Tooth removal with sedation.

Cuchulain said:
Same happened with me, had to get a molar out but it the roots were bent at almost 90 degree's, I think he was more trying to keep me in the chair while he was yanking (yanking ...) rather than trying to get leverage. It was on the NHS so presumably he didn't want the ballache of having to slice my gums up and stitch me back up afterwards.
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yea it was definitely to hold me down when it happened to me

i guess that as barbaric as dentists are they still dont resort to head straps

arknor said:
lol was eating some chewy sweets and the middle of my first molar just came clean out :S

all the edges inside are proper tooth enamel stuff lol just the softer part of the tooth came out in one lump with part of a dead route attached :O

its a tooth i had root canal surgery done on about 10 years ago i just thought its crazy!
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you have pulled the filling out then , the 'dead root' you see is the part of the filling that was put inside your root during the root canal

unlucky ! keep it clean , i pulled a root filling out (the tooth ive ever had trouble with tbh) and got an abscess in there , it drove me to insanity and is actually why they pulled out my tooth as described above
 
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Princey said:
Charging a smidge under £800 and that includes a crown and 12 fillings.
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Surgical extraction under sedation, a crown (happen to know the type? all ceramic/precious metal?) and 12 fillings, sounds quite reasonable for £800 of private work.
Did they do discount due to number of restorations, or are the fillings all quite small?
 
Rainmaker said:
From experience, that'll take all of... oh, about three seconds. ;)

Jab in, midazolam released, you're mid sentence and giwgbenasulm....

Job done. :D

You might remember second snippets here and there. When they'd finished with me I said I was aware the whole time and the nurse asked how long? I said 'A good ten minutes there'... Turned out they'd been digging the buggers out for over an hour. :o

You'll find that you're 'there', but 'not there'. It's absolutely impossible to describe to someone who hasn't had it done. You won't care at all, you won't really know, but very occasionally you'll realise you're having something put into, or taken out of, your face - and you won't give a *****! (which is the important part).

As soon as you've realised, you're off again. As the day wears on your memory will get worse and worse. DO make sure you have supervision for 24 hours or so, and DO NOT be alone with children or pets. This may sound stupid (I thought so when I read the leaflet) but after having it done, I agree. You think you're all fine and dandy, until you realise you've forgotten half the car journey home, and what you were just talking about, or who to... Not really safe to be around little 'uns unsupervised.

None of this is intended to scare you, quite the opposite. The drugs are powerful, super super nice and floaty, and by the morning after you'll barely remember anything of the day before, and by then your mouth's half way to being healed. I'd definitely have it done again if I needed to. They're all kinds of win. Enjoy! :D
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What he said. Midazolam for the win.

Had two teeth taken out under that and it was all good.

And i call dentists 'face rapists' by the way, so it must have been good.
 
ed79 said:
I had all 4 wisdom teeth taken out in around 1997. They first put a clamp on my finger tip to measure your pulse, then put a needle in the top part of my hand, and first gave me a sedative that they said would help me relax - can't say I noticed any difference.

Then a couple of minutes later they gave me another injection and said it might feel cold. You could feel the cold going up your arm. I just blinked and the next thing I knew the clock had jumped forward 45 minutes and I discovered I had a blanket on top of me that wasn't there last time I looked!

So based on my experience - you won't remember a thing.

I just felt nice and warm and relaxed for the first 5 minutes after waking then felt fine - not groggy at all. However (and Vegetarians earlier post may explain why) for the next day I couldn't open my mouth more than about 1cm wide which made eating a bit difficult.
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Absolutely identical to my experience in 2009, to the letter.

Literally the only difference is that my girlfriend said I looked a bit green and was talking rubbish when she picked me up.
 
Kreeeee said:
Absolutely identical to my experience in 2009, to the letter.

Literally the only difference is that my girlfriend said I looked a bit green and was talking rubbish when she picked me up.
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Same here. 4 wisdom teeth out under general. I don't even remember much before the op.
Took about a week to heal and I had bad swelling but that's pretty normal for wisdom teeth.
They pumped me with morphine afterwards too, which was pretty awesome :D
 
ed79 said:
Then a couple of minutes later they gave me another injection and said it might feel cold. You could feel the cold going up your arm. I just blinked and the next thing I knew the clock had jumped forward 45 minutes and I discovered I had a blanket on top of me that wasn't there last time I looked!

So based on my experience - you won't remember a thing.
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Interesting question if you're concious though it but don't remember it after does it matter if it hurts?

