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Milky Bar Kid
21-08-12, 03:43 PM
Last year I started getting root canal on an upper left molar. It was hellish and I begged my dentist to pull it but he kept refusing and cancelling appointments etc. The tooth had a temp filling but it fell out months ago.
I put it off and off and off. I cancelled my dental plan and just forgot to register.
I was nightshift last night and it started getting sore. I went to bed at half 9 this morning and couldn't sleep for the pain. Eventually had 2 hrs kip before it woke me. I flung on some clothes and wandered to nearby dentist and begged/cried until they saw me.
Dentist took tooth out. He hadn't realisef there was a huge abcess ni had three jags in one area around the tooth and one on the roof of my mouth but the pain when he removed the tooth was horrendous but he'd started so I said to just do it. Oh. My. God. How sore was that! He said I had a huge abcess and thats why I was still in pain.
Still in agony and half my face doesn't work. Not allowed to eat til 7 tonight and I'm starving. I need food, sleep, painkillers and sympathy!
Lesson learned. Do not put off going to the dentist.
timwilky
21-08-12, 03:54 PM
Got an appointment for 2 fillings on 24th September
One is for decay under the crown and the second for decay under the huge filling alongside the crown.
So plan appears to be remove huge lump of filling that replaced good tooth years ago to give access to the area of tooth that has decayed under the crown. fill that then fill the excavation alongside.
I hate my teeth, they fracture with ease, crowns wont stay in so I no longer have them done and as a result now have 4 gaps with tooth root embedded in the gum. I wish I was rich enough to have the whole lot replaced with implants.
maviczap
21-08-12, 04:12 PM
Mucho sympathy MBK, having had major facial surgery I can empathise with your pain
I also remember my boss having to be taken to an emergency dentist when he had a golf ball sized swelling on hos face from a tooth that went bad.
Loads of sympathy. And well done for surviving the 'tug' when there was problems with it. God, that must have hurt!
Milky Bar Kid
21-08-12, 05:11 PM
Thanks guys. The 'tug' was horrendous Bri. I was in tears. The 'twist and crack' was pretty horrific too!!
JamesMio
21-08-12, 05:52 PM
Can sympathise 100% dude - I had a tooth out years ago under almost exactly the same circumstances - the anaesthetic isn't anything like fully effective when there's an abcess in-situ, so it hurts like *&$% when they yank it.
I can feel myself getting goosebumps at just the thought of it again now, NEVER wish to experience that again.
Manly fist-bump atchya!
Milky Bar Kid
21-08-12, 05:55 PM
Think the dentist was impressed when I told him not to bother with another attempt and numbing it and just to go for it. In bed now, still in pain and feeling muchos sorry for myself.
missyburd
21-08-12, 06:18 PM
Oodles of sympathy Nic, I feel your pain. Back when I was at uni I had an abscess under a molar, dentist wouldn't do feck all so went to my fave doctor and she prescribed me some strong ibuprofen...I went back to the dentist to have the offending tooth pulled and after about 5 injections I could still feel everything, I was so nervous seeing as I hate dentists :( So the pulling was aborted and I was told to take a temazepam an hour before my next appointment to "calm me down"...
Next appointment, temazepam taken, did it make any difference, did it chuff. A few more injections and still no joy. By this point I'd really had enough and insisted she refer me, or at last see if the hospital would give me a general...She said they probably wouldn't for just a normal root extraction...I was told they would contact me when they'd heard owt....
So still in pain I dealt with it, pain went away a few weeks later...I forgot about it. Then went in 3 months later to find out what was happening....apparently the dentist had been "trying to get hold of me"...they had a letter from the hospital stating it wasn't serious enough to warrant a general anaesthetic. by which point the nerve in my tooth had died anyway and wasn't causing me bother so I said sod it and didn't go back.
Feckin' dentists :( Massive hat off to you for sitting through it Nic, I just couldn't cope, I was shaking like a leaf and she was trying and getting frustrated but I couldn't go through with it. Hope you're all cosied up with the dog and feeling a bit better, best to try and forget the whole thing :smt085
Biker Biggles
21-08-12, 07:15 PM
Scotch.
you should be able to get hold of some where you are.
Milky Bar Kid
22-08-12, 02:51 AM
As is usual with me, things are a drama. Temp is normally 36.6 ish for me - it is currently 38.3 and rising. Cocodamol doing feck all for me either.
Me thinks I should have had some antibiotics. Me sad. Me not well.
Don't wait for it to get worse. Ring the dentist's and get some antibiotics.... then the offie for a decent malt... Failing that, pork scratchings should put a smile on your face.
Hugs Nic.
Fallout
22-08-12, 06:41 AM
Ouch. That sounds really nasty. My mrs has had root canal recently and lots of tears have been shed and lots of sleepless nights.
