Horrible, just horrible

I have a broken tooth (half a tooth with filling attached) which is starting to go black and starting to hurt. Have dentist in 3 weeks and assuming I have to have it out, reading this scares me!! :(
 
I'm 48, haven't been to a dentist in 32 years, after having a reaction to the anesthetic after leaving the dentist & collapsing in the street, & carted of to hospital.
I am terrified of dentists, need a broken tooth removed, but the dental hospital won't touch me, & no dentist will refer me to the local hospital, so I have to put up with it for another 32 years.
 
I've had some really painful experiences at the dentist. Especially during root canals. What I do is this magical thing called raising my hand. I then tell them to stop what is hurting me and/or give me another shot.
 
Sounds weird, no conscious tooth removals, but had loads of injections upper and lower jaw...by sounds it you had lower jaw as the needle is meant to go in deep to your neck to anaesthetise the nerve which senses your entire left/right side, hence why your whole face goes...she did that properly at least by sounds of it, if done properly you can hardly feel a thing, so sounds like she's a sucky dentist ?
 
Had a few local anaesthetics in the gum over the last few months. I've always had them every so often but cannot believe how far in the needle goes with this dentist.

It doesn't hurt, but I can feel the needle going in and I thought it was going to come out of my neck if he went any further! I'll give this guy credit, it does work better - as long as he temporarily paralyses my face so I can't feel a thing - he can keep doing it... the last dentist only borderline numbs it, have had to ask for more previously.

Hate the dentist, even though it's never been painful - its just too invasive and you cant get away from the crunch or drilling noise or the feeling of fragments of tooth in your mouth!
 
No mention of the word pain or hurt or did I skip over it? sounds like you were more nervous and worried about sounds and what not! :p

Personally, I also dread and fear the dentist more than anything, I don't care about needles, surgery, anything like that, even had a wound cautorized without anaesthetic.

But... when it comes to my gob and dental work, nothing has ever stopped it hurting as if I had zero anaesthetic, it's numb sure... but it still HURTS beyond the ability to control myself, I can only assume it would be like being tortured via the direct stimulation of nerve endings.

Second to that, the only place I have an aversion to needles is my gums, I once had a needle snap and get trapped in my gum, it was like someone hit me in the face with a truck I just lurched in pain, then came the pain of having a needle, stuck in your gums, being cut out with a scalpel and it hurting more than anything I have ever experienced in my life to date, ever, EVER.

Last time I went to the dentist, I went under general anaesthetic, mainly because everything that needed done was well over an hour and I just can't deal with that :(

This is all coming from me who says getting a tattoo often "tickles".
 
I could not bring myself to read your post as I am myself petrified of dental treatment. I have had 1 tooth removed and that was because some how I managed to split it in half, my normal dentist would not do it as he was scared of.how I would react, I had to pay extra and get a large amount of gas and air before allowing a dentist to remove.it, there was.no pain and it.came.out easy (although as I said I was pretty high by this time).

I am not kidding when I say I would rather have a full.blown.internal operation than have a tooth pulled.

Feel for you, I really do.
 
Gotta love all the "man up" responces. Tickles me :)

On a serious note though, as said before everyone has different pain thresholds and will obviosuly deal with it differently.

No way near as bad as it sounds? yeah thats because every single dental tooth extraction/removal (call it what you like) is the same. Yes of course it is. Ppfftt.

Was there pain at the time of the extraction? No of course not. But there was discomfort and the feeling of a tooth being prised up from your bleedin jaw bone is not a nice thing to experience.

Root canals. Yeah they are probably worse. Fair enough there were no complications but still, having an injection in the mouth is one of the most un natural things known to man.

I rest my case.
 
I've only recently had to have 4 teeth taken out. Top back two on each side that I managed to destroy with years of drinking irn bru and not looking after them.

The poor dentist struggled on trying to lever them out and was getting there, she had to split the roots...or cut it in half going by what I felt?

I got given a weeks supply of antibiotics and it bled for about 3 days...then I found a hard jaggy bit still in the gum which is possibly a bit of bone she says.

This is after I didn't learn as a kid and had to get 3 teeth out at the same time once, one of them snapped in half in the process and blood went over my face :(

I tried to walk on a broken foot for two weeks and cycled home on it after breaking it so I'd say I handle pain in a strange way.
 
LOL I had four pulled in one sitting about two years ago, I underwent sedation (butterfly needle in the back of the hand, felt pretty good tbh) then the shots to the gums, and then the guy just hoofed all 4 out, one after another - no pain, no sensation at all really. All I remember was the horrible crunching sounds. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! *shudders*
 
lee32uk said:
Having a wisdom tooth out is nothing......a root canal filling on the other hand :eek:
Click to expand...

Depends, I had a compacted wisdom removed, root canal in a molar, and that moral having to be pulled entirely.

I'd say the wisdom tooth removal was the worst. They had to slice my gum open, chisel at my tooth to break it in to 3 chunks, then rip them out my face. Was swollen and looking like Popeye for days.
 
Nitefly said:
The only time I've ever been in serious pain was when an extraction led to a 'dry socket' - holy moly that was awful.
Click to expand...

This was my biggest fear in the lead up to my appointment, I was fortunate in that I had no such complications, but I was dreading the whole experience because of this possibility. I'd read horrifying accounts of people who'd experienced dry-socket; basically for 48 hours you're at the point of wanting to take your own life. Absolutely monstrous.
 
My dentist gave me no advice on tooth extraction so the blood clot that is there to heal the hole, I thought had to be mopped up with my little piece of gauze. Luckily, I looked on the Internet and saw that it is vital to prevent dry socket. Close call.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom