Re: Eating after dental work...

On Fri 16 May 2008 10:34:49p, Nexis told us...

is a strange experience!
I am, apparently, hard to numb. The dentist said it has to do with bone
density, and said that it's good to have it, but makes it harder to
numb. So, after seeing in my chart that the last attempt at fixing this
tooth resulted in 5 shots of Novocain and lots of throwing up, he tried
something new. I think it's called Marcaine? He didn't tell me until
after the needle was in that it lasts 8 or more hours! It did numb me,
for which I am grateful, but eating was not easy to do the rest of the
day! Luckily, I still feel somewhat numb, so there's no pain ;-)


kimberly


Coincidentally, a week ago I went to the dentist with a very painful tooth,
to learn that it was a very bad abscess. I've been taking an anti-
infective drug since then and Percoset as needed for pain. I went this
morning to have the tooth extracted. The dentist remarked, from looking at
the x-ray, that he had seldom seen anyone with teeth that had such long
roots. Just what I wanted to hear. :-( In any event, he may have used
that same local anesthetic on me, because it remained numb far longer than
anything else I'd experienced before. Boy, when that finally wore off
tonight I thought I'd hit the ceiling with pain, so took a dose of
Percoset, which has helped somewhat. I *wish* I was still numb! :-)

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