I Had a Tooth Pulled This Morning. Ask Me Anything

[CO Liberal]

I decided to forego the root canal and just had it pulled.

[patdem]

1. Do you miss it?

[CO Liberal]

4. No .... I Have it In My Pocket

:-)

[trof]

6. Good. Put it under your pillow tonight.

Ya never know?

[arwalden]

13. Drill A Hole Through It And Wear It On A String Around Your Neck...

... as a good luck charm. (Or to remind yourself to floss daily.)

-- Allen

[Bunny]

2. Did they give you any good drugs?

:evilgrin:

[CO Liberal]

5. Nope

:-(

[trof]

3. I'd have gone for the root canal.

Once they're gone, they're gone.
I know.

[CO Liberal]

7. I Had One Root Canal About 15 Years Ago

And about six months later, the entire tooth disintegrated. So I wound up losing it anyway.

I got my teeth from my mother's side of tha family - mostly Irish. I expect to lose them bit by bit ass I get older. My grandfather, for example, only had three teeth all the years I knew him.

[StaggerLee]

8. Is there a hole in your gum big enough to hold a cyanide tablet?

If yes then you can be a secret agent man!

*oops, meant to reply to original post.

[CO Liberal]

9. I Haven't Tried Yet

I'm trying to keep things away from it right now.

[StaggerLee]

10. Seriously, I hope you're not in too much pain

I remember getting my wisdoms pulled (one was impacted) and trying to avoid dry socket. I failed.
:(

[XEON]

11. Teeth pulled.

I had 4 teeth pulled some years ago. There was enough bleeding that I went back. The Dentist had told me not to smoke and when I caught him leaving the office he was smoking. It was 7/4 and blood does not taste good. He said don't worry. He was right.

[spotbird]

12. Do you have any extra pain medicine?

I had a rough run-in with a dehumidifier this morning and the dehumidifier won.

[CO Liberal]

15. He Didn't Give Me ANYTHING

I'm just using ibuprophen.

Sorry to hear about the dehumidifier. Try Aspercreme or Flex-All. (I used to use Thera-Gesic, but stopped when they started advertising on Limbaugh's radio pukefest.)

[spotbird]

17. There are no dehumidifier lifting warnings, I may sue.

Despite spending all day at DU this was a very boring day. Sounds like you had the same sort of experience.

[MissMillie]

14. Do you...

keep putting your tongue in the spot in your mouth the tooth used to be in?

[CO Liberal]

16. I'm Trying Not To

I don't want to mess up the scab.

[KT2000]

18. Don't know if its the Irish thing or not

but I'm Irish too and keep having to have my teeth pulled - 9 so far. It got to the point where I would get a root canal - it would go bad and then have to have it pulled. Now I too forgo the root canal.


Are you going to get a bridge?

[CO Liberal]

19. I Think So

Once it heals, I'm going back to the dentist so he plan out what he's gonna do.

I also have a lower denture that's over 18 years old - it doesn't fit any more, so I have to get it replaced. Thanks to my Irish ancestry, I had most of my molars and wisdom teeth removed about 20 years ago.

[davidinalameda]

20. did they give you good drugs?

or just novacaine