[Humour] Horrific dental experience

Kosh · Apr 15, 2021

So i went in for a ‘simple extraction’

Well, let’s just say I was in the chair for an hour and a half - covered in blood with a snapped tooth and shrapnel left in my jaw that all manner of Homebase tools failed to remove. I’ve had stitches and, you know what, I feel like shit.

Apparently I have curved roots - thus removing my teeth is like pulling up a 250 year old beech with a garden spade.

Anyone else had a similar experience... ? I ended up with two dentists in the room - at that point I was about ready to cry. They were panic stricken - I actually thought; I’m going to throw up... man! that sucked.

Actually I think I’m about to cry now.

sydney · Apr 15, 2021

yep , had an emergency extraction in Newcastle in KZN because i bit an olive pip and a molar split straight down the middle , the pain was unreal but having an 18 st Bernard Breslaw look alike shoving all manner of garden instruments into my gob to remove the offender was worse , thank **** it was my bottom row , i think the **** would have ripped my head off if it was top row , funny now looking back on it but at the time it was like a scene from saw....come back in 3 days to get the wadding out he said .......get ****ed i said ......axe murederer masquerading as a dentist.Bruised ribs for a week and 2 days pissing blood .....not good at all.

Live by the sea · Apr 15, 2021

Kosh said:
So i went in for a ‘simple extraction’

Well, let’s just say I was in the chair for an hour and a half - covered in blood with a snapped tooth and shrapnel left in my jaw that all manner of Homebase tools failed to remove. I’ve had stitches and, you know what, I feel like shit.

Apparently I have curved roots - thus removing my teeth is like pulling up a 250 year old beech with a garden spade.

Anyone else had a similar experience... ? I ended up with two dentists in the room - at that point I was about ready to cry. They were panic stricken - I actually thought; I’m going to throw up... man! that sucked.

Actually I think I’m about to cry now.

That’s why it’s so important to use a good dentist . One you trust and have used for a long time .

Kosh · Apr 15, 2021

sydney said:
yep , had an emergency extraction in Newcastle in KZN because i bit an olive pip and a molar split straight down the middle , the pain was unreal but having an 18 st Bernard Breslaw look alike shoving all manner of garden instruments into my gob to remove the offender was worse , thank **** it was my bottom row , i think the **** would have ripped my head off if it was top row , funny now looking back on it but at the time it was like a scene from saw....come back in 3 days to get the wadding out he said .......get ****ed i said ......axe murederer masquerading as a dentist.Bruised ribs for a week and 2 days pissing blood .....not good at all.

Yep the nurse had to hold my head still as they twisted the ****er about and then it snapped - low down ... the rest was agonising in spite of several injections... how the hell our ancestors did it without pain relief is incomprehensible to me ... Jesus I feel like i’ve been beaten by a cave troll whilst eating lumps of a wasps nest.

Springal · Apr 15, 2021

Nowhere near as bad as that but my first tooth extraction was a doddle.

The second involved 2 dentists, one pretty much kneeling on my chest, it broke in 2 and more 'work' to get it out. They were pretty worried but managed to just get it before they would have had to 'get further help'

clapham_gull · Apr 15, 2021

Yes last year during the lockdown. I needed two wisdom tooth removed and went for weeks with pain.

When the dentists opened I was first in the queue, but unfortunately the anaesthetic didn't work properly on the bottom tooth. The infection can basically stop the pathway to the nerve.

They were too far gone to stop - the alternative would have been to send me to A&E, which was complex at the time obviously.

So they held me down and went for it. It took about 15 minutes to get it out. Every few minutes they allowed me have a breather

I was so pumped with local anaesthetic at the end I asked whether I would need to come back for the other removal.

"We've done it"

I didn't feel a thing.

Kosh · Apr 15, 2021

Live by the sea said:
That’s great by it’s so important to use a good dentist . One you trust and have used for a long time .

This was our dentist of around five years or so - usually pretty good ... I guess things go wrong ... I was just lying there thinking the toothache wasn’t this bad - lol and (yes) why me ? Whilst trying to be polite and manly ... ha !

