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: 2007-06-14 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!