Okay, I survived
Jun. 12th, 2007 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hiddenmuseThanks to a lot of Ibuprofen, a dose of Ativan and a few shots of lidocaine/epinepherine; as well as some Portishead (for the non-drilling/obnoxious noise section) and Metallica (for the obnoxiousness, to drown out the noise) - I survived the dentist's office.
Didn't get any nitrous (boo!) - but it all worked out fairly well. The only hard part was getting the injections of lidocaine. Sure, I did get the topical numbing, but the needles still hurt. When I had an injection in a part of my mouth that wasn't fully numbed, I flinched and just cried and sobbed like a damn baby.
The work itself was noisy (duh) and I've never had so many tooth impressions taken in my life. Thankfully, some wise person decided that the dental molding material could stand to be more flavorful. When I'd last had this type of work done (10 and 15 years ago - also had impressions about 5 years ago for a bite guard) the material tasted about as good as a mouthful of modeling clay. Now, the stuff the dentists are using has some decent flavors (vanilla, blueberry and mint were used today). Of course, there's no way around the stuff triggering your gag reflex when you've got a mouth full of the material on the biteplate thingy, and you're asked to bite down - and end up with the stuff oozing out and around, perilously close to your throat. Someday, they can work on that, since some of us have the world's fiercest gag reflexes.
But, the temporary crowns look good - even though they are a twee bit on the see-through side (acrylic temps will do that). It's a hell of an improvement over my prior smile, which embarrassed me to no end with the mish-mash fillings and staining around said fillings. In two weeks, I will have my porcelain/metal crowns - and my smile will look even better. Yay. :-)
Didn't get any nitrous (boo!) - but it all worked out fairly well. The only hard part was getting the injections of lidocaine. Sure, I did get the topical numbing, but the needles still hurt. When I had an injection in a part of my mouth that wasn't fully numbed, I flinched and just cried and sobbed like a damn baby.
The work itself was noisy (duh) and I've never had so many tooth impressions taken in my life. Thankfully, some wise person decided that the dental molding material could stand to be more flavorful. When I'd last had this type of work done (10 and 15 years ago - also had impressions about 5 years ago for a bite guard) the material tasted about as good as a mouthful of modeling clay. Now, the stuff the dentists are using has some decent flavors (vanilla, blueberry and mint were used today). Of course, there's no way around the stuff triggering your gag reflex when you've got a mouth full of the material on the biteplate thingy, and you're asked to bite down - and end up with the stuff oozing out and around, perilously close to your throat. Someday, they can work on that, since some of us have the world's fiercest gag reflexes.
But, the temporary crowns look good - even though they are a twee bit on the see-through side (acrylic temps will do that). It's a hell of an improvement over my prior smile, which embarrassed me to no end with the mish-mash fillings and staining around said fillings. In two weeks, I will have my porcelain/metal crowns - and my smile will look even better. Yay. :-)
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Date: 2007-06-13 11:29 am (UTC)I used to have such bad freakouts in the dental chair that my dentist had to prescribe me Valium. I'd pop one before I saw her and I'd be so blissed out by the time I got there, I barely noticed where I was ;) It was great.
I desperately need major dental work done but I can't afford it, and since I haven't had insurance in 2 years, I just keep putting it off. I'm sure my teeth are probably going to start falling out soon :P
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Date: 2007-06-13 02:17 pm (UTC)What's sad is that I had to take out a $1000 loan through a company that does health/dental financing, to pick up what my insurance wasn't.
I wish that I could put all of this off - or just ignore it - but my family history with the teeth is not a good one at all, as both parents had dentures by their 40s. :-(
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Date: 2007-06-14 02:51 am (UTC)Personally, I have had enough dental disasters to feel for anybody who has to go through that.
My stepdaughter LOVES going to the dentist. Yup, she's a weirdo!
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Date: 2007-06-22 05:42 am (UTC)i hate that stuff.
but then again, it saved my life.
...but still. dentists dont bother me.
but maybe because i know mine out of the office and he knows that if he does something wrong/ HURTS ME IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, then I will go to his house and not be very nice to him from now till forever.
glad you survived and thanks for commenting on my fan fiction :D
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Date: 2007-06-22 06:13 am (UTC)My dentist doesn't bother me - I think she's probably one of the best dentists that I've gone to - it's just the fillings or other dental work that makes me uncomfortable!
And you're quite welcome! I kind of wanted to atone for being kind of jackass-y at my other blog.