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 emsz
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Well
Just got back from dentist after "we'd better fill that just in case". Not a happy bunny, the injections were bloody painful, it cost £80 for a White filling. WTF? My teeth are White why would I want a metal filling? the drill made my palms all sweaty and my toes curl and my mouths all numb on one side and feels all swollen and droopy bet I look like a right bus ******

Mouths going to feel numb for at LEAST 4-5 hours!!

Grumpy


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:03 pm
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lucky bugger- heavy energy drink consumption in the early nineties left me with a mouth-full of metal

EDIT - refrained from joke regarding feeling a little prick


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:06 pm
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Has my first one the other day.
Did not believe the guy for a while.
Was pretty painless though.
MTFU
J.


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:06 pm
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Oooh, I love getting fillings. The taste, mmmmhhh!

I had a 14 year break from the dentist. I was ecstatic when she said I needed 2.

'Do you want white or metal, sir?'

'how noticable is the metal?'

'You've got 2 already!'

'Ahhhh, metal then!'


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:10 pm
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I hate dentists after being scarred for life as a kid.

I had to take my Eldest Daughter on Wednesday to have an extraction. It was horrid.


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:12 pm
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Yeah... but metal ones... yeuck.

* Unsightly
* Mercury poisoning
* Electric shocks when biting on tin foil (apparently)

Have one small white filling.


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:13 pm
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yeah you get to tickle metal ones with your fork when you're eating. dzzzzz, dzzzzzzzz.


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:16 pm
 jhw
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metal ones last way, way longer


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:22 pm
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Not forgetting the fun you have trying to drink the red mouthwash they give you with half your lips not working!


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:25 pm
 emsz
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I tried to have a cup of tea but I was just dribbling over myself LOL

Does it hurt when the jab wears off?


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:38 pm
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>Just got back from dentist after "we'd better fill that just in case". <

Too bad - you should have let it develop into root canal treatment - then you'd really have something to whinge about 😉


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:40 pm
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i had five white fillings @ £290 as a halfway be free metal ones on the NHS and paying fully private...

also had them without injections - one was must unpleasant during drilling... the expensive one..

think £80 is cheap - private places charge loads more

lead amalgum filling also causes stack emission issues for crematoriums... 😆


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 3:46 pm
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Does it hurt when the jab wears off?

Like a b#####d*

HTH 😀


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 4:03 pm
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Does it hurt when the jab wears off?

Like a b#####d*

HTH 😀


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 4:03 pm
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Does it hurt when the jab wears off?

Like a b#####d*

HTH 😀

*It won't


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 4:03 pm
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emsz - Member
I tried to have a cup of tea but I was just dribbling over myself LOL

Does it hurt when the jab wears off?

Shouldn't do if it was not too big a filling and you have a decent dentist.

Some of my fillings are rather large and once the jab wore off they felt a bit "bruised" but it soon passed.


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 4:18 pm
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Dunno what happened up there ^

Re filling. Expect pain.


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 4:33 pm
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emsz - I hope I don't sound too unsympathetic, but in the 1960' and 1970's when I was a child the dentist would fill children's teeth on a regular basis as they got paid per filling and/or extraction, children were seen as fair game.

Like Lowey, I had several bad experiences with dentists and am still paying the price now with a implant that went wrong. That was £2,000 and has cost £600 to put right.

You'll be alright by tomorrow. Take a couple of painkillers.


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 4:52 pm
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Yep, agree with bunnyhops comment on dentists drilling for gold in the 60's, 70's & 80's! I'm living proof of those idiots!! (mind you I didn't help with all the Spangles either!)

Now just had a 'bridge' fitted - smugly thought i was covered on Denplan until the receptionist hit me with a completely unexpected £300 bill - wtf is insurance for!!!


 
Posted : 03/12/2010 5:38 pm

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