I have met satan and he is a dentist

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went in today for a "painless" laser surgery on my gums. Got there waited 1 hour to be seen.The doc explains how painless this is gives me a shot walks away comes back an hour later. He hands me a pair of welding goggles tells me to put them on just in case so i put them on. He then tips me way back in the chair.I see a red light then the pain hits. At some point i jumped a bit he asked me if everything was ok but all i can do is gurgle a bit because my mouth is full of blood. He nods says good and hits me with the laser again thought i was going to black out from the pain. Fortyfive minutes later he is finished and says see told you it was painles as he wipes the blood off all the machinery lights and stuff. Wanted to throttle him at this point but the smoke from my burnt flesh and the blinding pain only allowed me to smile and nod. The doc shakes my hand and says see you next week for the other side and now you know how painless it is and can relax. I just want 5 min with his laser and his mouth to demonstrate how much pain isnt involved to him.
 
Yeah, I to hate dentists. But because they dont listen. I had a wisdom tooth pulled. It toko the female dentist and 2 assistants to pull it after cracking it 4 times. While she was drilling, I said this HURTS. She replied with its just the pressure. I was like umm no. Needless to say, the tooth is pulled. Fine...I worked in a hospital at the time and had it done there. Did this on my lunch break as well. So, I'm walking around doing my job and I feee this "thing" in my mouth. I finally got it out and it was the drill bit. Yes, she broke a drill bit and didnt realize it. Ignored me. I take it back and told the Nurse, did ya lose something. She looked at me funny and I handed the drill bit back. Needless to say, I didnt have to pay for a a thing since they never billed me.
 
Yeah I was just over his house and he looks like Mike Tyson in his glory days worked him over. :(

Hope your feeling better soon bro.
 
Ouch, I once had one of them kneeling on my chest to pull a tooth with a hooked root. We could line em up and stand back a few feet and take gunslinger shots at them with the laser. I like it.

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OK, guys. Normally, I'd jump right in on this one. I hate going to the dentist. There is just something about someone working on my teeth that makes me light-headed. BUT, my dentist is one of my regular herfing buddies and I have been friends with him for about 5 years. He is also the best dentist I have ever been to. He has never caused me any pain, is quick, efficient, does fantastic work, and his staff is nice and competent.

I know Larry sometimes lurks here, so if you see this...you're great! :thumbs:

My thoughts...time to find a new dentist. ;)
 
when I was kid my dentist would call me Big John. And during one filling the "happy gas" wore off, and my eyes and fianlly after 40 minutes I just gave up and my eyes started watering and he goes, "John are you feeling this?" and with my mouth pinned open I just yelled "AAHHH!!!" I think he got the message because he hooked me up with pain meds right there. He was a good doctor, my adult dentist sucks.
 
I think everyone hates going to the dentist.

My new dentist is state of the art. I've only had minor pain there, and that was from getting a shot (to deaden the pain, go figure).

And he has TV's mounted in the ceiling, so I can watch sportcenter while he does his thing.
 
Forget the DENTIST the Hygenist is like the second coming of my worst nightmare. Man I was sore for 3 days. Just don't forget to floss them pearly whites!
 
THANKS GUYS!! I have an appointment at 5:15 today... :0 :( ???

It's only my second appt in the last 5 years. ONLY reason I am going back is because there was no pain, and I like him.
 
Dentists....don't get me started.

Even other doctors don't think much of dentists....During my last visit to the eye doctor, he was giving me the full eye exam. At some point, he has to poke that "blue-light" machine into my eye. Everytime he sticks it in my eye, I wince and blink, gooping up the end of the machine which he has to pull out and wipe off and try again. He gives me the "mind over matter" lecture and basically tells me I'm a wuss. I tell him that I've never been able to do anything with my eyes (no drops, no contacts, etc)....I tell him just pin my head against the chair, hold my eye open and jam the machine in there..I won't fight, but I can't help either. He does it and when it's over, he says "There, that wasn't so bad, was it?". I reply, "At least at the dentist they give you novocaine." Man, did that piss him off....
 
I maybe one of the few guys that likes going to the dentist. Mostly because the hygenists are pretty cool with me, they flirt, talk their heads off to me, and one even got me to go out on a date with her daughter. The daughter and I became pretty good friends. Also the checkups are most importantly pain-free.

