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Les Waste · #1

Ok, so a few weeks ago I go to the dentist for my 6 month checkup and, suprise!, I have cavities. Four cavities in my two front teeth (upper). Two in each. I have absolutely no pain, I brush like 14 times a day, but still, I need to get my teeth drilled. The usual crap. I schedule an appointment on Aug. 25 to get them filled.

But then, a week later, a discover I have an big hole in on of my teeth. Top row, to the left of the two front teeth. I had a root canal on this tooth, so I know it's just the temporary crown breaking. I still need to get a permanent one put one.

So I go to the dentist, and while I'm there they decide to fix the crown AND fill the cavities I was going to have drilled a few weeks later. So, after about an hour of drilling (four cavities takes a long ass time

) I'm done. Few hours later, the novacaine wears off, and the teeth that were just drilled are in incredible pain. Which is typical, you know, for me to not have any tooth pain, get seemingly unneeded oral surgery, and then have an assload of pain.

So I call the dentist, get antibiotics and some codein. A week later, it still hurts, so I call my root canal doctor (endotologist, or something, doesn't matter) and schedlue an appointment a few days later. By the time my appointment rolls around, the pain in my teeth is almost completely gone. He takes x-rays and agrees that nothing is wrong.

Then, two days later, the pain comes back, even worse, so I call him again. He refuses to give me more antibiotics and painkillers, and the earliest I could get an appointment was in a week, so I suffer for a week, the day of the appointment, the pain is totally gone.

He takes x-rays and says that the roots were dying, which would explain the on-again off-again pain, so he does a root canal. That was my 4th root canal in three years. Counting the root canals I had when I was a toddler, I've had 10 root canals in my life. And judging from the x-ray I had when I had my wisdom teeth pulled, I have more teeth with fillings in them than I have teeth without fillings in them. I think I have more fake teeth than real teeth.

BaronVonBoner · #2

I'm not going to complain about going to the dentist anymore.
I want some codein though.

Big McLargehuge · #3

Codine make me all grumpy and shit.

Anonymous · #4

why don't you just get dentures? or SHARK TEETH

Les Waste · #5

I have so many fucking crowns that I think I technically do have dentures

Don't sharks have like several rows of teeth? If I got shark teeth, I'd have like 42 cavities every time I go to the dentist cause. And that's not very super good.

Anonymous · #6

no cause they wouldn't be connected to nerves

or you could get metal teeth :W RARRR

Carnivore · #7

You obviously aren't flossing enough!

Just out of curiosity, does your dentist look like this?

Les Waste · #8

Well, my dentist isn't a red x.

She's my mother's brother's wife's sister, so I guess she's my aunt through marriage, or something. Which leads to believe that she isn't out to get me and lies when she says I have cavities in teeth that only hurt after she fills them.

Cap'n Crunch · #9

My uncle has all caps on his teeth. One time the front tooth fell off when he was talking.

The Retro Kat · #10

How do crowns work, I've never had to get a root canal?

Schimid · #11

Les Waste · #12

there are different types of crowns, but this is basically how it goes: a root canal is done when one of many nerves in your tooth dies, usually from some sort of trauma (getting hit really hard on the tooth or something). This is a problem because, although no nerve means no feeling, teeth become absessed when the nerve dies, meaning the tooth becomes filled with pus. To understand what it's like to have an absessed tooth, put a lit fire cracker between your gums and your lip, as if you were chewing chaw, and then do it non stop all the time.

To get the nerve out, they have to make a rather large hole that goes straight to the inside of the tooth, so large that a regular filling wouldn't be big enough and wouldn't cover it up well enough, and you'd get food stuck in there which would suck.

A crown is basically a fake tooth. When I had my first root canal (that I can remember, cause I can't remember back to when I was two) they shaved the tooth down to a little stub. I had a temp crown on it, but I had to get fitted for a real crown. Basically, it was a fake, metal tooth painted to match the rest of my teeth. (it came out last Thanksgiving, which is funny since it's a fucking PERMANENT crown. The metal on the inside was gold colored

)

They put glue on the crown and glue it to the little stumpy piece of tooth that was left after the root canal. But you don't always need a crown. For one root canal I had on my front tooth (like two years ago about), they left the tooth whole, but drilled a hole in the back of it and filled it tiny metal rods, since it was hollow and all.

A 20 year old not aiming to be a dentist shouldn't know this fucking much about root canals

In the past six months, in addition to this most recent root canal, I've had 9 cavities filled and all four wisdom teeth pulled.

The Retro Kat · #13

Jesus Christ, that sucks. Are you one of those people that brush like, three times a day but still get bad teeth, or do you just not give a damn about them?

Les Waste · #14

In the first post in this thread I said I brush like 14 times a day, and that's only kind of a joke. I brush my teeth whenever I go to the bathroom, and I still have rotten teeth. I've also stopped drinking soda, which I loved, and my teeth still suck. My brothers, however, drink gallons of soda and have horrible personal hygiene, and never get cavities or absessed nerves.

Here's how much I brush: despite all the cavities I get, my teeth are stunningly white. Not that I care about having white teeth, and I hate those people who buy every single teeth whitening product available and, despite the fact that their teeth are so white that blind people have to shield their eyes when they smile, still complain that their teeth aren't as white as they want them to be.

