[john and helen]

Does your dentist's couch have a beach towel draped over it by any chance?

  you is a bad person 

and yes..come to think about it 

[doganjo]

You have my sympathy . I have had an infection in my jaw since june/july and in october an abscess that exploded  through the outside of my lower jaw/face , and has continued to ooze puss at varying degrees .
I have had 6 different batches of aggressive anti bios , all to no avail , one tooth removed , another drilled hollow and left to act as a drain , it didn't work !
Still pumping puss through my face , although it has gone down to one eruption a week ish .
Going to the dentist again on wednesday to see what is what . I will not be a happy bunny if they say more anti bios , they don't feckin work ! lol .
I am truly sick of it now . Luckily i have no problems with going to the dentist , mine are all from Rumania or Hungary and are very nice . I don't care where they are from though , i just want it sorted .
Hope yours is sorted now and you have no more problems .

Russ if they mention antibiotics again ask them to take a swab and send it for testing.  There are some bugs that only respond to specific ABs - trust my , my late husband was a microbiologist.

[tizaala]

this dentist is german..now i have nothing against the germans.. I am sure she is a very nice person under different circumstances ...but they do seem to have a different type of humour to us .... compassion didn't seem to be in the room..... ....

anyway ! I shouldn't moan..give it a few days and it should feel fine 

I bet she has to make an appointment to see a joke.....

[john and helen]

I think she was smiling when she was pulling..the crack of the tooth created a small but stylish grin ....

[Lesley Silvester]

Last tooth I had out took two dentists and over an hour to get out.  The both looked at it and decided it had a spiral root.  Maybe they should have tried unscrewing it instead of tugging.

[tizaala]

I've never got " unscrewed "

[NormandyMary]

Last tooth I had out took two dentists and over an hour to get out.  The both looked at it and decided it had a spiral root.  Maybe they should have tried unscrewing it instead of tugging.

Well, I don't know whether you'll believe this, I didn't at first, but apparently I was in the operating theatre for FOUR hours when they took all my wisdom teeth out many years ago, the dental surgeon who was assisting said that they had a terrible time trying to get the little buggers out and that it was no wonder that I was having acute pain afterwards. I had to have a fortnight off work the pain was so bad and as for the infection afterwards, there was a 5 mile exclusion zone around my mouth!!!!

[tizaala]

This is what we all looked like before we lost our milk teeth.......no wonder we all have problems with e'm..