Kosh · Apr 15, 2021

clapham_gull said:
Yes last year during the lockdown. I needed two wisdom tooth removed and went for weeks with pain.

When the dentists opened I was first in the queue, but unfortunately the anaesthetic didn't work properly on the bottom tooth. The infection can basically stop the pathway to the nerve.

They were too far gone to stop - the alternative would have been to send me to A&E, which was complex at the time obviously.

So they held me down and went for it. It took about 15 minutes to get it out. Every few minutes they allowed me have a breather

I was so pumped with local anaesthetic at the end I asked whether I would need to come back for the other removal.

"We've done it"

I didn't feel a thing.

Jesus - I suddenly feel better.

Surely you cried ? Screamed or both? ... if not, sodding well done!

Lyndhurst 14 · Apr 15, 2021

I had to have an apicoectomy which is done when a root canal treatment has failed. I really had no idea what was involved but said they could go ahead. It was really brutal even with the anaesthetic and I just wanted it to stop, which it didn't for about 10 minutes. It felt like some of the worst pain I had ever experienced and I can't believe it was carried out correctly but at least it went when the procedure finished. Somebody at work said as it was in New York I should sue but I was just glad to be out of that damn dentists chair.

So you have my sympathy and hope you are OK now

Wrong-Direction · Apr 15, 2021

I paid extra for a specialist to split the root of a tooth and then try and pull it out, I'm sure he had his leg up on the table for more leverage at one point

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Brok · Apr 15, 2021

Kosh said:
So i went in for a ‘simple extraction’

Well, let’s just say I was in the chair for an hour and a half - covered in blood with a snapped tooth and shrapnel left in my jaw that all manner of Homebase tools failed to remove. I’ve had stitches and, you know what, I feel like shit.

Apparently I have curved roots - thus removing my teeth is like pulling up a 250 year old beech with a garden spade.

Anyone else had a similar experience... ? I ended up with two dentists in the room - at that point I was about ready to cry. They were panic stricken - I actually thought; I’m going to throw up... man! that sucked.

Actually I think I’m about to cry now.

Five minute job, obviously.

BNthree · Apr 15, 2021

Not quite as horrific as the OP but I had to have one of my rear molars removed. For all the high tech gizmos, electronic chair, etc in the end the dentist had his knee on my chest tugging the tooth with a pair of pliers. Made me think it was quite a similar scene to a dentists 150 years ago!

Kosh · Apr 15, 2021

Lyndhurst 14 said:
I had to have an apicoectomy which is done when a root canal treatment has failed. I really had no idea what was involved but said they could go ahead. It was really brutal even with the anaesthetic and I just wanted it to stop, which it didn't for about 10 minutes. It felt like some of the worst pain I had ever experienced and I can't believe it was carried out correctly but at least it went when the procedure finished. Somebody at work said as it was in New York I should sue but I was just glad to be out of that damn dentists chair.

So you have my sympathy and hope you are OK now

Wow - again that sounds horrific... glad you recovered.

Thanks - I had to drive home which was interesting... ermmm borderline dangerous. Actually it’s the first time I’ve been grateful for a face mask, as I walked through town to my car hiding my swollen jaw and drool...

They were like; are you okay? (errrmm no I’m not really) but I HAD to get out of there ... £100 lighter too ... paying for torture really isn’t my bag !!

Kosh · Apr 15, 2021

BNthree said:
Not quite as horrific as the OP but I had to have one of my rear molars removed. For all the high tech gizmos, electronic chair, etc in the end the dentist had his knee on my chest tugging the tooth with a pair of pliers. Made me think it was quite a similar scene to a dentists 150 years ago!

Exactly - they had smooth radio on in the background, as if I was going to humming along to Air Supply - I was thinking ****ing Anthrax would be more fitting.