You're gonna hate me, but I didn't go to the dentist for over 10 years. I finally thought I should go, paid £60 privately for a check-up and the dentist said "You have no decay at all". I've never had a filling. Never brush my teeth in the morning. Only brush them at night. Eat loads of sugar.
I'm a bast4rd, I know. :)
femaleacid
22-08-12, 06:49 AM
Ouchiee!
I really hope you feel better soon, I wouldn't of been able to cope.
My tooth broke away at the top of my mouth, didn't know and got infected. Everytime I brushed my teeth I must of just not knowledged it.
Finally became agonizing and went to the dentist, I'm really bad at they dentist I hate having ANY work done even if its just a coating. They told me I needed a root canal and I got told what it was and I blatantly said to him "feck off if you think you're doing that" so he put a temp filling in and its been there for about 3 year now, no pain. Not been to the dentist since because I know he will do the root canal!
But after hearing this.. I want to go now!
Hope up recover soon x
Milky Bar Kid
22-08-12, 10:08 AM
Do not just leave temp filling in. Root canal is sore at night when the numbness is gone but it's nothing like the pain I experiences yesterday.
Thankfully the GP is happy to do my prescription without dragging me out of my bed so my mum is collecting for me!
femaleacid
22-08-12, 10:23 AM
Do not just leave temp filling in. Root canal is sore at night when the numbness is gone but it's nothing like the pain I experiences yesterday.
Thankfully the GP is happy to do my prescription without dragging me out of my bed so my mum is collecting for me!
Since the filling had been in it hasn't been bad. He cleaned it all out, drilled out the decay but told me I needed a root canal JUST IN CASE it did go into my root, but surely after 3 years it'd be painful..
But I may go soon and just get it done because it sounds quite painful after hearing your story :(
Milky Bar Kid
22-08-12, 11:02 AM
Mine just got sore yesterday outta the blue.
BanannaMan
23-08-12, 02:46 AM
Sorry to hear Nic.
Hope you get everything sorted soon with the dentist.
No one knows how bad the pain can be unless they've experianced it themselves.
GWS!!!
Milky Bar Kid
23-08-12, 09:52 PM
Sorry to hear Nic.
Hope you get everything sorted soon with the dentist.
No one knows how bad the pain can be unless they've experianced it themselves.
GWS!!!
Thanks Bill. Still ill but the pain has subsided, just the infection left to fight off! Been a rough couple of days!
suzukigt380paul
23-08-12, 11:55 PM
rrr dentists,dont you just love them.got to get a checkup soon,but this might help some one else,while eating a toffee about 3 weeks ago i found a hard bit in the toffee,it was indeed my gold filling.bugger i thought,gonner have to book in sooner rather then later,then i had a brain wave,yeah i know it doesnt happen very often cleaned up the old filling and the hole in the tooth and got some industrial type super glue.thats the stuff that actually works,and glued it back in.ive given up eating toffees but over 2 weeks later it is still in place
Milky Bar Kid
24-08-12, 08:55 AM
Thats mighty sensible advice....folks, go to the dentist rather than superglue fillings back in.
JamesMio
25-08-12, 09:24 AM
rrr dentists,dont you just love them.got to get a checkup soon,but this might help some one else,while eating a toffee about 3 weeks ago i found a hard bit in the toffee,it was indeed my gold filling.bugger i thought,gonner have to book in sooner rather then later,then i had a brain wave,yeah i know it doesnt happen very often cleaned up the old filling and the hole in the tooth and got some industrial type super glue.thats the stuff that actually works,and glued it back in.ive given up eating toffees but over 2 weeks later it is still in place
Without question or doubt, easily one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here. And given that there's really no shortage of competition, that's quite an achievement.
Milky Bar Kid
25-08-12, 11:40 AM
Without question or doubt, easily one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here. And given that there's really no shortage of competition, that's quite an achievement.
You made my tea come down my nose there!!
suzukigt380paul
25-08-12, 08:43 PM
Without question or doubt, easily one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here. And given that there's really no shortage of competition, that's quite an achievement.so you wouldn't recomend glueing a gold tooth/filling in that was sucked out by a toffee,it works for me cant see it doing any harm,and the dentist has reglued/.stuck the filling in severel times in the past and charged well for his trouble,its only gold fillings i have ever had fall out as they seem harder to attach to the tooth,had two originally but lost one somewhere down the line,and gold filling have now fell out of favour and they use something else,and i cant see how it is that stupid,give me a clue
widepants
25-08-12, 10:06 PM
Without question or doubt, easily one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here. And given that there's really no shortage of competition, that's quite an achievement.
just choked on my rusk then.
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