Dentist stories

[Jess from VA]

OK, I just got home from my dentist.

An old crown fell off a back molar, and I had to go in and get the rest of the previously root-cannaled root dug out, a bone graft put in, and stitched up.  It wasn't that bad, but holy crap the bill was $1600+; though with a crappy little ins. policy, my bill was $125.  That's probably all she wrote for this year's coverage though.  And I have more work.   

On the upside, he had a new assistant.  A very short gal who leaned her warm groin on my shoulder for the whole procedure.  So I concentrated on that to keep my mind off the scraping, prodding, yanking and stitching.  Best sex I've had in years.  So there's that.     (simple pleasures for simple minds)

I hate the dentist, even if he is a nice fellow.  And the Novocain is wearing off.

[The emperor has no clothes]

She was short, but her groin was level with your shoulder ? Does your dentist use a futon for his root canals ?  ???

[John Schmidt]

My wife made me quit putting my teesh in the dithwather to clean them, said it upset company when they would come for dinner. 

[Jess from VA]

She was short, but her groin was level with your shoulder ? Does your dentist use a futon for his root canals ?  ???

Remember that you get in a chair, that lowers way down for the Dentist to work on you.

And my dentist is Asian, and maybe 5'6".

So I'm basically laying down. 

And the Novacain is gone, and the throb is working. 

My shoulder is good though.   

[Willow]

...
So I'm basically laying down. 
...

Lying down, Jess.  Lay is an active verb.   

[Jess from VA]

...
So I'm basically laying down. 
...

Lying down, Jess.  Lay is an active verb.   

Thanks Carl.  Never was fond of lying. 

It's my experience, there are certain words you never get right.  And I have a half dozen words, I never type right either.  I know how to spell them, but my fingers have their own memory.

[hubcapsc]

A tiny piece of an old filling came out while I was flossing a couple of weeks
ago.

I called the office and said I'd like to drop by for them to look at it.

Dr. Paul wasn't going to be there the next day, so I saw his son, Dr. Brant, who
I'd never seen before.

It was fun telling him that nobody other than his father and grandfather had
ever looked in my mouth 

I've never lived more than a half hour or forty-five minutes from Greenville...

-Mike "there's no problem with the filling and no charge for the visit..."

[Jess from VA]

I fear I'm doomed.

My dentist has one child graduating college, but two more to go.

I paid for all my college myself, but I guess I'm not done.

I couldn't even begin to tell you how many different dentists I've been to.  Moving all over, military, and then there's the specialists you get sent to. 

[0leman]

Jess, I too have had a boat load of dentists.  Moving 9 times in my working for the gov (no military).  I now have more gold in my mouth than in the bank.  Thankfully my present dentist is in his late 30's so he should be around till I am not.   I haven't had to have any root cannels, but have had to have several teeth rebuilt due to wear.  I tend to eat a lot.   

[Jess from VA]

The downside on being old with old teeth, and pulled teeth, is that your eating habits need to change.

Some food eats easier than others.

However, oatmeal, mashed potatoes and soup are NOT the food I like to live on.   

[flsix]

All four wisdom teeth removed at one time by an oral surgeon whom my wife picked for me.
I didn't think it was funny when she said his name was Dr. Payne. After the gas wore off there was some pain but it was better than not being able to eat solid foods for a week because of the swelling.

[scooperhsd]

Yes - I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled at once - by an AirForce Oral Surgeon at Scott AFB almost right after I was commisioned.

[Jess from VA]

My wisdom teeth were done two at a time.

The first two were impacted and they put me to sleep.  When I woke up, not only did my mouth hurt, but I had a tennis shoe print on my forehead, where the dentist used his foot for extra pulling leverage.

[0leman]

Like Jess, I two had two wisdom teeth remove in two secession.  The top two took less than five minutes to remove, small cut and they popped out.  The bottom two were growing forward under the back molars.  Doc had to drill a hole in the teeth and use a chisel to break them up.  Though some say I have a big mouth, the Doc felt like he crawled in with his tool box.  Yeah, some pain but have high pain threshold.  No pills and was eating solid food in a couple of days (really dislike soup).

[Skinhead]

Mine were done 4 at time by an Army Dentist.  I semi-woke up, and remember him sitting on my chest banging my head off the headrest of the chair trying to yank them out.

[hubcapsc]

I had all four done at once, I was a teenager I guess... maybe my memory has faded,
but a recent root canal was the awfulest dentist thing that sticks in my mind... not
the procedure, maybe, just the bad tooth...

-Mike "don't put off a root canal..."

[Jess from VA]

Root canals, especially with 3-root molars, are the closest thing to legal torture I ever experienced.

After 4-5 gum shots would not stop the pain, he dripped the Novacain right down the drilled root holes and that made me straighten out in the chair like a piece of steel.  I would have given up any secret I had (or made something up) to not do that again.  And I'm probably looking at yet another one.  

I brush and floss and waterpic every day to keep what I have left, and it may be helping, but not enough.

