BS: Dental Surgery

Subject: RE: BS: Dental Surgery
From: tarheel
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 09:02 AM

yikes!!! my dentist says my Teeth are fine....but,"them gums gotta come out!"

Subject: RE: BS: Dental Surgery
From: *daylia*
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 09:51 AM

Sounds like the story of my life, tarheel ... but at least I'll never have to deal with a shocker like this!    :-D

(WARNING .... shoo the kids away before you click that link ...)

Jimmy, I googled for "Lip-Bumpers"
yesterday - and I couldn't find even one that bears a faint resemblance to that dreaded sharpened-hook-and-band device I was inflicted with for a couple years as a kid. Don't those new devices look kind and smooth and rounded and blunted? Oh, Praise Be for dental evolution!!

Only problem is, it would have been nice to find even one little picture of the thing installed in my mouth, maybe on a "history of orthodontics" site, so people here won't write me off as a deluded dental phobic. But no such luck --- oh well --- that's pretty understandable, anyway.

Y'know what? Monday night I went to bed with my face still aching, images of pliers and scalpels and hooks and needles and pins and posts and prongs and toothless bloody gums dancing in my brain ... when I finally decided to change gears and do something a bit more positive. Started praying, (yes praying, believe it or not) and tried some Huna again too (energetic healing technique, kinda like Reiki). Calmed me right down, and I dozed off with my hand still cupped over my jaw, lulled by the warm soothing energy rippling through my face ....

Well, I woke up next morning and the PAIN WAS GONE! ANd it's stayed GONE!   :-D   YESSSSSSS!!!!!   This keeps up and at least I'll be able to hang in there for a few more weeks, till the dental powers that be finish their investigating and make time in their busy schedules to treat me.

Or maybe ... just maybe ... I could leave well enough alone ... might take YEARS for it to flare up again, if it ever does, and that way I could get a few more years of chomping (GENTLE chomping, on SOFT foods of course!) out of it too. Hmmm ... but I know by now exactly what they'll say at the dentist office: "Glad it feels better now, but it'll come back to haunt you if you do nothing ..."

grrr grrr grrr - and thanks for listening ....

Subject: RE: BS: Dental Surgery
From: Suffet
Date: 13 Oct 05 - 06:56 PM

Greetings:

I was in a bicycle accident in 1964 when I was 17 years old. I didn't know it at the time, but the accident caused hairline fractures of several teeth, fractures which did not show up on x-rays. Years later, these teeth one by one became abcessed. Each time I had root canal therapy which seemed to work, at least for a while. However, in each instance the pain eventually came back. The first time it happened I had the root canal redone, this time with an apicoectomy and a retrograde filling. Once again it was temporarily successful. But a year later, that second root canal failed, and I had the tooth taken out. Only then did the dentist realize it was fractured.

After that experience I gave the dentists one chance. If a root canal works, great. If it fails, take the tooth out. So far my score is seven failures and two successes. But then I'm an exceptional case. Each of those seven failures turned out to be a tooth with a hidden fracture.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Dental Surgery
From: *daylia*
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 10:41 AM

Egads, Steve - thanks for the inside skinny and the most timely heads-up too!

Wishing you all the best, dentally and in every other way,

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Dental Surgery
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 04:21 PM

dentists are dangerous, keep right away from them!