I wasn't sure where to put this so if you want to move it to the appropriate forum DP feel free to.

You know...I'm not sure who here likes going to the dentist but I for one do not. I went a month ago to get some cavities filled which was no biggy then had to go back again yesterday and man yesterday was the worst day I had in a long time. I had to get all four of my wisdom teeth pulled ...I mean it wasn't bad during the procedure since I was on the laughing gas and numbed up big time with novicane and all I felt was pressure.

After the procedure they told me a few things what to eat and what not but I was still kind of out of it from just getting off the laughing gas and so I told my mom I did need to get a little something. She dropped me off home and went and got my prescriptions filled that I needed, especially the pain killers (which work like a charm!).

Well I made the mistake of having my mom get a frosty from Wendey's on the way home and about an hour or so after eating it I ended up puking from about 6pm to 11pm last night...god damn I felt like shit that whole time.

If any of you haven't had your wisdom teeth pulled...I suggest you guys get it done soon if you don't you can have bad complications later on if you wait to long. At least that's what my dentist told me. There wasn't really any complications during the procedure except for the upper right tooth. When he pulled it he tore a very small section of the gums around that tooth. I don't remember what he said for the reasoning it tore.

Anyways end of my little rant here...so anyone else hate going to the dentist, or even enjoy it?

I've had 4 teeth pulled out but they were to make room for my widom teeth, which have since come in fine.

I was the same with the novacaine, my dentist shot me full of so much numb-juice that I didn't feel a thing execept when he hit a nerve with the needle and I got a zap up the right ride of my nose that made my eyes water. Then he just picked up his stainless steel plyers, olanted one hand on my face and ripped the teeth out with the other. They made a crazy shlup-sound too. And then he had the sick humour to ask me to rinse my mouth out with that funky pink-water shit, which of course poured straight out of my numb mouth and down my chest.

Fucking dentists.

I've never had my wisdom teeth pulled, but once I had to have a root canal and a crown done to one of my front teeth...

With NO novacaine or pain-killer of any kind.

The tooth was so infected and impacted that the dentist asked me if I even wanted a shot, since the nerves were probably numb anyway, or should he just start drilling until I felt something. I said to start drilling, and he kept asking "do you feel anything yet," and I kept saying "huh-uh."

Finally he told me he had drilled clear through the tooth and was beginning the draining process. I never felt a fuckin' thing.

Damn you were lucky not to feel anything like that for a root canal. I've been told that's the worst thing anyone can go through as far as going to the dentist.

Root canals aren't that bad, I've had two of em' and people make them out to be torture. The worst for me was the 2nd of three teeth (my wisdom teeth were a cake walk in comparrison) I had pulled, and the roots broke off in my jaw when the tooth exploded under all the pressure of pulling. They had to cut my jawbone open to pick them out. The last tooth I had pulled was kind of painful as well, mainly because I had sat there for about 25 minutes waiting for the Dentist to finish pulling out my wifes wisdom teeth to get to mine. By the time he got started the anesthetic started to wear off. And then I had to take care of my poor weepy wife who had never even had a cavity before, so I never really got to take a break.

I wanted to have all of them pulled out and just get dentures, but dentists seem to all get cartoon dollar $igns for pupils as soon as I open my mouth. The saddistic motherfuckers.

My wisdom-teeth-pulling experience was nothing like yours. The dentist stuck a needle in my arm, said "In about ten seconds you'll start to feel tired..." and then I woke up spitting blood.

The most traumatic part of the experience was that the hygienist looked exactly like the eye transplant doctor's assistant in Minority Report.

I've never had any problems with dentist. If you brush most of the time, the visits are usually painless. Although I must say that the water they use is kinda cold on my teeth.

My time in the dentist’s chair has mostly been alright. One of my first dentists was a former high school quarterback and current karate nut. I remember his arms to be big and flexing when he pulled out a tooth. I was around age 6-7. And like mentioned above, he put that monkey grip on my head to steady it, mashing my head down firmly into the seat back while he yanked w/ the other. And those young teeth I seem to remember them staying in better like the dentist had to really pull to get them out. Now they come on out like get me the fuck outta this nasty mouth things changed over the last 20 years in here.

Only time I had a prob was when I didn’t heed advice and refrain from smoking after an extraction. I’d like to say I thought he meant cigarettes, but you know better. I came on home and smoked a bowl before lying down. Last thing I did was spit out a blood clot before nodding off. When I woke, I had maybe 36 hours of the worst most uncomfortable pain I’d experienced up to that point in life. The kind of pain that guarantees no sleep. I’m talking about a dry socket and be fer sure to not get one.

Ouch! I always smoke after them though. The key is to not suck too hard. It's the sucking and not the smoke that does it. You have to like half-inhale, even on your bowl. And don't spit out that bloodclot. 800 mg of motrin will help the pain enough to let you sleep through just about any pain fyi allthough it makes your guts ache after a few days.

I had all my wisdom teeth pulled almost a year ago. It went fine but I was an idiot and I didn't eat anything with my pain medication. I woke up in the middle of the night with terrible stomach pains. Just moving made it hurt. Besides that I felt find by the next day (the desist said I should not go to class the day after. I don't see why because I was fine but day after but that doesn't mean I didnt take the day off anyway for the hell of it.)

wtf is a dentist?

A doctor of sorts, where you go get your teeth checked out to see if you have any cavities and what not and filled if necessary. Duh.

Note that my title says I'm from the UK, and remember that people in the UK stereotypically have bad teeth from not going to dentists, and then appreciate the joke that I made.

Yeah, for all intents and purposes, Malkie, a dentist is the guy that sells soap and deodorant. Completely irrelevant to you.

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