Yesterday I suffered the Dental Appointment from Hell. I had been looking forward to the worst, and I was not disappointed.
It was 1 hour and 45 minutes in the dentist’s chair with two dentists and a nurse buggering about inside my mouth. First they had to slice away a bridge using a tungsten carbide disc and this took about 45 minutes. Then they spent the next hour trying to an extract a rotten tooth that had been supporting one end of the bridge. This stubbornly refused to budge, and the dentists were taking turns to get a purchase on it and tug it from its moorings. Half way through they set up a large cooling fan. (This wasn’t for me, it was for them as they were now breaking into a sweat!)
The tooth progressively broke up into three bits, leaving the roots. The three good ladies (it is an all-female dental practice) then had to resort to cutting away some gum, and even that wasn’t enough: they had to cut away some bone as well before the two roots threw in the towel and came out. During this delightful procedure they had to give me several shots of local anaesthetic three times during the operation.
I returned home for an hour’s rest before embarking upon my afternoon school transport runs.
My evening dinner was soup and pain killers.
This morning I was well healed and relatively pain free, and (better still) I only had to pay £43.60 so .. let's hear it for the ladies of the Pickering Dental Health Practice!
1 comment:
Holy Hell! I would have told them to knock me out cold!
Glad to hear that you are healing.
When my hub had his wisdom teeth taken out,(he had 6!), when he woke up his chest was sore and he couldn't figure it out. When he talked to the assistant a few days later she said that's because the dentist had his knee on his chest while he was trying to yank his teeth out!
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