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Ron Collins

Ron Collins

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I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled this morning. I didnt think the pain would be that bad, but I was wrong. You gotta love the pain meds. Anyway, just before the surgery they had me sign this CYA paper. My god you should see the stuff on this. In case any of the following happen I cant sue them. There were listed as A - M. Here are a few.

- Broken Jaw
- Severing of nerve resulting in numbness of the jaw for the rst of my life
- A hole might develop from the two upper teeth into a sinious cavity. That may get infected.
- Cardiac Arrest
- Strep Infection
- Severe blood loss
oh and the last on the list: Death. (there was actually a "." at the end of death)

I realize it was CYA, but its just like the tags they put on Hair dryers telling you not to toss them into the tub with you. Somebody suffered these things. It makes you wonder how we managed to live with a full set of teeth for millions of years.

Enough of my rambling. Anyone have any Dental horror stories?
 
Only that my dentist pulled one of my teeth out without the anaesthetic having taken full effect! I was screaming at him that it blummin hurt....all to no avail....OUCH!
 
I had 4 of 5 oversized, deeply-rooted wisdom-teeth pulled. The anaesthetic didn't work AT ALL! After he poked me in the jaw with his needle about 10 times, I was just like, "Pull the damn things out already." He had to plant a foot on the arm of the chair to get enough leverage. I thought he was gonna break my fricken neck.
 
I have something like wisdom teeth blocking molars from coming in. Dentist was amazed I'm not in pain. Doesn't bother me, so screw giving him money.

I have a phobia of having a sneezing or coughing fit in the dentist chair while they are working on me. Or the runs.
 
Not really a horror story, but one time I developed an abscess on the first day of a UK tour. Because of an infection in one of those big molars, upper left. It felt like I had one of those sherbet filled flying saucer sweets stuck to the top of my mouth. I was in so much pain I didn't eat for a couple of days.

I got it pulled in Derby eventually (Lots of ghosts there apparently) but before we got there I had to go to an emergency clinic somewhere near Manchester, where they prescribed Amoxicillin. They told me to take a 3 gram sachet of it in a drink there and then, and again the next day, then to stick to the tablets until the swelling went down. Also I wasn't to drink alcohol.

So I did what they said, except like I mentioned before we were touring, so later when we played, of course I drank alcohol. The pain subsided and I drank some more, not lots but I certainly enjoyed the relief and had a great night, (floating about 2 inches off the stage) ha ha.

Damn tooth had the last laugh though. Bloody thing broke up when being extracted, which became a real barrel of laughs.

Mark
 
let's see... age of 4 or so, first visit to dentist, did not want to open my mouth as I was a bit shy... mouth forced open by mean dentist... mouth clamped shut on mean dentist's finger and bit down HARD :D
next visit - 15. next visit - 21 It took about 25 years to find a dentist I could trust enough that I could relax enough to fall asleep in the chair.
worst experience? double abscess over a weekend, and needing a shot in the backside of a very powerful painkiller because the codeine 3's were not working...
easiest experience? two teeth pulled, even though one had to have the bone chipped away around it and that session was as easy as the double root canals that followed the weekend of hell of the double abscess. gotta love novocaine!
phobia of? teeth cleaning. I hate that metal scraper that finds each and every sensitive spot on a person's teeth.

long and short: when you start feeling like your eye is being stabbed by a sharp spike through one of your teeth, hie thee to a dentist!!!! nothing a reasonably competent dentist can do will ever hurt as much as a double-abscess. :frown:
 
ya, I told a dentist once that I rinsed my mouth with whisky whenever I had a toothache, and he didn't believe it worked, because I wouldn't drink it, just rinse with it. I didn't care what he thought, it worked.
although you may think me wasteful for not drinking it, I was pregnant at the time, and even a teaspoon of alcohol is enough to get me silly.
 
RonCollins said:
Enough of my rambling. Anyone have any Dental horror stories?
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Well I had fun a few years back. Discovered that the medication I was on for my exciting anxziety disorder ... and depression :D ... had weakend my teeth to such an extent that they were liable to snap off just under the gumline (well this was the dentists theory anyway).

So ... I had to have them all pulled out. It was done in a bit by bit process over a number of months. First the molars on one side came out ... then the molars on the other side. And after 6 months or so the front teeth had to come out.

Sooo ... the big day came and the dentist filled me full of anaesthetic and started pulling.

Unfortunately for me the anaesthetic kept wearing off really quickly ... and not only that the teeth either had more roots than was normal or they were just really hard to pull out.

So the dentist had trouble pulling them out ... while the anaesthetic kept wearing off ... meaning he had to fill me up with more every so often.

Finally after over an hour of pulling etc he finally got my final tooth out.

He then informed me that he had given me enough anaesthetic to "knock down a black man" (!!) :D.

Anyhow got home with a mouthful of plastic drugged up to the nines. Yes you do feel like a horse before you ask , and a couple of hours after having them out, I had to clean my mouth with salt water and put in some more bandages to help the healing process along.

Well I was not very happy taking my teeth out for the first time. The amount of blood was scary beyond belief. Never have I been so scared in all my life (i put that down to the anaesthetic). My thoughts were mainly of the "what if i don't stop bleeding" kind of thought.

Anyway ... to cut a long story short I fainted. Picture Frodo doing that strangely elegant faint he does in Lord of the Rings.

