DentistsMy current dentist is called Mr Stiff.
Back when I was at university though, I had enormous pain in my jaw one morning - so bad I went as an emergency case to the uni dentist.
He took one look at the back of my mouth and said, "Ah, wisdom teeth. Impacted. They'll have to come out."
He then reached under the chair and came out with an enormous industrial (and entirely non-dental) pair of pliers, "I can do it now if you want..."
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chthonic, Thu 2 Nov 2006, 14:31)
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Well i was going to post my own story......but Mr Steve beat me to it. I had pretty much exactly the same experience: infected nerve, huge bulbous swelling in my neck. The antibiotics wouldn't work because some gland or other was blocked. I was in a lot of pain for about two weeks. Too painful to eat, too painful to sleep so I stayed off work with my head down the bog and crying.
Back to the dentist and he drilled a hole into the tooth to let it drain. Ah, the sweet caress of Novocaine! Meant I could finally eat something; never has a king-sized Pot Noodle tasted so good! But then I had an exposed nerve for about a week...
Eventually, the pain subsided and I had a root canal. Best three hundred quid I ever spent!
Though the thought of my dentist 'squeezing my gland' is something I'd rather forget...
(, Sat 4 Nov 2006, 14:06, Reply)
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