[toreesi]

How are you when it comes to going to the Dentist? I had a bad time with one when I was young & I still find it very hard to go & get work done on my teeth.. Sounds strange but it's true.. Just wondering if I'm that different than most people...

[himecthekWiff]

Me too.

When I was a kid the dentist filled every molar in my head. I had no cavities - just deep angles on my teeth. He said I was a candidate for cavities and my parents bought it.

Naturally my fillings fell out as my teeth matured and I've been to the dentist way more than the average guy. Many bad experiences. Many dentists. Root canals in every molar.

I now have a good dentist and have all caps on all of my molars. I pre-med with a couple halcion and a couple vicoden that my dentist prescribes.
(Even for Cleaning!) I now go every three months for cleaning and it has really helped me fight the gum disease and keep the teeth I have left.

And if he didn't prescribe - I'd find another dentist that would!

I must say that dentistry has come a long way since I was a kid.

[womberte]

I've had a LOT of dental work done. As a kid, I remember a dentist drilling out a tooth [I believe it was a baby tooth] and then filling it with tapped-in lead foil.

In the USAF, you were ordered to see the base dentist every time you had a Permanent Change of Duty Station. Of course, this guy would be right out of dental school, so he'd drill-out all your existing fillings and put his own in... and after several PCDS, you had some humongous fillings!

They did an experimental Flouride treatment on me that took most of a whole day, and that seemed to have hardened my teeth considerably.

I can recall the old strinbg-and-pulley drills, where the noise would be very loud, and the drill and your tooth would get so HOT it'd start to actually smoke! Then the air-turbine drills with their penetrating whine... and now the newer laser and electromagnetic turbines... very, very fast, but the dentists are apt to get "drill-happy" and take more tooth away than with the older systems.

I pulled one of my own wisdom teeth [back when I was Mr. Military Macho] when the little Japanese dentist was literally in my lap with both knees, and trying to break it free. I reached up and said "Gimme that S.O.B." [as best I could say, what with all the stuff in my mouth] and grasping the extractor pliers that were already clamped on the tooth, broke it loose and took it out. The dentist almost fainted!

I was stationed with a guy [Eddie Petz] who'd get all nervous and start going crazy a couple of days before a dental appointment.... which was really weird, as he was about the most rough-and-tumble, tough-azzed guy I'd ever met... he could hunt tigers with a willow switch. I'd have gone anywhere with him on my team ...but just the thought of a dentist would send him into a genuine, full-goose-looney panic.

[megasprut]

I've only had one filling myself; my top two front teeth were too close together, so they were hard to clean. For some reason, since I got a filling in one of them, it's far easier; maybe the dentist took off some of the enamel or something, I don't know. I didn't think you could though.
I'm usually fine at the dentist. We found out that our last dentist had been done for neglecting his patients and some had to have about thirty different treatments to fix their teeth... :shock Fortunately I was all right; my sister had to have braces and she was almost too old for it, but they seem to have worked.

[ANCETPYNCTEXT]

Speaking of which I have an appointment this afternoon. I'm beginning to think it would be easier to get them all out and wear dentures. Dentist used to really tortue you but much improvements. The shots is what I hate especially if you get a dentist that kills you giving you one. My dentist is very good at giving you a shot. Actually I think I had less trouble before I started going to the dentist. I think all that cleaning aint that great but I do get it done every 3 months because I get plaque build up very quickly. Getting a splint put on my two front teeth today as they are loose. Amazing the things they can do these days. Used to, it was just snatch them out.

[h4z1XBI7]

i had 4 teeth taken out and had to wear a brace. but it was ok. was amazed when he pulled them, it felt like he was pushing them UP into my head and they just fell out, as oposed to pulling them down like you would expect.

getting a filling tho, i hate that. i hate when he gives you the injection. and the noise! ugh.

i havent been tot he dentist in about 2 yrs tho, i really should go.

MJ

[ANCETPYNCTEXT]

A lot of patients are up a creek around here as one very popular dentist just got his license suspended for writing hundreds of prescriptions that a dentist shouldn't be even writing prescriptions for and then he was filling some of his own prescriptions at a drug store so the pharmacy put the feds on it and he's in big doo. I went to him a couple times and was very dis-satisfied with him so changed.

[lodsemelf]

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[Kristoferson]

I hate going....i wait until i HAVE to go, not when i need to go!

[megasprut]

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