Ban... hope the sockets heal up. I can see that being an active participant would lead to throbbing in the wrong head... i suspect you could endure in a more passive role... what better excuse will you ever have for that!?
I hope it heals up too. Right now, it's very odd feeling teeth, a space, and then gum with the side of my tongue. We'll see about enduring the passive role, but every day I feel a little bit better, so hopefully it won't be too much longer.
Wow....I'm getting a crown this coming week, no thank you very much! I think dentists have some vile motives to teach you a lesson when they start digging around with that fish hook looking torture device they all have in their arsenals! Hope you feel better soon Ban
Thank you, Mandy, and I hope your Dentist is as good as mine. He took a half hour to get me numb (mostly to make sure, but also because I gag pretty easily, so it took a few attempts to get the needle in, even after they had initially numbed me some with a gel so I wouldn't feel the shots), and then took like 10 minutes a tooth. The funny thing is, he said he was giving me something that would make it so I wouldn't remember the procedure, but what I don't remember is the ride home. I remember the procedure and the distant feeling of vibrations and pulling, but there wasn't any pain.
I hafta say, I think it's kinda odd that it's good for our teeth to have a sharp, pointy piece of steel scraping away at our teeth. I would think that might inflict more harm than good.
I feel both of your pains, I went to have my very back molar removed due to complications but anyways they gave me nine shots of novacaine still didnt get me numb enough stupid dentist broke a piece of my tooth off and stopped so now i have to find an oral surgeon to get it removed. fun fun times I have a high threshold of pain but that was down right hurtfull
Wow, that's bad. I think mine's an MDS (Master of Dental Surgery), 'cause one of mine broke too (taking it from a simple extraction to a surgical one), but he just went on in and dug out the roots right then. The other hadn't fully erupted, so there was a flap of gum between it and the tooth above, which meant I couldn't chew without biting my gum. That one he had to dig out and cut into little pieces that they sucked out. After, he gave me 2 pain killers, both 6 hours between doses, but they were 2 different things so I could take 1 and then the other only 3 hours later, and they said to take 1 before the stuff they gave me for the procedure wore off. So I was well drugged and didn't have to put up with pain as 1 dose wore off and the next took its time to kick in.
