God I love/hate dentists !!!

[JohnK]

LOLOL

thanks folks. Actually the emergency dentist was great. OK, a couple of needle pricks then the drills, then the smell - ugh !!

So, filling repaired but it seems I either need to lose the tooth or get a root filling whatever that is. I opted for a root filling (when I have found a dentist to register with)

I got a feeling this is going to drag out - both in time and cost...................

Just as well I dont need any new dive gear

[ray]

Hi/

Quite a few years ago her indoors managed to get tooth ache on Christmas day, so we had to go to the A&E at our hospital, the longshot was they could not help her but they had the number of a dentist who would do emergency's. We rang him up and he said come straight down, we came to this house and he welcomed us in, sat her down in the chair and began to fiddle about in her mouth, well the gentleman who was very nice was also VERY old, maybe in his eighty's, and looking around the surgery it was even older than him, with all this rickety dentist paraphernalia.
He said he would have to pull a tooth, and produced this enormous syringe with a big brass end, he injected her indoors and said let me no when it goes numb, after a certain time he asked "is it numb yet", her indoors said no I can still feel a lot of pain and when I touch the area I can feel my finger, His answer was "GOOD" and he started to pull the tooth, there was such a scream and the poor old guy went flying across the floor from a firm shove in his stomach by her indoors foot, he picked himself up and said hold her while I pull it out, I had to hold her in a bear hug while he did his business with her indoors squealing like a pig. any way he got the tooth out.
As we were going out to pay him I noticed the date on the anesthetic it was years old, I do not no if it goes off with age , but from that day you have to nearly drag her to the dentist.

[Wil B]

I am a Dental Student, we dentists are all lovely people really, the university system weeds the mean ones out in the first two years before we get to practice on real people!! (although we apparently are third only anaesthetists and Psychiatrists for Suicide and drug addiction! Well how would you feel if everyone hated you!)

If the injection is done right it shouldn't hurt at all! Most of my patients don't even flinch when i give freeze now :-)

Ask for topical Anaesthetic first; make sure it is on for at least 2 minutes.

If you are really unhappy ask for Relative Analgesia, it is the dreaded Nitrous Oxide but as long as you leave it 24 hours before diving again (as you should after a root filling anyway) it will be clear of your system.

I have recently completed my Dissertation of on the Dental Implications of Scuba Diving and if there is any interest I will post my findings. Believe me there are plenty (nearly7000 words :-)

All the Best
Wil

[Pigpen]

Originally Posted by Porg

Also agree a signal with your hands if you want them to stop so you can compose yourself or if it hurts.

First hint of pain, grasp his testicles lightly. Increase the grip relative to the pain. They soon stop!

[JohnK]

Finally got my tooth out and it was a doddle. Thanks to all who advised/reassured. I even booked another appointment. There is NO WAY I will ever go thru the agony of a tooth block again.

Hope to be back in the water on Sat

[ScubaSue]

Originally Posted by kirky

Finally got my tooth out and it was a doddle. Thanks to all who advised/reassured. I even booked another appointment. There is NO WAY I will ever go thru the agony of a tooth block again.

Hope to be back in the water on Sat

I love my dentist too, but that's another story. Ah, just been told by the old man, ...lust, not love!!!