Great news, Snubby. Very glad to hear she is on the mend.
The Continuing Saga of My Wife's Toothache, update #32, #40
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Glad to hear the worst is over for her. Those extractions can be troublesome, take it easy for several days
Jim1392
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Same experience here as far as a tooth removal. I had a tooth that a prior dentist worked on and filled and built up 30 years ago. When he did the work he told me to expect it to last for a couple of years. Well it finally gave out and the entire filling came out last year. It left a crater in my tooth. So I go to my regular dentist because now it's starting to really hurt. He looks at it and says nope you have to go to an oral surgeon to get that out. He then refers me to one that can see me on Monday and this is Friday. No amount of pain killers helped me over the weekend. Come Monday morning I go the the surgeon and he popped it right out with no problems. It seems like all these dentists want to do it fill cavities and cleanings today.
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OP
Taking it easy is gonna be the hard part for her. She's not good at sitting still.
Today's a gym day and she wants to lift. I told her that she can walk the track or use a treadmill but that's it.
What did the oral surgeon say about exercising? If she gets her blood pressure up it cause the site to bleed. It will probably be fine but it doesn't hurt to make sure. Good luck and glad to hear the tooth is out.
I would have been talking to friends about Their dentists. On the internet looking for a dentist and contacting Their office. When the Dentist refused the extraction, I would have left. I know it's painful and hurts to the point of tears, but, when You need a remedy, You need a remedy and not a runaround. Glad You got it taken care of.
OP
He told her to take it easy for a week and a half but she "negotiated" it down to three days.
That means evening spin class tomorrow and lifting on Friday.
We'll see how that goes.
OP
I had never come across that before. It's been my experience that when a dentist recommends an extraction, they just go ahead and pull the tooth.
My old dentist did. I went in for a cavity in a wisdom tooth and he just yanked it along with the other three.
Our old dentist would have and has pulled one of her wisdom teeth before but unfortunately, he retired. The fellow that recommended the extraction supposedly took his place.
He recommended that it get pulled, we told him to go ahead and pull it and instead of doing that, he referred us to another dentist who didn't pull it so we went to another dentist that said he'd pull it but instead gave us a referral to a dental surgeon that yanked it in short order.
It's been a serious cluster (expletive deleted) but it's finally done and now we know what route to take if it happens again.
Hopefully.
