Grit your teeth in the sandbox

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Haha, it's horrible when your dentist wears glasses and you can see it all going on reflected in his glasses.

I once vomited on my dentist, which was curiously less satisfying than one would think. (I was only about seven)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a crown last year and, at one point, informed my dentist that I was going to essentially pass out and asked him not to narrate the procedure as I was only interested in the result.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The dentist-in-glasses thing is especially horrible when the blood and enamel dust/tissue that are being ground out of your mouth end up on his lenses and it's all hovering right in front of you. All in all, though, I discovered that I can let someone perform all kinds of painful, bloody operations that I can't see and have no control over if a) I breathe deeply enough, and b) the alternative is months and months of dying nerves and abscesses and hardly being able to chew and eat.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel, OTM

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, DRUGS

― Michael White (Miguelito), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I went home over Christmas break, went to the dentist, and was told I'd need a cavity filled. I said I was only home for another week and a half, since my classes started up soon, and they were like "um, the dentist's vacation is during that week and a half. Sucks to be you."

I suppose I could find a dentist up at school and make an appointment. But...it doesn't hurt, can't I just let it be?

― Maria e (Maria), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I was embarrassed that I drank coffee on the way there and had coffee breath. That embarrassment paled when he ground away an old filling and the intense odor of decay came out of my mouth. He and the assistant didn't flinch and it was soon gone.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I think if it's not a huge cavity, you can let it be for a few months.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Do not let it be. Get it fixed now, while it's small. The drilling will be less invasive, you'll need less of the terrifying pricky needles with painkillers, and more of the tooth will be intact to withstand the ravages of time -- because I'm starting to think that once a tooth has a filling it's only a matter of years before it degrades further, I'm sorry to say; there's no perfect way to keep bacteria and decay out of the joint between enamel & dental work.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I was embarrassed that I drank coffee on the way there and had coffee breath.

replace with "smoking" :-(

― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, take Valium/Xanax/Ambien before you go! With the first two you won't care about the pain or tissue damaage, and with the third you'll still care a little but but you'll forget all about it by morning.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

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