Top 10 Ways
<~~~Me pitiful, in pain and puffy.
The Top 10 ways to know your wisdom tooth surgery isn’t going well
10) The dentist has to tell the assistant which way faces up on the dribble bib
9) The gel meant to numb the pinch of the needles runs down your throat, making it nearly impossible to breath
When you start chocking, the dental assistant is too busy navel gazing to hear the dentist yelling “SUCTION! SUCTION!”
7) After 6 shots of Novocain you still feel pain and the dentist doesn’t believe you until you narrowly miss punching his lights out
6) While waiting for the additional 4 shots of Novocain to kick in, you are tortured with office gossip and privy to the jokes about the gentleman in room 2 (who apparently used industrial strength Clorox on his dentures, bleaching the teeth and fake gum part white)
5) He only switches his gloves after he notices that you saw him picking his nose
4) The dentist punches you in the shoulder to demonstrate just how achy your mouth should feel later
3) You have to plead for a pain killer and then they only prescribe Tylenol 3
2) The dental assistant is sent to fetch different tools from another room mid extraction- TWICE
and the number one way you know things aren’t going so well?
1) When the dentist,in a mystified tone of voice says “I don’t understand this, from looking at the Xrays things should be going much more smoothly. I mean these teeth looked like they should have just slid right out”
As if all of that wasn’t bad enough, I broke my no puking streak. Close to 3 years of no vomiting and then on the car ride home - whoops! TWICE. It was so unexpected I had to scramble for an old fast food bag while my husband weaved all over the road yelling, “It’ll be ok, it’ll be ok!”
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June 24th, 2006 at 6:30 pm
I HATE the dentist. I hope you feel better soon!
June 24th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
speedy recovery - and five diamonds to you!
June 24th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
OMG, where did this dentist get his
degree.. mail order??? Come on? Oh,
you poor thing!! Well, I hate to say
your fears were completely justifed.
TG it is over. Get well soon!!
June 24th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Poor Fidg!
Quick healing to you.
June 24th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Oooo dude that sounds terrible!! I hope you heal fast and get a new dentist!
June 24th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
I’m sorry you aren’t feeling well! If it makes you feel better you look cute in your photo you posted
June 25th, 2006 at 12:48 am
Well, I didn’t know what you looked like before so I think you look fine!
I thought wisdom teeth required being put to sleep?
I had a migraine once in the car, reached for the fast food bag and well, the bottom gave way. Blech. Hope yours lasted and hope you feel better!
June 25th, 2006 at 12:54 am
Oh lord, you just scared me. A lot. Mine have to come out very soon.
Going to vote for you right now.
June 25th, 2006 at 2:51 am
How horrible! I had mine give me an IV sedative so I slept through it all. I also got good drugs after. I hope that your recovery goes smoothly.
June 25th, 2006 at 3:30 am
I’m sorry it went so horribly! My wisdom teeth extraction was a piece of cake! The worst part of mine though, was the SOUND, ugh, the sound of teeth being pried out of my mouth! The “eee eee eee” of the tools moving back and forth as they “levered” my teeth out. I was eating solid food in no time though. And you look so cute in that pic, I almost don’t believe you that it went so badly!
June 25th, 2006 at 3:44 am
Ugh, I feel your pain. Well, not really YOUR pain. You knwo what I mean. I am also a wuss and my dentist is a complete ASS.
June 25th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
UGH. I hope you are feeling better! That whole experience sounds frightful. When i had my wisdom teeth extracted they put me to sleep, which is highly advisable to anyone who has wisdom teeth removed in the future!
June 25th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Oh you poor thing….But why oh why did you not take the valium?
Then you would not have to remember their incompetence.
Remember to gargle with salt water ALOT!
Happy healing…..Anne
June 25th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
UGH…dentiiiist…((roll on floor in agony).
Oh, and I voted. (again) Is it wrong to vote more than once??
June 26th, 2006 at 3:17 am
They didn’t put you under? Oh I am so sorry. Both my husband and I were asleep for the entire thing and he got goooooood drugs after. It’s assholes like this that make people fear going to the dentist. {{hugs}}
June 26th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
You’d think they’d have figured out you needed more pain killers after the 17 shots of novocaine. Sometimes I think dentists forget that they’re not working on teeth, they’re working on patients.