I.e you're sedated then operated on , it's agonisingly painful but once it's done you wont remember it, to you it'll be as though it never happened despite you experiencing it.


Would you mind?
 
had 4 teeth out, just had aesthetic in the gums, funny sensation of blood coming out of a hole when you cant feel but vaguely taste it :P
 
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Tefal said:
Interesting question if you're concious though it but don't remember it after does it matter if it hurts?

I.e you're sedated then operated on , it's agonisingly painful but once it's done you wont remember it, to you it'll be as though it never happened despite you experiencing it.


Would you mind?
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Yeah, I've wondered this too. The missus assures me though that when I'm sedated I'm pretty much just asleep and couldn't care less about any pain. The only thing I've ever managed to remember was coughing on some of the water spray stuff and the hygienist saying "it's OK....it's just water..." and then they must have slipped me another happy pill.

As others have said, I've got up to some amusing shenanigans while "coming down" though. Apparently, back home, I woke up and went to the bathroom - the missus heard noises and came in to find me trying to climb through the window blinds.....I was all tangled up and pawing ineffectually at them, talking complete gibberish as I did so. Don't remember any of it though. Good times :D

ETA: For some reason I keep reading the thread title as "Tooth removal with Saddam" - a torture instructional video, maybe?
 
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I had my wisdoms out month odd ago. Was meant to be given full iv sedation. Got there got all ready and then they where like yeh your just getting light sedation due to your kidney issues. It was horrific hearing the cracking and pushing no pain though. Make sure they knock you out proper with a General
 
DAvE18 said:
. Make sure they knock you out proper with a General
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Requires a hospital environment.
There are absolutely no practices licenced to do generals anymore, not for 15 years since the death of that wee scottish lassie.
General's have inherent risk associated with them, which tends to be lessened in a proper practice that does i-v's properly.
 
I had to have a lot of work done in the 80s and the dentist insisted I'd be sedated because there was no chance I'd sit still in the chair for 2 hours.
I can remember having the injection in my arm at exactly 9am and I woke up 40 minutes later and told him that I had woken up.
He just said I hadn't been asleep and I argued with him that I had just woken up.
He said I'd been talking to him and answering questions since 9am :eek:
Even to this day I feel like I was violated because what did he ask me?
What secrets did he get out of me?
One week later I had to go through it again and I woke up 35 minutes later and once again he told me I hadn't been asleep.
I still feel weird about it all these years later and I've always opted for normal gum injections since then.
 
dmpoole said:
I had to have a lot of work done in the 80s and the dentist insisted I'd be sedated because there was no chance I'd sit still in the chair for 2 hours.
I can remember having the injection in my arm at exactly 9am and I woke up 40 minutes later and told him that I had woken up.
He just said I hadn't been asleep and I argued with him that I had just woken up.
He said I'd been talking to him and answering questions since 9am :eek:
Even to this day I feel like I was violated because what did he ask me?
What secrets did he get out of me?
One week later I had to go through it again and I woke up 35 minutes later and once again he told me I hadn't been asleep.
I still feel weird about it all these years later and I've always opted for normal gum injections since then.
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The truth is alsmost certainly far more boring and mundane than your paranoia believes.
 
[FnG]magnolia;19171118 said:
The truth is alsmost certainly far more boring and mundane than your paranoia believes.
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I'm 100% sure he found out I dress up as Davina at the weekends and I collect pencils.
How embarassing.
 
I may have to have a sidewards on wisdom tooth out soon. But I'm waiting for as long as possible before I go ahead with it. Dunno what I'll do about sedation/local aneasthetic.

I was sedated for some testing on something else a while back though, not unconscious just sedated slightly, remember most of it pretty well, but didn't care too much about the procedure. Afterwards I was put on a heart monitoring device and I did have fun breathing slower to make the machine monitoring my heart beep less freqently, then speed up, then slow down again. :D
 
I had to be sedated when i was 13 to get a tooth out that was coming in wrong. but that's really more of a surgical procedure. felt weird being sedated, woke up feeling drowsy and don't remember any of it. I had braces for a couple years and now absolutely hate the dentist. if i ever need work done im definately being sedated. The taste and smell of ground down teeth makes me gag.
 
My dentist is a very slightly-built young woman, about my age (30 ish). She's actually a maxillofacial surgeon, not just a dentist. She's very pretty, but any concept of any form of attraction of her looks fast went out the window when she stuck that ***************** massive needle in my face a couple of weeks back. Evil cow. :(

I *really* shouldn't have glanced at the needle when she had it loaded up and ready to plunge into my gob. :(
 
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