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Dentists: Your teeth's natural enemy.
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Or maybe the dental techs. I went in for a routine cleaning and checkup last night. Everything was going fine until the tech got a little too aggressive with the pick. She was working around my back molar and got under the edge of my crown. A hard yank and my crown came right off.
They then tried to tell me to go to another dentist to get a temporary crown. Because I was their last patient and they didn't want to stay late. When I told them no and that they were the ones who put the crown in the first time, they tried to fix it. But they ground a little of the crown down while getting the cement off.
So I'm sitting with a temporary crown waiting to go see another dentist to get another crown fitted. I'm not expecting much.
Has anyone ever had a good dentist? Hacks, the whole lot of them.
They then tried to tell me to go to another dentist to get a temporary crown. Because I was their last patient and they didn't want to stay late. When I told them no and that they were the ones who put the crown in the first time, they tried to fix it. But they ground a little of the crown down while getting the cement off.
So I'm sitting with a temporary crown waiting to go see another dentist to get another crown fitted. I'm not expecting much.
Has anyone ever had a good dentist? Hacks, the whole lot of them.
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there was this dude in downtown tampa though who told me i needed a root canal when i didn't (i put it off for years until i found my new dentist and he was like nah you just need a filling) and had his hygienist give me the most painful deep cleaning in the world
I think I have good teeth and I look after them pretty well as far as I know, but I'm kind of a little terrified to go to a dentist because I have this tiny irrational fear that they're going to find something HORRIBLY WRONG regardless.
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so i had to get a fake crown and then it had to be packed and filled and i was crying in the chair because of the pain and misery and i hate dentists forever
It used to be a parody of it with Ahnold, Sly Stallone, Bruce Willis and a bunch of other action stars on it. I miss that poster.
The last time I went, it looked like a horror movie was shown on my little bib they put on me. Either that or my dentist's office was set in a Zach Snyder movie.
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If I get pain or can feel a cavity then yeah, I'll go.
Otherwise, fuck no.
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Tomorrow I'm going to get hooks attached to my braces.
And on Monday (Unknown time) I'm going to get some bone taken out of my lower jaw.
My orthodontist, oral surgeon and dentist are all top notch.
The dentist is really social and high energy, explains everything as much as I need (sometimes the appointments are a bit late because he does this with everyone, but it's worth it)
My orthodontist is stellar. He could see I was panicking and took the initiative to talk me down, laughs and jokes but he's an ultimate perfectionist.
The oral surgeon I haven't had as much time with yet, but that will be changing soon. He's really personable and imparts both a great sense of "Sit back, I know what I'm doing" and "I'm going to tell you as much as you want to know"
I haven't had a bad dental assistant yet, I don't get the impression a bad one would either last or stay bad for long at those offices.
They're thoroughly (seriously, brushing my teeth takes about 10 minutes) scrubbed twice a day though!
and then he used a goddamn laser to painlessly drill my tooth it owned
I remember dating a dentist and how she got one of her fondest wishes done to her while at work
I am doomed to have shitty teeth it seems if I go by what my family has
Then my wisdom teeth on the bottom grew in (literally) horizontally, screwing up the bottom row. So my teeth on top = perfectly straight. Bottom = not so much.
Fuck you wisdom teeth.
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I only found out they did this because they grew back
Are you a shark, Brainleech?
My mouth is tiny, however, with a relatively small range of motion. Any trip to the dentist is usually a minor ordeal for me so I haven't been but once since I left high school (so like once in the last 6 years). That last time they said everything was cool and I haven't had any pain so I just keep putting it off.
I was told it's rare but it happens
I sat for twenty minutes while he did that until the pain meds wore off, then had to go through the whole process again so he could finish.
I don't go to that dentist anymore.
My parents took me to a shyster dentist growing up, and i'm pretty sure he drilled my teeth when they didn't need to be drilled.
I haven't had a cavity since I stopped going to him. I'm not sure if that's because I don't have any, or if my teeth are more silverstuff than toothstuffs.
I would kill them all with one of those tiny picks.
Go to the dentist you silly duffer!
Prevention is better than care
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Set phasers to flouride.
That is fucking terrifying.
so i guess same as usual, only with a numb mouth
I had almost the same thing happen when I was 10.
Except my dentist used the drill.
I love those things!
They make me smile at how ridiculous they are
Last week I get a letter from this dentist trying to bill me for $1000 claiming that they had attempted to bill my family's insurance several time and it had apparently never been approved and/or processed? What confused me the most was that they waited 15 months before contacting me about this issue.
p.s. there is no way I am paying that. I have dental insurance and the place is in-network, fuck that.
the assistant was pretty aggressive with her vacuum thing, though
so i guess in addition to me going under anesthesia he also injected local anesthetic while he was operating
anywho long story short the left side of my lower lip and my jaw were still numb like a month later and i was scared he'd accidentally caused some nerve damage
it eventually went away though
mostly...i can still feel a little numbness but it's pretty minor
Man, my teeth are fine. My wisdom teeth even came through with zero problems and no pain.