Chili Ron Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Howdy, A couple weeks back a tooth gave up and quit. So I had to get the root out. I just dreaded going to the oral surgeon. It was on my mind day after day from dawn to dark. Today was the day and two count em two assistants escorted me to the CHAIR. I should have asked to have my blood pressure taken. I bet it set a record. I sat back and opened my mouth and he put in this and fussed with that and made a few little comments and one nurse had to go get something. More fussing and turn your head and more fuss. Then they took off the napkin thing and it was done. What? Bite down on this gauze for a half hour. Don't eat for a while. Follow these written instructions. Insurance covers some, check for about 300 Done. Go home.... What? Where was all the drama?? Now the real question....should I go buy a lotto ticket? Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 I think Bottles at the saloon still does tattoos. More on the line of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Maybe you should change your alias to Fang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Yeah!! Go buy a couple lottery tickets. that sounds like a good idea! Cat Brules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrus Cassidy #45437 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Pard, this is the last thread I'm reading before I head off to the dentist for a ROOT CANAL!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I had a large cavity, and the edge of the tooth had broken off. I was in enough pain that I overcame my dentaphobia and went to see one. He cleaned out the tooth, and the pain stopped. Then he told me that I needed to have a root canal. it was obvious from my expression that I was scared poopless. He asked why I was scared, and I told him that A I was scared of dentists anyhow, and B root canals were so painful (though I had never had a root canal I had heard for years about root canals being so painful). He told me I had been misinformed. That I had been in pain, but he had relieved that, and the root canal was virtually painless. Then he glued a plastic temporary cap on my tooth. Two weeks later I am at the dentist who did root canals. He was a specialist - all he did was root canals. He explained what he would do. He had itty bitty stainless steel burrs with which he would drill out the root core in my tooth. He would rotate the burr by hand. Once he cleaned out the root core, he would fill the hollow with silicone. Put another plastic temporary cap on it, and I would go back to the first dentist to get a metal cap. Then he hands me a set of earphones and a remote, and rocked the chair back. He had a television in his ceiling. I laid back there in the chair with my mouth open and watched television for about 45 minutes. Then he told me I was done. Absolutely NO PAIN WHATSOEVER. Best dental experience I have ever had. If all of them were that nice, I might not have dentaphobia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 You guys are lucky. The last time I had to have a couple of extractions it felt like they were trying to rip my face off. I think my dentist previously performed interrogations at Guantanamo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 42 minutes ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: You guys are lucky. The last time I had to have a couple of extractions it felt like they were trying to rip my face off. I think my dentist previously performed interrogations at Guantanamo. The only torture at Guantanamo is making them watch soccer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted March 10, 2020 Author Share Posted March 10, 2020 Howdy Cyrus, I will say a prayer fer ya pard. Good luck to ya. Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Jack Calder Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 You’s guys are all pikers... While on active duty in the US Navy, I had to have an impacted Wisdom Tooth removed, at SEA. Using the standard big needle full of Novocain “Doc” proceeded to fill my gums with enough to blow up a whale boat. Then the Dentist tells me “Bad news, the root of your tooth is curved.” “I can not just pull the tooth, I will have to split it length wise and pull out each half.” So he tells Doc “I’ll hold the chisel and you hit it.” They are all set and then I hear a whack, feel a heavy jolt and then the Dentist says “D@mn”. You don’t want to hear “D@mn” from any Medico that is working on you. The Dentist tells me “Well the good news is the tooth split, the bad news is, it’s in 5 pieces and I’m going to have to dig for them.” Just so you know “dig” means chisel my jaw bone all to h#ll. Four hours later I looked like one of those Disney cartoons of Chip and Dale with their mouth full of acorns. My face was still swollen when we hit Norfolk, VA. The first thing Miss Susie May said to me was “You look like Richard Nixon.” I was still spitting bone chips that worked their was out of my gums a year later. That’s the TRUTH and I’m stick’n to it! CJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Navy Dentists get promoted into that job. Their previous jobs were loading 20mm and 40mm canon ammo into fighter/bombers A-10’s and helicopter gunships. After that.... Dentist? How hard can that be? Cat Brules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I've had a bunch of root canals, and recently an implant and an adjacent broken tooth extracted. Let me tell you about PAIN! Oh, nothing the tooth jockies did...they give you novacain so you only have a little discomfort when it wears off. Oh, no. The painful part is when you walk out to the receptionist (or in the case of the implant before I walked IN) and she says, "Will that be cash, check or credit card?" The screaming I hear is coming from my back pocket, where my plastic card resides! And, no, I don't have dental insurance! For what I owe I could have bought a custom piece of iron of some sort! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Cat Brules said: Navy Dentists get promoted into that job. Their previous jobs were loading 20mm and 40mm canon ammo into fighter/bombers A-10’s and helicopter gunships. After that.... Dentist? How hard can that be? Cat Brules When I went on active duty in the Air Force, as part of the incoming physical, I had to see the dentist. They took x-rays of my mouth, and the dentist comes in and says, "You've got two big cavities in your lower front teeth." He shows me the films, and I tell him he needs to look again...those are two caps on a couple of teeth that I had broken off as a kid! All he said was, "Oh." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 Howdy, Yes pards I know I was lucky. Ive had some pain too, just got lucky for once. Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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