Re: I was off to the dentist again
- From: sum1@xxxxxxxxxx (Ian)
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:54:22 +0000 (GMT)
Know the feeling! 9 or 10 years ago, once we were married, my wife
expressed horror at the state of my remaining teeth, I think I had
about 10 left, all in the bottom deck.
I explained that very few had good well preserved teeth in the UK,
which was one reason we don't go about grinning from ear to ear all day:
this would reveal our black and rotting molars!
Her dentist almost spewed up when he shone the lamp in my gob, and
immediately made an appointment for a few fillings.
But on a later visit, some 2 or 3 years later, maybe less, he shook his
head and said it was beyond him now, and referred me to a dental surgeon.
I am terrified of the dentist' chair, always have been, possibly
because almost all British dentists are butchers and cause great pain with
their unskilled attentions; I only knew one or two who were good.
So I went unwillingly to have a cast done, and he pressed the stuff into
my mouth. I had one tooth just left of the center two in the lower
storey that was very loose in its mounting, and as he pressed the goo
in, it was forced outwards, causing
severe pain as it pressed on the nerve.
I sat there, unable to speak, unable to convey my suffering, face
sweating. At last he took the solidifying substance out again, and - the
loose tooth came with it!
It was that loose.
Next, the surgery to remove all the teeth. The surgeon told Sharon he'd
never seen such a nervous patient and gave her a calm-you-down pill to
give me on the morning of the operation.
It didn't .....
Came round (I'd insisted on the full anaesthetic) following the
extractions, and was helped out to the car, and
home, bleeding profusely. In the kitchen, I made and tried to drink a
mug of instant coffee, and automatically lit a cigarette.
Tried to, that is. It was soaked in blood....
Sharon lit one for me, trying not to laugh at my half-conscious
condition, and I really needed that nicotine that time!
I soon healed up and then the lengthy process of getting fitted with a
lower denture began.
It took weeks and weeks but he got it just right in the end, and it was no
trouble till this summer, when I had to have a new one, which cost me
about 1630 dollars; I am not covered for dental work, groan.
I hope you don't have all this nonsense with yours. But it's unlikely
they are in as bad a way as mine were.
I never knew smoking affected the gums. I have heard a doctor on radio
say that those who have no the and full dentures are in some danger of
getting mouth cancer, but he denture dentist invariably checks for this
and so far I have passed the palpitation test.
--
Ian
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