"Dave" wrote in message
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Simon Finnigan wrote:

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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On 17/09/2008 23:37, Derek Geldard wrote:

I know if you are *sedated* as opposed to aneasthetised they dose you
with an agent that makes you forget about the experience, and also
with an agent that makes you dis-interested in what's going on.

*BANG* -Oh he must be hammering something into my jaw.

*BANG* -Oh well.

*BANG* -Wonder what day it is, Im ever so tired.


I've had hammers, chisels and torque wrenches used on my jaws with just
a local anaesthetic, it was quite strange but not particularly
unpleasant.


I`ve threatened one dentist with being thrown out of a window if he
didn`t stop when I told him to :-) I HATE dental work, had a very bad
dentist when I was a kid who really hurt me and ever since then I just
don`t like them. but as long as they and I know I`m in charge and can
stop it I`m OK. If they try to carry on after I mumble "ow" then it gets
shouty :-)

You too. I had a similar bit of pain when I had tooth ache in one of my
upper molars. At that time the only solution was to go to Manchester
dental hospital as emergency dentists did not exists then. Master dentist
came and looked in my mouth and condemned the tooth on opposite side to
the one that was giving me pain.

Young trainee got a pair of pliers out and tried to extract first one
tooth and then went for the second one. After some time the Master came
back and asked her what the problem was. At this point, he took over after
producing an even bigger pair of pliers and tried to do an extraction.
when he failed he got an even bigger pair out and tried them. Nothing.

He then went for an even bigger pair and proceeded to break the first
tooth into 4 pieces. When he came to the second one he mentioned something
about me being a symmetrical man and broke that into 4 pieces. He then
changed to a smaller pair and extracted the 8 pieces, pushed my gums
together and sent me home.

I must has contracted a gum disease that day, as I was in pain for 6 or
more weeks after that. This experience put me off dentists for life. But
about 12 years later I got another toothache that was worse than having
the first 2 out and I explained about the pain I had to go through and he
simply packed the gum with an antibiotic. I just went into shock and bled
from the mouth for 24 hours.

having said all this, I had to have a load of work done in my teens and
found a very good dentist. Had 7 teeth out, so he put me under a GA for
that one. Had to have 3 teeth out at another time, and I didn`t see a drop
of blood. Apparently it was gushing all over the place, but he knew what I
was like and just made sure I didn`t see anything that would get me upset.

then again, after having the GA, he did wake me up by gently slapping my
face. After I`d had 3 teeth out on one side, and 4 out the other.
Apparently what I told him to do wasn`t very polite :-)