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BlackCat
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I guess that many of the yuongsters here will not be able to understand the following, though children - one day it will be your turn 
To all the rest, tell about your horror stories; tell me that I'm not alone.
Ok, here it goes. For approx two years ago I was so unlucky to get a hole inbetween two teeth that was not discovered in time. The result ws two teeth that needed a root channel treatment (please enligthent me if I use a wrong term). One of them was no problem. I endured the pain of the needle when I the tooth got sedated, and there were no pain when he drilled the tooth down; cleaned the channels and inserted the support rods. Fine, that was acceptable, so a few days later it was tooth no 2. Dammit, I hate those needles - still, acceptable, but then the drilling started. For a moment all went fine except that I just hate that rumbling that resonates in the cranium, but then the drill hit the nerve. For the next two hours it was sedative directly on the drilling surface, rest a little until it had impact, drill until he hit unsedated nerve etc.
I'm not scared of dentists or what they can do (except those damn neddles) but I was totally exhausted after that session - and unless I'm wrong, the dentist also needed a rest.
Why writing all this ? Well, this evening the outer part of that particular tooth broke of !!! There are no pains currently, but I haven't been in the chair yet 
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Capt Dizle
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That's not pain. Pain is loving someone with your entire being, while they regard you with the fondnest most usually bestowed upon the neighbors cat.
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shawnmmcc
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Blackcat - get yourself a better dentist. I've had the exact same problem, except a filling had fallen out - I have cracked enamel from what they guess was a childhood very high fever, and my teeth crack so I have several fillings.
They had to scrape the decay off the top of the root, I had gotten to them just in time and they could save it.. I was lucky, I was poor and it was a dental school, and as you will see that made all the difference in the world. The student started scraping. I held my hand up, he stopped, and I told him that it really hurts - FYI all of my previous dental work had always hurt, so I thought that was normal, but the student had been very adamant.
So he sticks in a second needle. Scrape. Hand up. It REALLY hurts. He gets one of the instructors. Nice looking lady in her thirties I'd guess, couldn't see her lower face but she had these gorgeous grey eyes I could melt into forever. Until she injected me, and scrape. Hand up, it still REALLY hurts. Please understand at this point there is enough anasthetic that half my tongue is numb, and I am slurring pretty thoroughly.
OK, they get the lead instructor. Due to the high fever as a kid, and tetracycline, I have some odd shaped abnormalities with my teeth, plus the fracture problem. So he calls all the students over, and he shows them my mouth. He then shows them my jawline, I wear an XXL motorcycle helmet, and explains why the anasthetic was not working (my nerve sits deeper than normal due to the skull size - proportion bit). He then injected the nerve feeding the entire lower jaw, he called it a Goetz injection, procedure or something, that was 23 years ago - and I've got the name only close, not exact. Note that was injection number FOUR. It worked. I also had to go to work that afternoon, and I sounded like a drunk all night with my tongue half paralyzed.
Explain to him next time (or get a new dentist) that you've had trouble with numbing the tooth, and to please just numb the entire side of the jaw when he does it (inject the base of the nerve). I've had some fillings redone since then, and my current dentist has a fine touch with the needle so I haven't had that problem for a decade. I cannot imagine how bad having the entire root canal done that way would have felt. :shudder: Good luck. By the way, I've discovered water pics since then, and I have ALOT less problem with plaque. It's usally lack of flossing/water pics or some such that causes tooth decay and gum disease. Tooth brushing is nice, but it won't prevent it on it's own.
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BlackCat
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quote:
Originally posted by Dis
human teeth don't seem that effective from an evolutionary standpoint |
Sure they are, except they arent prepared for coca cola - besides, people are getting much older than they are supposed to be seen from an evolutionary standpoint .
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Bereta_Eder
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quote:
Originally posted by BlackCat For the next two hours it was sedative directly on the drilling surface, rest a little until it had impact, drill until he hit unsedated nerve etc.
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eh? that's odd. my root canal was 4 meetings and i didnt feel a thing. she hit me with the needle after she had placed a cherry thingy that had already made it numb. but no pain at all. not before not after. she also had a computer thingy that measures milimeters with lazer beams dont know why. it was when the crown got in by another one that the problems started with malloclusion. we're talking extreme pain.
Last edited by Bereta_Eder on 04-08-2005 at 05:02
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BlackCat
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quote:
Originally posted by Bereta_Eder
eh? that's odd. my root canal was 4 meetings and i didnt feel a thing. she hit me with the needle after she had placed a cherry thingy that had already made it numb. but no pain at all. not before not after. she also had a computer thingy that measures milimeters with lazer beams dont know why. it was when the crown got in by another one that the problems started with malloclusion. |
That is because the root is dead - then there isn't any pain wich was the case of my first such thing.
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Bereta_Eder
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the root (3 of them) wasnt dead when she started working on them. i dont think that's supposed to happen blackcat. be on the safe side and ask for a second opinion.
i never heard of a dentist stopping then anesthitizing then starting again?
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Bereta_Eder
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btw there's no way my kids are getting allowance if they dont brush their teeth. im going to be a fascista about that.
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BlackCat
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If the correct nerves are sedated, then no pain. I have three of these and two of them was painless (one was obvious because the root was dead), but the third was a problem. I got three sedations that was supposed to do the job, and belive me, they did - left part of my face and tounge was totally numb except that damn little tooth. What he did was drill the sedated part until I "yelled", then poured sedation directly on the tooth after wich he could drill again for some time.
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02-08-2005 03:20
Wish i'd listened to my mother 
ACK!
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