Dentists .. love or hate relationship (7)

Posted by chatterbox on Mon 23 May 11, 11:47 AM to chatterbox's blog.

Been to the dentist this morning to have a temp cap fitted to a tooth I broke a few weeks ago .

I havent needed to have any work done to my teeth for 20 years as they are fine so I was a bit nervous as I was told they have to drill away alot of the tooth

So there I am in the chair, shaking a bit , first my mouth is numbed .. not paintful, then 30 mins of drilling, pull pushing and finally fit the cap.

I come away feeling floaty.. just like that nice subby floaty feeling you get.

So I can honestly say .. I LOVE the Dentist

but what about you ??? do you/dont you ...

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23 May 11, 11:59 AM Sissy_girl UK(M), 4 yrs	Legalised torture in my view , but don't say a word to the dentist . In fact I know my dentist that well , when I get there , i'm met with ... Hello Cicely , come in , sit down , lie back , open wide , you know the drill Cicely by name & sisserly by nature He [or she] , who is afraid to pick up the dice will never throw a six . I am one of the few who lives what's called .....the Lowlife
23 May 11, 12:25 PM Caracal UK(SS), 5 yrs	Every time I smile, I love all my dentists. I used to be phobic (with good cause) but now just sit in the chair, close my eyes and let them get on with whatever without a flinch. All my teeth are natural with no gaps and although not as white as they once were (tea, tobacco and red wine plus being 53), they are almost even thanks to a great deal of work in childhood. But the one who made it easiest was the Irish one with the sparkly blue eyes - didn't close my eyes when I saw him. The nice lady with the whip. The next adventure? Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent - Hannah Arendt. We call it play but it isn't a game.
23 May 11, 1:16 PM Litany UK(E), 11 yrs	mine was trained by the polish secret service , but she has the sexiest pair of nurses evah , so thats a distraction "Litany, a poncy show-off with wit, a camera, and his own teeth swoon" Fen "You have some strange taste in music" Me "If I didn't, I wouldn't be half as interesting" New and Revamped ttp://www.synthetiklens.com
23 May 11, 2:32 PM Shypeachybottom UK, 20 mths	I had a Scottish dentist for many years who was wonderful. His name was Dr Risk (how brilliant is that!) and he would tell the filthiest jokes, typically when my mouth was wedged open with his instruments and I couldn't respond or even laugh. Unfortunately I moved away and it isn't practical to fly back to see him A good friend has recommended a local dental practice which gets good reviews. Now I just need to work my courage up to go there - Dr Risk was used to all my foibles and fears and hyper sensitive teeth which need extra doses of painkiller and anaesthetic, and I am just worried about the pain & aggro I will have to go through "training up" a new dentist.. So I used to love mine, and now I am in complete denial that I need to use a new one & (somewhat) terrified in the meantime There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he turns out to be, someone to watch over me I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood, I know I could always be good, to one who'll watch over me (Ella Fitzgerald)
23 May 11, 2:37 PM relaxed1 UK(BR), 6 yrs	I loved having my last crown fitted. Despite having oodles of anaesthetic, it didn't numb the area, so I felt the drilling in its entirety. When I told the dentist afterwards, he was horrified, telling me that he could have used boatloads more anaesthetic. I smiled and told him it was a bit of a nostalgia trip, back to the 'drill and fill' days when the dentist ruined my teeth, when anaesthetic injections and fluoridated tap water where a lifetime away. And now I need some more root canal work. Bring it on, I say. "A man who does not think for himself does not think at all." - Oscar Wilde "If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
23 May 11, 11:11 PM DarkCountess UK(SG), 5 yrs	I went to my dentist two weeks ago for a six monthly check up. I have been suffering intermittent toothache for a month.After the check up, polish and clean and 3 xray's and two small fillings, she could find nothing wrong. That cost me £47. Today, my teeth were screaming! The dentist fitted me in as an emergency, gave me two injections (which did'nt kill the pain) and drilled a tooth. Eeeek, my head slid down and landed on the seat. My legs shot up in the air! She found a really infected tooth! She cleaned it out and gave me a temporary filling. I now have to go back for root canal treatment and the cost for that is now £90. Ah well, I suppose it's better than losing the tooth!
24 May 11, 7:58 PM syndeetoo UK(WC), 6 yrs	I had a total jaw reconstruction and three implants. My dentist finally gave me my new teeth which I could eat with on Valentine's day 4 years ago, so I can twooly say I love my dentist. I'd rather go to my dentist than a lying, egocentric vacant uneducated untrustworthy cunt of a hairdresser any day of the week. Never met a good hairdresser, had a few (in the unknowing sense) dentists though.