[gregk]

I'll never forget after I got out of the service I had up to a yr. to get free dental work an this gal recamended to jerk my wisdom teed. Well they were anchored pretty good and she ended up getting ion my lap, both hands on the pliers. I thought I was getting murderd,  she had her assistant another gal come in and hold my shoulders still while I was so scared i was sweating like a hog. That was in 75.
Now I have to go in on the 8th to have 4 removed because when I had root canals done that dentist did not get all the root and the teeth are decaying underneath. The office said I won't need anybody to drive me home.  We'll see.

[scooperhsd]

I had a root canal done once - the dentist couldn't put any more novocaine in my gum - so the needle went into the roof of my mouth. Even with lidocaine to numb that wasn't enough ....

[Jess from VA]

because when I had root canals done that dentist did not get all the root

Having to have old root canaled teeth (with or without expensive crowns) pulled out eventually is not necessarily because the earlier dentist failed to get all the root out and sanitized (though it can be).  Sometimes, you end up with deep pockets beside/between those teeth, and stuff gets down in there that doesn't come out with normal brushing and flossing, and you can still get cavities/corrosion down in there underneath, even though it was already root canaled properly.  This is exactly what I am going through now.  Even using a Waterpic to flush out those deep pockets, which I have been doing for years.

No dental work is guaranteed for life, but having to pay (and suffer) large for molar root canals and crowns, only to have the things yanked out in older age is pissing me off.  

I'm getting bone implants (real cadaver bone, never synthetic) shoved down in the extraction holes (with stitches on top) to re-strengthen the bone down in there, so I can get implants (for thousands more) after a 6-8 month wait is on the horizon... for 3 teeth now.  

The horror......

I had a root canal done once   You lucky bastard.  Try 8-10.

And I am a paragon of dental self care.  My hygienist keeps telling me I have some of the cleanest teeth, he ever sees.  But it's way down in the root areas causing my trouble.  

[scooperhsd]

Oh , I've had 3-4 root canals- I was just commenting that I had the one with the needle in the roof of the mouth. Overall - I'm missing about a dozen teeth from the usual 32 because my mouth is too small for my teeth. I also paid for braces to get them in some semblance of straight so I could brush and floss them. Haven't had to have any root canals redone (knock on wood) yet. Have had to have fillings redone.

I hate going to dentists.

[Willow]

Mine were done 4 at time by an Army Dentist.  I semi-woke up, and remember him sitting on my chest banging my head off the headrest of the chair trying to yank them out.

I had two wisdom teeth removed during my last few weeks on active duty by a Navy dentist.  I had the other two removed thirty some years later by my current periodontist.  These days I see both a dentist and periodontist a couple of times per year.  They're both females.

If I have to choose between the ham hock hands of a male dentist or the dainty, pleasant hands of a young lady my choice is easy.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Mine were done 4 at time by an Army Dentist.  I semi-woke up, and remember him sitting on my chest banging my head off the headrest of the chair trying to yank them out.

I had two wisdom teeth removed during my last few weeks on active duty by a Navy dentist.  I had the other two removed thirty some years later by my current periodontist.  These days I see both a dentist and periodontist a couple of times per year.  They're both females.

If I have to choose between the ham hock hands of a male dentist or the dainty, pleasant hands of a young lady my choice is easy.

I had a fair amount of work done in boot camp. We were kind of poor as a kid and never went to dentists. Those Navy dentists must have been the bottom of the barrel, but I knew no better. Years later a regular dentist was astounded at the work done and brought everybody in his office to come see what they had done.  Now my current dentist is a nice mid 50’s lady. She is so good , she had a wisdom tooth pulled before I even realized it. Normally they pry, yank, jerk, and break them. This lady is smooth. (I think she knows what she’s doing)

[Jess from VA]

My post-military dentists were also amazed at much of the work I had done on active service.

Instead of grinding down a lot of healthy tooth for an expensive crown (like private dentists), the military dentists built up lots of amalgam on the tooth (like a great big filling) (and it was metal, not white synthetic).  My service dentistry lasted for many years (decades) with no problems.  But modern private dentists don't do it anymore because they don't make as much money doing it that way (as crowns/caps).  I think grinding down a good tooth for a crown, makes it weaker, and need a root canal sooner than the military repairs did.

It's a fact of life that some teeth come out easier than others.  I once paid $150 for an extraction I could probably have pulled out with my fingers (not a baby tooth, an adult one).   

[Skinhead]

After my discharge, my BIL was my dentist for a while, he said the Army dentist (female) did some outstanding work on me.  I root canal, one filling replacement with a post.  Some other Army dentist (dude) removed the wisdom teeth.  All the work was done a Ft. Dix, NJ.  I'll always remember the shoe leather (steaks) they served in the mess hall the day I had my wisdom teeth out.  I mashed 'em up as best I could and swallowed them, no chewing for about a week.

My current dentist is a nice, middle aged blond lady, that I enjoy visiting.  Fortunately she hasn't had to do a lot of work on me lately.


Carl (Willow Carl, not slingblade Carl) and I are on the same page as far as dentists go.

[Tato]

So, this woman gets into the dental chair
the dentist sits next to the chair
the patient says to the dentist
"I don't know which is worse, having my teeth filled or having a baby"
the dentist replies
"hurry up and make up your mind so I can adjust the chair!

[Super Santa]

A dentist I had years ago had a sign in his office that I loved.

"Ignore your teeth; they'll go away"