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The Dentist (scary) :P  [message #10253] Fri, 09 May 2003 00:55 Go to next message
thirdfencepost is currently offline  thirdfencepost

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Ok everyone I went ot the dentist tonigth because I had to get a cavity filled. It was all painful and stuff.. My dentist really needs to learn tht more is always better when it comes to numbing stuff *sigh* I have learned to isdentify the dentists drills you have the one that makes the high pitched buzzing sound like owwies. Then you have the one that shakes all your teeth loose. (I odn't like that one it hurts).

So like I was thinking while he was workin on my teeth. See I really like my detist but I hate goign to see him. So i was wodnering how many dentists are secretly really nice and just have an ucky job??



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icon9.gif Re: The Dentist (scary) :P  [message #10255 is a reply to message #10253] Fri, 09 May 2003 01:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
brian! is currently offline  brian!

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Wow, it's been a long time since i've been. the last time i visited one, they had to pull my wisdom teeth. mine had to come out, but they weren't ready to. he had to put his knee on my chest to pull them. then he gave me a perscription for the pain, i was allergic to it. i really don't plan on going back. the funny part of the visit was that the x-ray machine attacked me. heheheh.

Brian



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Re: The Dentist (scary) :P  [message #10256 is a reply to message #10253] Fri, 09 May 2003 01:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Actually, Andy, my dentist for years (my first and only dentist, in fact, until he retired), and his wife, are close family friends. They retired to Martha's Vineyard (an island off the coast of Massachusetts) several years ago, and we miss them a lot. In fact, my father called them today, and they want us to come for a visit sometime during the summer. It's a good 3-4 hour journey by road and ferry, but we might just take them up on it (if there's one thing I want my father to do, it's to go on a whale watch; and there are plenty that set sail from there!). As far as his dentistry skills are concerned, he was always as gentle as possible, and had a quite reassuring manner. The dentist he sold his practice to when he retired still has a lot to learn!



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Drilling isn't nice... :/  [message #10257 is a reply to message #10253] Fri, 09 May 2003 01:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
setras is currently offline  setras

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But hopefully it'll stop hurting soon. And you just might be onto something there with dentists being nice people with ucky jobs Smile

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Setras



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icon12.gif The Attack of the Killer X-Ray Machine  [message #10258 is a reply to message #10255] Fri, 09 May 2003 01:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Pretty much the same thing happened to me when I had my wisdom teeth out. The dentist prescribed Percasite (sp?) for the pain. It made me so spaced out it actually scared me. After only two doses, I switched to extra-strength Tylenol (it may not have helped the pain as much, but I didn't feel anywhere near as out of it).



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icon13.gif The Nummer Shot  [message #10259 is a reply to message #10253] Fri, 09 May 2003 01:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
smith is currently offline  smith

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"Open wide,smith......This won't hurt" as I tear holes in the arms of the horror chair with my fingers. NO!! It doesn't hurt HIM as he stands there laughing "Bwhahahahah". That nummer shot, the one that goes right onto your jaw and down to your toes makes this horrid noise like ""crrruuunncchhh" Major ouchies !! Then, you try to drink and it runs down your face like some lunatic...
And that huge heavy thing they flop across your chest as they x-ray you (they run out the door and hide) I think that's why I have lapses of brain function sometimes.....And then you try to get that cardboard x-ray thing out of your mouth with your tongue......gag!
I even hate the polishing drill thingie !
And that gunk when they have to make an impression for braces.
And he asks you stuff, knowing you can't answer.
And looking up his nose the entire time.....whoaaaaa !!

Dentists......Steve Martin in "Little Shop of Horrors"
Good people perhaps.........totally ucky job!!
icon5.gif Why Wisdom Teeth??  [message #10260 is a reply to message #10258] Fri, 09 May 2003 01:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
smith is currently offline  smith

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Why do they call them wisdom teeth? Are you smarter after they are yanked out of your poor mouth?
Re: The Nummer Shot  [message #10262 is a reply to message #10259] Fri, 09 May 2003 01:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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HAHAHHAHAHHA Great smith I love it
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~AndY



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icon6.gif Re: Why Wisdom Teeth??  [message #10275 is a reply to message #10260] Fri, 09 May 2003 04:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I think they're the last to "come in", supposedly when you're old enough to be wise. So you've got 8 of 'em, right? Those of us with some removed can blame "it" on them!
Anyone wanna hear my horror wisdom tooth story??  [message #10276 is a reply to message #10255] Fri, 09 May 2003 05:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Didn't think you would Razz
icon7.gif Come on, just hop in and share :) Mine's inside  [message #10280 is a reply to message #10276] Fri, 09 May 2003 08:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
setras is currently offline  setras

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I've had 2 wisdom teeths removed, from my lower jaw, I think. The second one went without problem, but for the first one the dentist was kind enough to stitch the inside of my cheek in when stitching up the cut he had made to remove my tooth. This ofcourse resulted in me barely being able to open my mouth, which made eating a bit difficult for about a week, until the stitches were removed. Thank god for puréed soups Wink

Unfortunately I didn't know anything was out of place with the stitching until long afterwards when after the removal of the second tooth when despite the stitches I was able to open my mouth and eat more or less normally...

Setras



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icon6.gif How about braces??  [message #10283 is a reply to message #10253] Fri, 09 May 2003 09:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
smith is currently offline  smith

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Anyone wear braces? I did in junior high. They were blue hahaha! I got really good with them and could shoot the little tiny rubber bands pretty accurately across the the classroom.Just when you could stand them, you have to get them tightened......and you always had food stuck in them.

Once, I was out to dinner with my parents and I got a shrimp tail stuck in the front. We had to go to the emeregency room to get the stupid thing out. And once, I got stuck in Jerimiah's fur when we were wrestling.Yucko !! I wore the retainer for like one week and then threw that sucker out. I think orthodontists are much more sadistic than regular dentists.
Re: How about braces??  [message #10293 is a reply to message #10283] Fri, 09 May 2003 10:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
david in hong kong is currently offline  david in hong kong

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Oh, this thread is just TOO much.... I love it.

Blue braces, smith?? On an episode of "Sex and the City" (my favorite TV show) one young girl had sapphire ones...cool. Never had them myself, altho I should have. I have a little gap in front that makes me have to go back and nibble twice on each row when eating corn on the cob...

My dentist here in Hong Kong is a very nice older Jewish Grannie. All her patients call her "Bubbie". She's gentle when she can, but strong as an ox when needed.

The dentist I'll go back to in Thailand has his office in the same compound as the US Armed Forces. You have to show 2 kinds of ID to get past the barricades...and that was before 9/11...God only knows what I'll have to go thru to see him these days!



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Yup, been there, done that...  [message #10297 is a reply to message #10283] Fri, 09 May 2003 11:11 Go to previous message
setras is currently offline  setras

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...though I was lucky enough to have the type of braces that you only keep on during the night. This weird metal thing in my mouth and a rubber band going behind my neck to keep it in place. And then they kept making the rubber band shorter. Luckily it's all over now Smile

I also have this plastic mould-thing made after my teeth... I had to keep it on my upper teeth to keep me from biting my teeth together while I sleep. I Don't know if it's good for anything else than collecting saliva during the nigt, though...

It's weird how much stuff people want to put in mouths all the time. Like braces, my plastic thingy, toothbrushes, toothpaste... which reminds, me I better go brush my teeth... Smile

Setras



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