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I hate the dentist. Well, he seems like a decent bloke, but...

 

He was hitting a real nerve at times drilling into my face yesterday. Ended up needing to have something put onto a nerve to 'kill it' and going back tomorrow to continue. Was really not feeling good last night.

 

Shudder.

 

And what a bloody awful job looking into 30-40 people's mouths every day, many of them at best 'not nice' I would wager. While I was there the 6 other people I saw were probably average age 75. I can only imagine they get paid tons to do that.

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I have had some very gentle dentists in the past, and one nightmare who I thought had something against me.

 

I realise that it may just have been the difficulty in what he was doing, but feel not.

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He was being ok, just needing to take a tooth out that still had some nerves attached or something.

 

Bit of dull ache today, looking forward to tomorrow to get this sorted.

 

Though with my ladie's experiences, I wonder if I might have to go back about 45 times for this thing to be sorted.

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Had two wisdom teeth and a root canal this year......I'm well versed in being "uncomfortable". Funny thing though, the most painful parts of it was my jaw after the pulling and the little stitches rubbing against the side of my tongue making a huge canker sore.....feck!!....

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How many times did you need to go for all that lot Chriselle?

 

Was there for 10 minutes today and told to go back next week. I asked and he said I might need to 5-6 times in total for this to be sorted, next time will take about 30 minutes.

Good job I only live 5 minutes drive away!!

 

I have not been before here, interesting you pay each time for the bit you had done 'today'. Still seems much cheaper than UK. I have the national health thing so I think pay 30%.

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I recently had a tooth repaired that had been filled years ago and had gone bad.

I needed 12 visits to the dentist just to do that one tooth.

Because the drugs they use here to numb your mouth are so week I have to have 4-5 shots of extra strength stuff each time, most have just 1 or 2 of normal strength before it will work and even then I can feel the pain when they drill in.

I had to have root canal work done, all three roots.

One was not to painful, but the other 2 were so painful that it was like being stabbed by a thousand knives all at the same time, I kid you not.

So the only way he could drill out all the infection, bad parts from the roots was too put this stuff down in the bottom of the root canal to actually kill the nerves, which hurt like hell and he had to put three times the normal strength in there, leave if for a few days, then try to clean a minute piece out, which hurt like hell. He repeated this 6 separate times and each time it was a painful as f*?k!

Once this was eventually done, and the nerves were dead then he did a final drill to ensure all the bad crap was gone from the base of the tooth, and that still hurt a little even after all these goes at trying to kill the nerves.

Then he seal the base of the nerves fills them with this stuff to seal them.

Then after that it was go back several times to get a cap made for my tooth.

 

All this work for one bloody tooth. If that ever gives me jip again, I am going to get it pulled out, f+*k going through that again!

This was a few weeks ago now and feels absolutely fine now, I hope it stays like it.

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Yikes, 12 times. :veryshocked:

 

The receptionist is quite pretty I suppose. :lol:

 

I think what you said is a bit similar to what I had done the day before yesterday... he wanted to kill some nerves or something so he could take the whole bad tooth out. That's what he did today and it was mpretty much pain free. He said next time will take about 30 minutes, so I don't know what is up next! For now there's some temporaraty cover on it.

 

Luckily it's not a tooth that can be seen, so I don't need it to be particularly pretty.

 

 

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Yep 12 times, I shit you not!

 

Yeah my tooth is also one that can't be seen either, I have a metal cap on it now.

Most probably he is going to do a final clean inside the tooth, fill it with some kind of filler to seal the nerves and the bore holes in the tooth. And then next visit after that drill holes into the filled holes for a cap if you are having a cap on, otherwise just fill it I guess.

But then I am just guessing as I don't know exactly what work you are having done and maybe completely different to what I just told you!

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Here in NZ I had a root canal done a while back . All done in one painless procedure. Felt the pressure while the dentist/ Haisha was doing his stuff but no pain. My understanding is that doctors and dentists in japan are extremely conservative concerning pain medication.

 

 

 

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Yes the medicines here are much weaker than back home, but actually even pain killers back in the Uk didn't really do anything, and when ever I had any work done on my teeth back home the stuff there never numbed my mouth either.

When I had my foot crushed and all the bones broken in it, was fine for the first 30-40 mins didn't feel a thing until about an hour later when the pain started and by the time I got to the hospital the pain was excruciating to say the least, they gave me morpheme, which took ages to have any effect, although it should work almost instantly.

Nothing really seems to work with me, don't know why, but they don't.

 

Others I speak to say they have no problem with pain once they have an injection at the dentist, so not sure if it is the medicine is not strong enough for us foreigners or it just really doesn't have much effect on me.

It is bloody annoying though and why I absolutely hate going near a dentist, that and the half chocking to death when they drill my teeth.

Which is why if it is a back tooth I would rather have it pulled out then go through all that, but the dentists here insist it is better to get the tooth fixed up and are very reluctant to pull a tooth in Japan.

Thing is I do have a very high pain thresh hold, but not when it comes to my mouth, oh no no way!

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I was surprised when he injected me and pretty much went to work there and then. Back in the UK I seem to remember them letting you stew for 10 minutes and your face getting mad numb. That might have been a coffee break though. :lol:

 

Having said that, what he did was enough for the pain to go where he was working.

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Going in for a root canal on a rear tooth tomorrow happy to have it done as it has been cracked and painful for years so fingers crossed they get all 3 nerves if not It will have to be a specialist and that hurts the pocket as well. Don't want it removed as it stuffs all your other teeth up and a replacement is expensive

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Sorry guys....didn't check in for a while..

 

Ya, man...it was at least 10 times...probably closer to 15 or 20 visits for all that.

 

 

 

 

Just have to add.......Snowdude's a pus.... :lol: :wave:

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LOL! I had to get some work done last year on a couple of cracked teeth. Three visits for each one. The medication was enough for me and the treatment was really good. Definitely prefer the system back home though were everything would have been done in one day. It's hard trying to get time off work for all of those short visits to the dentist!

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Well, the wisdom teeth were done on separate occasion but they were only about 5 visits between the two of them. The root canal made up the rest of the visits. I think they just want to make sure it's done right. A failed root canal can be pretty serious so they do the nerve killing in a bunch of stages with sterilization visits worked in there for good measure. Personally, I feel better about this way of doing things compared to the ..wam-bam-thank you mam ...in and out back home.

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Feeling a visit to the dentist is necessary. One of my back teeth has become very sensitive to cold recently. Don't think I can put it off much longer.

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Feeling a visit to the dentist is necessary. One of my back teeth has become very sensitive to cold recently. Don't think I can put it off much longer.

 

I think you should get a figure skate and a rock and get gnarly. Gotta get naked, of course.

 

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