Anybody have any Dental horror stories?

[the ringo kid]

Boy howdy--I did yesterday and it came at the worst time too.Thats also why I wasnt here yesterday.I was attempting along with my sister--to watch: American Sniper--since she had not had the chance to see it.We went and about ten or so minutes into the movie--a tooth broke in half and half of it shoved into a nerve. I was clasping the entire right side of the jaw in hands and managed to keep from howling from the pain.

I had to go to the ER and have it removed.One of the worst parts about the full affair--besides my sister missing the movie--was the Dentist tried the moving from one way or the other trick--to try to get the tooth out. Well,aftr a VERY painful thirty or more minutes--that didnt work so--she had to use a saw to cut it into smaller pieces.

Well,that took about twenty or so more minutes--my tongue was partially cut into by the saw since the assistant lost control of her tongue-holding piece of wood and the saw cut through a few layers.

The best thing was--after cutting the tooth--the first hunk came out fairly easily enough,second hunk was more difficult--third came out easily. Torture ended after about an hour in the chair.

The only bad pain I still have--is the feeling that my jaw is stilll being twisted to and fro--and have a slight headache. Good thing is--no more of the worst pains I ever felt. They asked me on a scale of one to tem-ten being the worst--I said: "I would probably feel better if I was laid across train tracks with a large train carrying a battalion of Tiger tanks--went across my legs.

Anyone else have abad dental story?

 

[Laketime]

I once gave myself a partial route canal at 3:30 am one time.I also pulled my wisdom teeth myself over the course of a couple of years.This drove my former Dentist to despise me and ask me to find another Dentist.

 

[madmikeb]

I had a tooth pulled a few years back and when the tooth came out it looked like a piece of the root was missing. The dentist then proceeded to probe around in the socket with a pick to see if there was indeed a piece still in there.
I've has a lot of dental work done but this was the incident that sticks with me!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

The Dentist (1996( Review


One of the scariest Dentist stories ever

 

[finesse_r]

Hey any barber or auto mechanic worth his salt would have pulled that thing out of there in no time flat. He probably would not charge you over a couple of dollars to do it. Just get some pliers clamp down good and give a strong tug. Then just slap a gob of grease or hair jell in the hole and be done with it. Messin with wigglin and sawin and such is just a waste of time.

Yeah, sometimes they crush em that way, but then the little tiny pieces come out a lot easier with some tweezers. When it comes to splitin a tooth it is best to use a hammer and chisel not some sissified saw. You probably even let em give you some Novocain or laughing gas or such. Oh me, what has this world come to when a grown man goes to the hospital for a little tooth ache. Place like that hospital could charge a man as much as ten or twenty dollars to do all that.

 

[arjay]

One of the funniest (after the fact)was breaking off a tooth in the wilds of Wyoming,finding a dentist in a tiny little town who said he could take care of it after dinner.He had to straddle the chair and was literally lifting me up trying to pull that sucker! Canines have loooong roots.

 

[mtgianni]

I got a tooth drilled in Buenos Aires in the early 70's by one of the two Dentists approved by the ADA. He did not use water to drill, did it dry and stopped to let it cool. That was a long day.

 

[Cdog]

About 6 months ago a broken crown. Yep, removing what was left of the first crown was pure nerve on nerve. My dentist, a good friend was very apologetic, but it was hell.

I've never had that much pain in a dental chair.

Clicking "Like" on the Kid's post somehow just seems wrong.

 

[Airpark]

Dental Horror Stories....what the hell is that?

You just take'em out at night, put them in a glass of water and put them back in next morning.

 

[Evil Dog]

Dental Horror Stories....what the hell is that?

You just take'em out at night, put them in a glass of water and put them back in next morning.

Yup, that works just fine for me too !!!

 

[S&WIowegan]

I had an old time dentist try do a root canal on me. He managed to push the infection out through the root. This lead to a large abcess which required surgery. Never went back to the original dentist again.

 

[Triathloncoach]

I had a tooth broken wrestling in college. The dentist had to break it apart to get it all out. A few weeks later I was eating in the dining hall with my GF and felt something sharp in my gums. I wiggled it out and it was a bloody shard of tooth. I put it on my GF's plate. She was repulsed. She should have dumped me then, but that's a different story. Eventually she did dump me tho. Sniff, sniff.

 

[zzzippper]

Oh God, the memories; the horrors. When I was 11 yrs old we were playing cops and robbers on our bikes. A "friend" rammed into me and sent me flying front teeth first into the street. Both permanent front teeth were shattered off at the gum line. My parents were gone so my brother called the dentist. He said to soak cotton balls with clear nail polish and keep that on the stumps to protect the nerves from air. The next day (Sunday) I had an emergency appointment with him.

I had the first appointment every Saturday morning for the next six months. He would dig roots and fragments. My dad always took me and afterwards we would meet a friend of his at a bar where they would drink and I would have a Novocain-burger. I would walk down the street to a drugstore and buy baseball magazines. My mouth wasn't fully grown so he couldn't do anything permanent for me until I was about 15. He made a partial plate that yellowed horribly so I was ashamed to wear it. It was easier just to go toothless. When I had grown enough he made a bridge. I'm now on my third bridge at age 57.

The dentist was an old drunk and had arthritis in his spine. He would go out every Friday night, get loaded, and then see me first thing Saturday. He had to hold onto the walls of the office to get in and out of his chair. One day he was digging for bone when he looked me in the eye and said, "You think I'm a mean old son-of-a-bitch, don't you?" All I could do was nod slightly and say, "Ungh-huhng."

 

[Steve O]

Bone infection

Had a bad infection under a crown that was put in place after a root canal. Ate into the jaw bone, so had to have a bone graft. Periodontist didn't believe in gas, so all done with only local anesthetic. Ended up with a black and blue jaw because of all the drilling and poking from inside the mouth.

Bad news was the graft didn't take and had to go through the process all over again.

 

[Bat Guano]

The dentists I had as a kid were awful. 12 on a scale of 10 for most of them. It's much, much, much better now, thank God.

I kept all my horror stories to myself for years rather than scaring the hell out of my own kids, who grew up in a whole different era. They will probably keep all their teeth for life, with any luck.

 

[shouldazagged]

About thirty years ago I had all my upper teeth and four abscessed lowers removed, and an upper denture fitted, in one two and a half hour sitting.

I think that one qualifies.

 

[vytoland]

"is it safe?".............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzw1_2b-I7A

 

[mstem]

About 12 years ago I was sent to this woman dentist for what was called a "deep root scaling". She would clean half of my top teeth each visit & the half of my bottom teeth each visit for a total of 4 visits. Even after numbing there was pain! A few weeks after I had this procedure my teeth started to get loose. All of them. Some I pulled myself with little pain, the dentist pulled all the rest. I lost all my teeth because this dentist screwed up what she was doing. Now I wear dentures because of her. I was going to sue her but the dentist that was going to testify for me had a heart attack in his office & died. So she got away with ruining my teeth! Anyone in Southside Virginia that wants her name so they can stay away from her, PM me.

 

[sheepdawg]

Anything about periodontal gum surgery is a horror story.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

Dental horror stories?

Yeah, I got one. I'm working on my taxes today. Totaling up medical expenses. $2,384 for dental last year, not counting insurance premiums. That could of bought one or two really nice Smiths. Son had a root canal (and one normal filling). He's got lots of teeth. What was so special about that one tooth! It wasn't even in front.