Whenever I leave they hook me up with some cool dental stuff and are always acommodating when scheduling me for another appointment. My brother goes to the same Doc and ever since they knew he was my bro, his checkups have been better and pain-free.

Not saying that they intentionally hurt people, but when you know somebody, you take more care with what you are doing.
 
I went today also, for a cleaning. The hygienist had big knockers and rested them on my shoulders while she cleaned my teeth from behind. Everytime it hurt a bit, I tweaked a nipple. She only stuck me with the "toothpick" a couple dozen more times, after that.
 
I have had several dental procedures including fillings, root canal, crown, wisdom teeth removal, replacing filling etc, all the usuall stuff. I had one dentist that didnt completely drill out two cavities before filling them. One of them was fixed by simply redrilling and refilling (at another $150) while the other one actually killed the nerve and required a root canal. First of all it turns out I have funny shaped roots and it took hours and two dentists trying their hardest to get it cleaned out, then when they went to put the crown in it turns out they needed to do something special to it that they never explained. When I went to pay they hit me with and extra $200 and wouldnt explain why they added it. Total bill for root canal, crown and special whatever came out to over $1500.Of course all of this had to happen during my last round of tests and projects right before finals. All of this because the first guy couldnt do something as simple as drill out a cavity properly, he ended up costing me right at $2000 bucks once you add in the medications and follow up, as well as lowering my grades due to the missed classes. Now I am back to my family dentist that I have to drive over two hours to get to, but it is well worth it to go to someone halfway competent. He even replaced a cavity that popped out just cause hes a nice guy (and he happened to go to Texas A&M)

Long story short, find a good dentist and stick with him (or her) because a bad one can cost you a hell of a lot of money. Just thinking of the cigars I could have bought with half that money makes me sick.
 
Ah the secret of a great dental practice.... Having good looking Hygenist with great knockers makes it almost a painless experience :D
 
I can not think of something I hate more than going to the dentist. I have had to have several procedures throughout my life. During one visit I was getting a couple of cavities taken care of. The Dentist gave me a couple of novacaine shots, waited a couple of minutes and started drilling. I almost came out of my chair, wow did it hurt. He recognized this immediately and gives me another shot. Waits a few minutes and starts again, again I still feel it. He stops and thinks that he must not be getting the novocaine in the proper areas and gives me yet another shot. By the time the procedure was finished there was so much novacaine in me that 3/4 of my face was numb all the way up to the top of my head. Very strange feeling that lasted for about 5 hours. This story is almost spot on for every visit I have to make to the dentist. I hate going, I would rather line up a 100 people and let them all have a turn kicking in the nuts than goto the dentist again.
 
Dentists are one of those necessary evils in life.
My main problem with dentists is that they are always trying to talk to you when they have their fingers in your mouth.
Nothing like trying to make small talk with mouthful of dental tools...
 
Blech, I don't really want to relive some of the horrors I've experienced in the dentist chair. I was a child of the 80's, which I now consider "the age of discovery" in general dentistry.

I did have my wisdom teeth all taken out at the same time. I was really nervous going in there. They put an IV in my hand, and the doctor inserted one vial of something into my IV. He waited a few minutes then asked me, "How do you feel?"

I was panicked, because I didn't feel anything! I could only imagine them starting without me being fully deadened.

He added another vial and then it started hitting me. Was kinda cool. He asked me again, but this time in super slow motion, like in the movie "True Lies" when harry gets the truth serum. "Hoooowww dooo yoooo feeeellll nowwwww, harrrrrryyy?"

Hehe, woke up 2 hours later in the car going home.
 
I just got on a great dental plan and I'm in the first stages of some major work. In 2 weeks I'm having 4 extractions and then 4 more a few weeks later. A bunch of root canals and nerve treatments. Crowns, partials, the works. Just talking about it gives me the willys. Thank god for good drugs and good insurance! :laugh:
 
kiltedcraftsman said:
THANKS GUYS!! I have an appointment at 5:15 today... :0 :( ???

It's only my second appt in the last 5 years. ONLY reason I am going back is because there was no pain, and I like him.
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I am happy to report I got a clean bill of health!! No pain either! What a treat!!! :rolleyes: :D
 
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