Most painful part of a trip to the Dentist's office

[DS1]

[yorkiemommie1]

1. the bill

before the school district took my benefits i used to get no bill from the dentist. now i am self insured w/ delta but their ind. policies are not as good as the group policy i had w/ them.

[yvr girl]

2. The bill?

I like having a health plan.

[DS1]

3. I remember those days

:puffpiece:

[Jeebo]

4. I voted "none of the above"...

... because the question is completely moot. It's a "How often do you beat your wife?" sort of question. That's because the last several times I went to a dentist and had some fairly extensive oral surgery, there was NO pain. As a matter of fact, the experiences were actually FUN because of all the drugs they gave me. Laughing gas, intravenous sedation, and local anesthetic (lydocaine, I think).

Ron

[DS1]

7. Or, instead of poo-pooing my question from your sedated high-horse

you could've thought back to trips that did involve some sort of discomfort, be it in the patient's chair or the waiting room, or not answered at all.

Thanks for contributing

[Langis]

5. I love the Dentist...

I don't quite know why, I find it relaxing. Even the drilling and scraping.... it's strange.

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. The music.

:scared:

[DS1]

11. You know, I was laughing to myself because just before the Dentist

came in the room to start drilling, the music from the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs started playing

...here I am, stuck in the middle with you

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Wow.

Nothing makes me more nervous than the sound of "Saturday in the Park" or "Baker Street" or "Islands in the Stream".... JUST because they remind me of the fucking dentist.

[Nikia]

8. Only had the needle for my wisdom teeth

I chose not to get a shot for my first cavity which was drilled, but not deeply. After not going to the dentist for a few years, I had a few cavities. For those I had air abraision done and chose not to have a needle either. In both cases, the needle would have hurt more than the work done on the cavities. Some of the shots in my mouth for my wisdom were quite painful.

[trof]

9. Having a tooth pulled tomorrow.

I am so low I'm looking up at snakes' bellies.
Damn I hate this.
:-(

[hickman1937]

10. I need more choices.

Like the night before, trying to sleep when you know you have to go. Or the moment before they stick the needle into the jaw joint, and you know that not only is that the most painful stick, but it's going to hurt for days after when you move your jaw.

[tammywammy]

12. The hook shaped scraper

on the back (inside) of your bottom teeth. That's the part I hate. Otherwise, not a problem. The dentist usually gives the gas, rub of a local and then the needle, so that's never a problem.

Plus the lady that cleans my teeth listens to classical music, so that helps me relax.

[DS1]

14. Never had gas, Dr. today said I could probably go without novacaine

I declined, wimped out, which is a good thing. He only saw a tiny pinhole cavity, said he could get it out in 3 to 4 seconds. I got the needle. He did his 3 to 4 seconds, then another 3 to 4 seconds, then another, and another and another and another and some more.

Turns out it was a lot deeper than he thought.

[mac56]

15. Expensive pain.

The bill, of course.

[SOteric]

16. I'd have to say it was the time the dentist cut away my gum tissue

in a part of my mouth where he'd forgotten the Novocaine.

[mcscajun]

17. The bill.

Absolutely the bill.

Hurts more now that I'm not employed.

[valis]

18. I may be nuts, but I love going to the dentist...

[trof]

22. No "may be". You are.

whew

[REP]

19. Having an Extraction/3-Root Root Canal on the Same Day

Kids! don't try this at home!

[tammywammy]

21. I'm scared of the root canal

uggh, not a walk in the park at all.

I did have all 4 wisdom teeth removed at once, but I was knocked out.

[NorthernSpy]

20. the tongue harpoon

That sharp thing they scrape teeth with. I have trouble remembering to keep my tongue back.

Never had anything drilled.

I also hate the x-ray machine, because I don't trust it.

[DS1]

23. I like watching the teeth scraping, I like watching all the nasties

busting free. The drill gets to me because there's something wrong about watching smoke leave my mouth