Well my partner was there with me so she caught me and put me in the recovery position ... and I lay there for 10 mins before I finally came to my senses again.

I discovered a few days later that I had a lump on my forehead. It turns out that I must have hit the sink in the bathroom on my way down. Didn't feel a thing .

But the good thing to come of all that pain and grief was that I don't need any fillings any more ... whoopty doo :D.
 
paraschtick said:
Well I had fun a few years back. Discovered that the medication I was on for my exciting anxziety disorder ... and depression :D ... had weakend my teeth to such an extent that they were liable to snap off just under the gumline (well this was the dentists theory anyway).

So ... I had to have them all pulled out. It was done in a bit by bit process over a number of months. First the molars on one side came out ... then the molars on the other side. And after 6 months or so the front teeth had to come out.

Sooo ... the big day came and the dentist filled me full of anaesthetic and started pulling.

Unfortunately for me the anaesthetic kept wearing off really quickly ... and not only that the teeth either had more roots than was normal or they were just really hard to pull out.

So the dentist had trouble pulling them out ... while the anaesthetic kept wearing off ... meaning he had to fill me up with more every so often.

Finally after over an hour of pulling etc he finally got my final tooth out.

He then informed me that he had given me enough anaesthetic to "knock down a black man" (!!) :D.

Anyhow got home with a mouthful of plastic drugged up to the nines. Yes you do feel like a horse before you ask , and a couple of hours after having them out, I had to clean my mouth with salt water and put in some more bandages to help the healing process along.

Well I was not very happy taking my teeth out for the first time. The amount of blood was scary beyond belief. Never have I been so scared in all my life (i put that down to the anaesthetic). My thoughts were mainly of the "what if i don't stop bleeding" kind of thought.

Anyway ... to cut a long story short I fainted. Picture Frodo doing that strangely elegant faint he does in Lord of the Rings.

Well my partner was there with me so she caught me and put me in the recovery position ... and I lay there for 10 mins before I finally came to my senses again.

I discovered a few days later that I had a lump on my forehead. It turns out that I must have hit the sink in the bathroom on my way down. Didn't feel a thing .

But the good thing to come of all that pain and grief was that I don't need any fillings any more ... whoopty doo :D.
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I had 4 of 5 wisdom-teeth, deep-rooted bastards, pulled while the dental-assistant alternated between me and someone getting an herbal-colonic in the next-room over. Kinda left a bad-taste in my mouth.
 
I don't know about you guys with five wisdom teeth. There are supposed to be only four! I share the pain with novacaine. I need twice as much as normal before it really works. When I had my wisdom teeth out, they just put me under. I woke up and they were gone. just a day of mild wooziness and I was fine. No pain at all. I tossed the pain pills. Guess that's a non-horror story. Sorry!
 
I am presently 32yrs. old and still have a baby tooth. It's in there good.

I also had 3 years of braces. Eating popcorn was a frickin' nightmare. After that, I had a year with a glow-in-the dark retainer/appliance.
Now the dentist tells me that the molars used to anchor those braces might have to be pulled!

The best horror story I have is this one day I had 3 hours of drilling and filling in the chair, and with the freezing still in, I rode away from the office that day on my mountain bike. I flew down the small hill by the office and a car ripped out in front of me, so I locked the brakes up. My bike stopped short of the car, but I flew over the handlebars and across the hood of the car, bailing onto the sidewalk face-first. Turns out it was the receptionist from the dentist's office.
Once the freezing wore off...............Damn!
 
Strange how nature seems to have problems with giving us a good set of teeth. And what's up with the wisdom tooth many need taken out? Wonder if other species have problems with their teeth like we seem to.
 
Stillborn said:
Strange how nature seems to have problems with giving us a good set of teeth. And what's up with the wisdom tooth many need taken out? Wonder if other species have problems with their teeth like we seem to.
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Our problem with wisdom teeth is evolution. Hominids have 32 teeth. Our jaws have grown smaller than those of Chimpanzees and Gorillas over time, so the four biggest molars are crowded. Other species have tooth wear issues from eating gritty stuff, but they don't get cavities becaise they don't eat sugar. Their teeth are not as much of a problem for them because they generally die before their teeth wear out. Our lifespans are about three times longer than what they would be if were in the jungle.
 
Schuyler said:
Our problem with wisdom teeth is evolution. Hominids have 32 teeth. Our jaws have grown smaller than those of Chimpanzees and Gorillas over time, so the four biggest molars are crowded. Other species have tooth wear issues from eating gritty stuff, but they don't get cavities becaise they don't eat sugar. Their teeth are not as much of a problem for them because they generally die before their teeth wear out. Our lifespans are about three times longer than what they would be if were in the jungle.
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Any idea why our jaws shrunk?
 
Stillborn said:
Any idea why our jaws shrunk?
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the easy (and probably somewhat simplistic, I realize) answer here is that we started cooking our meat so it doesn't take as much effort to chew. We are also a gracile (slight) form of homind nowhere near as strong as our cousins or many of our ancestors. Also, we're kind of a hybrid race (no aliens here) in that we are omnivorous, so we have both canines and molars. Look at a cat's teeth for comparison. They rip and tear exclusively. We also do not rely exclusively on our teeth for weapons. We 'extend our teeth' by making arrows, spears, and knives to do the really heavy cutting. rom an evolutionary standpoint, we simply do not need as strong a set of teeth as other species do.
 
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