[Closed] Root canal treatment...

I fell asleep during my last one. 😯

The very nice dentist (new lady) advised music and headphones for round 2 next week - 11/2 hours in the chair 😯

Hopefully round 1 has knocked the shocking pain of last 48 hrs on the head (have my posts been nowty!?!)

As above, I fell asleep in mine. Snoring woke me up with a hot young nurse giggling over me 😳 😆

Hopefully round 1 has knocked the shocking pain of last 48 hrs on the head

FFS you're no better than Hitler ......... he was a proper wimp when it came to root canal treatment too :

[i]The book, ‘Dentist of the Devil’, which chronicles the work of Hitler’s personal dentist Johannes Blaschke, has revealed how the ‘Fuehrer’ once insisted that a simple root canal work should spread over eight days as he couldn’t stand the pain.[/i]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/a-dentist-could-make-adolf-hitler-upset/article63577.ece

Yep l, not cheap is it. Then after several years the tooth breaks as its dead and dried out and you have to pay for a crown which costs even more. And then every few years you can pay to get the crown refit tied when it falls out and so the money keeps flowing. If I'd of known one tooth would of cost me well over £500 I'd f got it pulled at the start!

Or possibly looked after my teeth better

Thx for sympathy Ernie 😉 although not surprised that you got what I said wrong. 😉

The pain is/was the abscess - the treatment blessed relief in contrast

not surprised that you got what I said wrong.

I heard what you said.

What's your views on Jews communists and homosexuals btw?

Sorry Ernie not playing - put the tissues away

Well you've already asked the question [i]"have my posts been nowty!?!"[/i]

It's a well-known fact that WW2 might not have happened had Hitler not been so bad-tempered due his dire oral situation.

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how do you find this stuff! 😆

THM, you have my sympathy, abscess pain is the worst!

Even I have sympathy for you thm.

One and a half hours next week? Ooooh...

Brrrrrrrzzzzzrrrrrrmmmmmmmmrrrrrrxxxxxzzzzzz...AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.

Neck a double vodka before you go in. 😀

Cheers DD (and nick) ! 😉

actually the chair is nowt compared with the abscess pain - will be boring though, in more ways than one

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I've had one done recently £££

But I actually quite enjoyed it. I liked the engineering aspect of how the drills worked, and it felt like they were tunnelling to the other side of the world

At least now the nerve is out they can get going right away. No needle just in with the Makita and excavate. Then fill the gap. I had one that was rushed and kept getting abscess refilling as he hadn't plugged the nerve socket correctly. The chap who put it right gagged when he started drilling, as did I shortly afterwards.

Had my one and only in 1985 - cost a lot back then too. After 10 yrs repair bust and another 12 with a gap before getting my one and only (thankfully) implant done in Singapore where treatment was outstanding and much cheaper (done by a guy from Sheffield who used a top quality specialist surgeon for the post). If you need such work again I can make some recommenations in Paris for very high quality work at a lower price probably including travel / accomodation. Dentistry in the UK is fundamentally broken (we need an insurance mdoel to keep private dentists in check price wise, how many quotes did you get ?) and while I am on the subject my mother recently had an AE admission for suspected stroke and her GP says its 12 days before she can have a follow up appointment with him 😯

We are certainly price takers - especially sitting in the chair with half your face throbbing!

Like the price if a pint of milk 😉 she could have said anything as I had no idea!!

Funky - I agree actually interesting to ask what they are doing and why and she was happy to distract me and give more all the details.

Had a grumbling tooth about a year ago - dentist didn't look at the Xray and thought the nerve was dead, so no local - drilled into the root and then used a reamer to find he'd pulled out a nerve! He did comment that I must have a high pain-tolerance. Fortunately, got insurance so didn't have to pay for the privilege of having the pain inflicted.

It's usually fine once the local wears off, cos they've hacked the nerve out there's nothing left to hurt. 🙂

Bloody well hurts after you have one pulled though. I had an extraction the other week after putting up with a few years of achey shit from all round it after a root filling didn't quite work out. Had a chronic infection in there in spite of the dentist doing a perfectly decent job on the thing (got it checked by a different dentist). Antibiotics couldn't touch it so got it yanked out, then had a lovely spot of dry-socket by way of a parting gift. Way worse than almost every other toothache I've ever had, but sorted now and nearly fully healed.

On the other hand, I've got another root filled molar that is probably 75% non-orignial now, but is still chomping away just fine after well over a decade and one small refilling, so they can last, it's just the luck of the draw I think.

Human teeth are shit, I want a regenerating set of fangs like a shark instead, that'd be ace.

teamhurtmore - Member

Like the price if a pint of milk she could have said anything as I had no idea!!

Are you suggesting that the price of milk is on par with the cost of dental treatment?

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My wee brother had an absess, went to the doctors as his throat had all swollen up, the doctor looked at him as if to say what you doing here? and told him to go to the dentist. He went to the dentist and the dentist rushed him back to hospital for emergency treatment as his airways were closing and it could have killed him if it went on much longer

Ended up in hospital for 5 days.

Anyhow, no idea if this is any use to anyone. 😆 Guess the point is brush your teeth, and don't take no for an answer if you reckon there something seriously wrong!

Not enough just to brush your teeth. My dentist assures me I need this things as well:

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Your private collection gets more extraordinary Enrie but sorry you are still going to have to play with yourself - not joining in

Go NHS.
I put up with toothache pretty much constantly for about 15 years.
Our dentist retired and I heard all these stories about having to pay, so I put up with the pain. Eventually I woke up in the night with most severe pain I have had, the side of a tooth had broken off. I phoned dentists, asking if they took NHS patients, about the fith one I called said yes.

For 45 quid I got 10 trips to the dentist, and she she pulled out 4 teeth.
A year after that on boxing day I got really bad tooth ache, I phoned them
a few day after that, and I went in that afternoon and had a root filling.