to be extracted! What happened to my preventative care? Peed off.

Peed off? Ripped off. I have 1 check up a year. Only 1 small filling. Good teeth. Only thing is as you get older gums recede in the end no matter how you brush.