Killer toothache...

Originally Posted by SVTONYB

for a moment i thought you had totally lost it but it was just me slow to pick up

LOL - I just started at the first post too, thinking that it was me...I really should read all the posts!

As for taking the tooth out, he did give me the choice of root treatment. But he said that there would be no guarantee that it would be successful (and I'm rreally not good at the dentist, and he knows that from the various treatments he has given me in the past - greetin, hyperventilating and shaking on the chair is never a good thing!!!) I think he was steering me towards the best treatment. Its fairly obvious that it's right under the tooth. And to be honest, I'm not sure if he saw anything on X ray or not. He took the X rays on Tuesday morning, and he had them up on the light screen when I went in on WEd... So dunno if it was on there or not. To be honest, I was all prepared to have to tooth out there and then IO was in so much pain! Apparently canny do anything until the infection is cleared up.

I had two wisdom teeth out under general anasthetic, one of which was removed with, I kid you not, a chisel. They put me in the plastic surgery ward which was, alas, full of people having shattered faces rebuilt rather than perky breasts implanted but I fitted right in - face swollen up on one side like the elephant man. Couldn't get my helmet on for a week.

Also did the braces thing - fantastic contraceptive devices...

And now I'm the tooth fairy, bloody quid a go!