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Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Who invented wisdom teeth???
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2012, 11:02:30 pm »

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.   :(

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Who invented wisdom teeth???
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2012, 11:10:45 pm »
 :o  :o fal se teeth have a lot going for them.

Small Farmer

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • Bedfordshire
Re: Who invented wisdom teeth???
« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2012, 07:20:25 pm »
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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Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Who invented wisdom teeth???
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2012, 07:46:24 pm »
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.

 

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