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Post by htmb on Oct 6, 2014 15:21:12 GMT
Very true, Lizzy, though I was tempted to perform my own extraction over the weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2014 16:52:05 GMT
It is probably a good thing that people do not generally keep a pair of pliers in the bedside drawer.
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Post by htmb on Oct 6, 2014 17:53:32 GMT
I certainly agree! I suppose it's fortunate my pain is coming from a spot near my cheekbone, and not from near a tooth. Yanking out the tooth with the pliers from my kitchen drawer didn't occur to me even during the worst of it. I had more of a "I want to smash my face in" feeling.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 6, 2014 18:16:48 GMT
I just had my semi-annual cleaning and check up at my Dentist this morning. All went well except for being notified that my dental coverage has been reduced and therefore I was not covered today but they submitted it to my husbands plan.
Sorry to read about your weekend of pain htmb. I have never experienced anything like that. Hopefully you will be feeling better by tomorrow evening.
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Post by htmb on Oct 6, 2014 19:39:41 GMT
Thank you, Mich.
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Post by htmb on Oct 8, 2014 21:35:14 GMT
Though not pleasant, my root canal procedure yesterday was uneventful and I am already feeling much relief. The pain I was having is much more localized and most of the visible swelling has diminished. I will return in three weeks so the job can be completed. Of course, the most painful part of the whole ordeal was the cost of the procedure. $1,000.00 USD
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 15:26:33 GMT
A crown fell out today unexpectedly. In the past I have felt it wiggling a little as an advance warning but not this time. I have two crowns and the other one has never fallen out, but this is the 3rd time for this one, although it's the first time in about 10 years. Tomorrow I'll go to the trusty Hôpital Rothschild dental school and have them shove it back in. I could have gone this afternoon, but I figured that they are busier on Mondays with people who have been suffering over the weekend, so it would be more charitable of me to wait until Tuesday. Since the service is free, I don't want to see anybody who is overworked, overhung or annoyed for any reason if I can help it.
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Post by htmb on Oct 27, 2014 19:17:50 GMT
Based on my experience, they will also take an xray to make sure there's no decay before they glue back your crown. I will be returning to the endedodontist tomorrow so he can re-open up my root canal, unpack whatever he's shoved up in there, and close it back up. I have a meeting to attend afterwards and, since I expect to have a numb mouth, I hope I won't need to do any talking.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 6:00:49 GMT
I had to wait for almost 3 hours at the hospital, but that was fine with me since I had brought a book and don't get enough reading time anymore. The actual procedure only took about 15 minutes.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 29, 2014 16:48:20 GMT
Glad it all went well. My husband lost a front eye-tooth (implant) about 3 months ago and I hated to see the gap when he smiled ( did you notice it Kerouac?) But to his dismay a crown decided to part company just before we were due back from holiday and to this day he still has not phoned for an appointment. I think he is in htmb's region of expense....it's putting him off.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 18:32:19 GMT
Ha ha, I don't remember him smiling much, but that is normal when somebody is trying to hide such a thing.
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Post by rikita on Oct 30, 2014 9:25:15 GMT
agnes and i have a dentist appointment in a week and a half. wonder what she'll think of it ...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2014 22:17:22 GMT
Back to the dental school tomorrow. A little piece of tooth detached itself in my mouth and now the entire right side is out of order. No pain at all if my mouth is not doing anything, but major discomfort if I need to chew on the right side of my mouth. I just hope that they can plug the nerve and not set me up for weeks of their usual shenanigans.
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Post by htmb on Dec 8, 2014 22:55:25 GMT
Sorry to hear, Kerouac. Losing part of a tooth is certainly not something you want to have happen.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2014 4:54:38 GMT
My body is just wearing out.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2014 12:46:32 GMT
Well, I learned that the tooth that had been so lovingly reconstructed in the spring to avoid needing a crown split in half and will require extraction. The date is already set for the beginning of January. In the meantime, the student removed the piece of tooth that was causing discomfort. If I want a permanent replacement (implant), which I do, it'll cost about 1700€ and that is something that social security refuses to reimburse.
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Post by htmb on Dec 9, 2014 13:04:14 GMT
I had three permanent teeth that never developed. I managed to keep the "baby" teeth in place until well into my forties, eventually replacing them with implants over a period of a few years. Though the implants were not cheap, I've never regretted the decisions and never had a bit of trouble from them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2015 20:05:54 GMT
I finally had my "problem tooth" removed today and what a total nightmare it was. It turned out to be twice as difficult as the dentist thought it would be, so it took more than an hour of hacking, drilling, pulling, breaking and injecting me with more anesthetic whenever I started grunting with my eyes popping out. All I could really see were the droplets of blood spraying onto his mask and just at the perimeter of my vision the sucking tube full of a steady stream of blood. Since his assistant was getting bored just holding the tube, whenever the dentist went to look for better tools, he would tweeze out some tooth fragments that were lying around.