Don Tmatter · Apr 15, 2021

Kosh said:
Yep the nurse had to hold my head still as they twisted the ****er about and then it snapped - low down ... the rest was agonising in spite of several injections... how the hell our ancestors did it without pain relief is incomprehensible to me ... Jesus I feel like i’ve been beaten by a cave troll whilst eating lumps of a wasps nest.

Brings back memories of a similar experience I had at a dental practice in HH, it was used as a dental school for Dentists over from Nigeria (for us NHS patients anyway, private patients had the practice owner)

Bry Nylon · Apr 15, 2021

Kosh said:
So i went in for a ‘simple extraction’

Well, let’s just say I was in the chair for an hour and a half - covered in blood with a snapped tooth and shrapnel left in my jaw that all manner of Homebase tools failed to remove.

Now filed under: Things I wish I'd never read.

mune ni kamome · Apr 15, 2021

I had a similar experience with a “simple” extraction at the dental surgery in Sainsbury’s Rustington. My usual lady dentist couldn’t pull it out. Tooth started breaking up. Male dentist was called for more strength. No luck, so they decided to split it in situ to see if that would be easier so they drilled it to split it in half. 2 years on now and bits are still working their way out. Luckily there’s no pain

Theatre of Trees · Apr 15, 2021

Kosh said:
So i went in for a ‘simple extraction’

Well, let’s just say I was in the chair for an hour and a half - covered in blood with a snapped tooth and shrapnel left in my jaw that all manner of Homebase tools failed to remove. I’ve had stitches and, you know what, I feel like shit.

Apparently I have curved roots - thus removing my teeth is like pulling up a 250 year old beech with a garden spade.

Anyone else had a similar experience... ? I ended up with two dentists in the room - at that point I was about ready to cry. They were panic stricken - I actually thought; I’m going to throw up... man! that sucked.

Actually I think I’m about to cry now.

Yes, twice.

First time was way back in 1989 when a tooth had to come out due to an abcess. What was to be a routine extraction turned into a 70 minute tug of war due to exactly the same problem as yours, a twisted root. Tooth broke four times but thankfully the guy just had enough left to hold onto to get the rest of it out. Thankfully made a little easier by a very cute dental assistant in one of those white uniforms who dropped something on the floor and bent over to pick it up. The view is still firmly imprinted on my mind after 30 years.

Second time involved a broken crown during the mid 00s. This one was slow as dentist did not have much to work with in the first place and thus took about 45 minutes.

What gets me is they try to have a conversation with you whilst all manner of implements are stuck in your mouth and somehow understand what you are saying.

Dentist: So how did it break again?
Me: Ooov ploongth hoofboo?
D: What position do you play?
Me: ongoo
D: Diving at somebody's feet?
Me; Yoough

Harry Wilson's tackle · Apr 15, 2021

Kosh said:
So i went in for a ‘simple extraction’

Well, let’s just say I was in the chair for an hour and a half - covered in blood with a snapped tooth and shrapnel left in my jaw that all manner of Homebase tools failed to remove. I’ve had stitches and, you know what, I feel like shit.

Apparently I have curved roots - thus removing my teeth is like pulling up a 250 year old beech with a garden spade.

Anyone else had a similar experience... ? I ended up with two dentists in the room - at that point I was about ready to cry. They were panic stricken - I actually thought; I’m going to throw up... man! that sucked.

Actually I think I’m about to cry now.

I had exactly the same. Molar snapped during extraction and the dentist had to dig it out and stitch the hole. It healed up.

Curiously, I couldn't feel any pain owing to the local anaesthetic

But it was a bit disconcerting having a bloke sweating and tugging at somethin in my face so hard it was stretching my neck vertebrae, while he braced himself by shoving a knee into my chest :lolol:

Anyway, here is some light entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjIL3fDxSZQ

And here is something a little more lengthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xBJERznOgA

GT49er · Apr 15, 2021

My last wisdom tooth was extracted by a rather attractive little lady dentist in Edinburgh, many years ago. The poor lass had a real struggle and worked up quite a sweat. She had to clamber all over me to get enough leverage, and finished up kneeling on my chest.

I rather enjoyed it .............................

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