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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: colliewoman on May 23, 2012, 06:04:28 pm
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Bastards!
I've not been on for a bit as my mouth basically exploded :'(
I'm TERRIFIED of the dentist, but was very brave and had 2 teeth out :o :o
I must admit the dentist was amazing and apart from some pressure on one tooth I felt nothing!
Didn't get a sticker though :-\ ;D ;D
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Have you put them under your pillow for the tooth fairy ? ;D ;D ;D
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No but #i did insist the dentist showed em to me to prove they were out!
Ashamed to admit they were proper manky :-[ :-[
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Well done for braving up to two extractions. I won't tell you my story, it can't possibly help anyone :o
When I was little, I used to 'recycle' my teeth - Mum began to realise she was dishing out more tanners than most shark have teeth so stopped giving them back to me - so then I started using pieces of polo mint broken to look like baby teeth...
My dad used to collect old newspapers and 'recycle' them on street corners, "EeeeenIN StanUUUUDDD". So I'm just following my genes... ;)
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Go on, morbid curiosity and all that..... (plus I've been, and can't be scared!) ;D ;D
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I am soooo grateful I had my wisdom teeth out electively under general anaesthetic when I was 16 before they started causing trouble.
My teeth are quite crowded so the dentist knew that they would be trouble.
Don't envy you Colliewoman. Mind you - I loooooove going to the dentist. I floss every night and always get good scores on my gum inspections.
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Go on, morbid curiosity and all that..... (plus I've been, and can't be scared!) ;D ;D
Yah, but others can! If you really need to know, I'll pm you!
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While most people's wisdom teeth are practically fixed to their jaw, mine weren't and were so shallowly rooted that they fell out. :o
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Go on, morbid curiosity and all that..... (plus I've been, and can't be scared!) ;D ;D
Yah, but others can! If you really need to know, I'll pm you!
Go on then, I am a sick puppy :D
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I must be really stupid then ;) I've reached the ripe old age of 68 without any of mine appearing ;D And with previous extractions there's plenty of room for them to come in, and they'd probably be welcome as well to fill the gaps. ::) ;D
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Ooh howhorrid. I don't think I've got mine........yet! Let's hope they never arrive either ;D
Too terrified for dentists tho I must brave it if only to take my two boys. They have not been yet and the oldest is ten. Luckily they have had lovely teeth but oldest has inherited my small mouth,big teeth syndrome so will need to go soon...........I'm shaking at the mere thought :-\
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I had a huge scare as a child, and actually walked out dragging my wee sister with me after the dentist tried to shove the mask over my face without warning. Been scared of them since, so I made sure my kids went as soon as they could walk. My fear must have transferred to my son though, he is terrified too. Now I have eye candy for a dentist ;) so I don't mind so much - and he is really gentle. ;D
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my eldest daughter does not allow the dentist to use needles in her mouth all work done without an anaesthetic :farmer:
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my eldest daughter does not allow the dentist to use needles in her mouth all work done without an anaesthetic :farmer:
:o :o that is brave.
It's not the injection for me it's the whole dentist visit! Lots of work done while young to straighten my teeth left a fobia , once I smell the damned place I start trembling.
Last visit the nurse had to hold me still I was trembling so much just to look in my mouth. That was about 5 yr ago and I needed a tooth out!!
I can wholeheartedly sympathise colliewoman :bouquet: hope you feel better soon.
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I am also a complete woose when it comes to the dentist and I really don't know why as I have never really had a bad experience with them but I actually have nightmares where I wake up and all my teeth have fallen out. I wake up and have to check that they are all still there!
The last time I went I had to have an injection and the dentist was fab and really had put me at my ease. He put the first injection in and went to put the 2nd in, missed my mouth entirely and stabbed his own thumb! I don't think I have been that scared in a very long time! Managed to pretend to be a grown up and not run out gibbering.
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The last time I went I had to have an injection and the dentist was fab and really had put me at my ease. He put the first injection in and went to put the 2nd in, missed my mouth entirely and stabbed his own thumb! I don't think I have been that scared in a very long time! Managed to pretend to be a grown up and not run out gibbering.
It wouldn't give you a lot of confidence, I can see that, although it seems funny to me. ;D
My last wisdom tooth came through when I was 59 (two years ago). I was delighted as the previous three had to be taken out very soon. This one turned out to be impacted as it was coming through crooked and pressing against the next tooth so, not only did it have to come out, I had to go into hospital and have a general anaesthetic.
Last tooth I had out had a spiral root. Let's just say it took two dentists a long time and a lot of anaesthetic. :(
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:o :o fal se teeth have a lot going for them.
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In my twenties I had two impacted wisdom teeth removed for which I went into hospital and had a general anaesthetic. The words of my dentist when he said "I'd like to be there but not to do it, just to watch" were prophetic. When I woke up it was like the surgeon had had his boots in my mouth. It then turned out that in the hour allocated he'd only got one out and I had to return some months later to have the other removed.
Moving swiftly on 35 years my dentist told me at Xmas that one of my teeth had cracked and needed removing. I told him of my past problems and he called in a specialist. Said specialist took 2 hours and 43 minutes to remove the bugger, and did the whole exercise under local anaesthetic.
It's good to see the advances in dentistry over the last few decades, but I have asked the General Dental Council for a view given that my fear of dentists has turned into outright terror.
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I had a bad experience with a dentist as a child - quite frankly, I think the man was not very competent... But for the past 12 years I've had a brilliant dentist - just had a check-up today, a few months ago he did a root canal, didn't feel a thing... If it wasn't for the horrible radio music he inflicts on everybody in every single room in that building - even in the loo!!! - I would really enjoy going there... The chairs are so comfy, too.