"Sorry about this," the dentist said, "but sometimes with old people the roots fuse to the bone over time." Well, obviously I survived but once I was able to sit up, the work table in front of me was a complete vision of horror with pieces of tooth all over it, as well as mounds of bloody compresses. I really thought that this process was much more civilised, but since it was my first tooth extraction ever, clearly I was wrong.
I have to go back in a week for him to see if things have healed properly. In the meantime, I have a supply of codeine pills and also some antibiotics that were added as a precaution due to the extra butchery. Frankly, though, I was not in any sort of extreme pain once the anesthesia wore off and didn't really "need" the pain pills at all, although it is kind of nice to have them, since I can't feel a thing at the moment...
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Post by bjd on Jan 8, 2015 20:28:33 GMT
Sounds horrible, Kerouac. While we were on holiday last week, my husband had an infection in his gum, underneath a crown. And of course, all the local dentists were on vacation -- finally managed to get an appointment with one 25 km away in the morning of Dec 31. After a couple of days of antibiotics and pain killers, he finally started sleeping and feeling better.
This was a consequence of a dentist in Beirut years ago who jammed a piece of filling into his gum instead of into a cavity in a tooth. It has caused problems occasionally over the years, even though x-rays last week showed nothing there.
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Post by htmb on Jan 8, 2015 20:31:14 GMT
So sorry to hear the extraction was a nightmare, Kerouac. I can certainly empathize. I think the noises they make and the pulling crunching and spraying are absolutely horrible. I detest going to the dentist, though I really like my dentists and their staff. I was at a dental appointment yesterday and could not wait to get out of there. Hopefully everything will heal up properly and you won't have any more discomfort related to today's procedure.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2015 20:34:13 GMT
Anyway, he said that there is a three month waiting period before the "implant" phase. That's fine with me.
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Post by htmb on Jan 10, 2015 12:54:52 GMT
So, Kerouac, you spent two hours bring tortured in the dentist's chair and then you got on a velib to ride to a tram stop!!!!!!! Your mouth must have still been good and numb, AND you must have an amazing amount of determination. It was all I could do to drive home after a similar procedure. I know I sure would not have wanted to get on a bike!
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Post by rikita on Jan 14, 2015 8:43:20 GMT
hope i finally manage to go to the dentist today to make an appointment for agnes. gotta write down their phone number so i can do this by phone in the future ...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 14:11:41 GMT
I'm returning to the dentist tomorrow so that he can admire his battlefield.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 16:29:45 GMT
My husband went to the dentist yesterday to have a crown replaced and he is going for a gold one! I said he'll look very Eastern European, plus we'll have a little stash for when the Apocalypse comes. He has a hard time with crowns breaking, and apparently this might stop the replacements.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 17:46:18 GMT
I don't think they even do gold crowns in France anymore, but when I got one, I was offered the cheaper alternative of steel. I went for porcelain anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 18:19:41 GMT
He's had two porcelain ones break (the same tooth), so he's fed up. I don't blame him. I have a gold eyetooth prosthetic I wore in a show once, he and I can pretend we're gypsies.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 20:40:57 GMT
I had to go back to the dentist today so that he could admire last week's butchery aftermath. I have healed perfectly (I already knew that because I always heal perfectly. In fact, I usually heal so fast that it is like in those superhero movies where you see their wounds closing up and disappearing in a few seconds.), which he confirmed the moment I opened my mouth. He'll take a second look in a month and then it will be time to discuss the implant business.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2015 21:47:12 GMT
After my implant 2 weeks ago, I had to return to the dentist to get the stitches out. Everything is apparently wonderful. Next phase scheduled to start on July 29 to actually attach something to the implant, so that's at least a 3-month breathing period.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 21:18:17 GMT
A downside of going to the dental school is having to suffer through the horror of dental imprints twice in a row because there was something wrong the first time. Of course, the upside is the fact that a private dentist would almost certainly never have admitted that something was wrong. At least I managed my panic attack at having that stuff in my mouth a little better this time.
Too make me feel better, my dental student told me that there is something much worse than this. Apparently the stuff used to make imprints for people who are really toothless is far more horrible.
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