Re: Eating after dental work...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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! :-)

I feel your pain. I also have had dental work done this last couple of
weeks. I don't know what anaesthetic he used but I was numb for a while and
was very careful.


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