The worst is when you're a kid, and you go to the dentist with your brothers and your mom, and your older brother who basically has a covering of moss on his teeth has no cavities and you have 12, and then you have to listen to the dentist tell your mom how great your brother is and how wonderful he takes care of his teeth, and then how disappointing you are cause you have cavities cause you don't floss.

I'm pretty sure that's how 90 percent of all murders happen.

Professor Cool · #15

I barely brush, always in a rush and im more worried about my hair than my teeth, i brush then something important arises or when i just look and go "Damn, i should brush then now". I only have 2 cavities in my whole life, my dentist said all i need to do is floss more. My mother went a a month later, she brushes her teeth everyday. She had 3 cavities when she went. Theres gotta be something to this.

Ninjavenom · #16

Dude, if you're still getting cavities like that, not drinking soda is not worth the results. Soda is king, Bobo. KING. Soda never gave up on you, why you on soda?

Cap'n Crunch · #17

I am one of those assholes who barely brush my teeth, and I only have one cavity.

AChimp · #18

METAL TEETH!!!

Anyways, I'll agree with the fact that most dentists are assholes. I told my dentist straight to his face THREE FUCKING TIMES that I didn't want braces, and he still had the fucking orthodontist phone my house asking when I wanted the appointment. Money-grubbing shithead.

I've never had a cavity, though, and despite my massive over-bite, my molars line up perfectly (which, again, according to my dentist still requires jaw surgery... uh, hello? Perfect alignment doesn't need fixing!)

I seem to have finally convinced him that he's not squeezing any more money that necessary out of me, so he nit-picks my brushing technique and pulls out the ol' plastic teeth thingy all the time.

Bobo, I bet my mom has more fake teeth than you. She's had most of her molars either capped, or pulled out completely, and the entire top row of front teeth (from eye tooth to eye tooth) are the fake teeth that they embed in your jawbone.

They glow in UV light though.

Jeanette X · #19

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Originally Posted by Les Waste

In the first post in this thread I said I brush like 14 times a day, and that's only kind of a joke. I brush my teeth whenever I go to the bathroom, and I still have rotten teeth. I've also stopped drinking soda, which I loved, and my teeth still suck. My brothers, however, drink gallons of soda and have horrible personal hygiene, and never get cavities or absessed nerves.

It probably has to do with genetics. My dad had few cavities growing up, and his brother had a ton. Try using an electric toothbrush. How long do you brush anyway?

AChimp · #20

Brushing your teeth a lot can actually make your cavities worse because it wears down the enamel prematurely.

JenMacca · #21

Must say that I can totally feel for you. I've always had absolutely lousy teeth since I was a toddler as well and have had three root canals so far.....prolly need 2 more at the moment on a couple teeth. I don't care what anyone says, brushing your teeth does not necessesarily make all the difference with whether or not you get tons of cavities. I take VERY good care of mine, always have, and I kid you not my dentist said I have at least one cavity in every tooth. *sighs* And I haven't even had my wisdom teeth pulled yet...*gulps* He wanted to have them removed last year along with one molar that was so far gone and impacted that they had to do oral surgery with a specialist just to remove it. General anesthetic and all. NOT fun. (Even if I did wake up half-assedly singing "Yellow Submarine"

) With me though, I also got really unfortunate and inherited from my mom's side of the family, REALLY "soft" teeth.....ugh. They break way too easily (which is what's caused quite a few of my major dental problems...). But it's almost DEFINITELY a heriditary thing. I guess I was doomed, both my parents had lousy teeth. So......just outta curiosity, did either (or both) of your parents have bad teeth, by any chance? Because if they do, you've probably just found your culprit.

Domo Kun · #22

Yeah w0w.

I thought it was horrible getting my teeth cleaned with that one pollisher thing. Bumm ummm I will just shut up. I am so scared of getting a root canal. I am not 100% sure what exactly they do for them, but from parts I have heard, its horrible.

Oh how fun for you, tomorow is the 25th, so while I am out at the photo shoot on my bike, you will be getting drilled, thats HORRIBLE. I R sorry.

-Domo

JenMacca · #23

Domo, actually, root canals aren't THAT horrible really. People make them out to be a *lot* worse than they actually are. They're no walk in the part, that's for sure, but nonetheless......they're nothing to be terrified of. Trust me. I'm probably one of THE world's biggest wusses when it comes to pain.....and for the most part you don't feel anything after the novacaine injection(s). (I have overlaid nerves or something....apparently I have twice as many nerves as most people. So, when something hurts, I feel it that much MORE.) Anyways......for me, I've always found it helps to have a walkman on with something you really like in it. (For me, it's usually the Beatles, or solo Beatle stuff.) Anyway, after they give you the novacaine shots you should be numb enough to where you won't feel anything. They'll recline the chair back and wait for the stuff to kick in. I find that once they ACTUALLY start working on me though, that I have the easiest time if I shut my eyes and just concentrate fully on the music and work on blocking every other sound out. You might feel some pressure with a couple parts, but you shouldn't actually feel any pain. If you do, let them know immediately, and they'll give you more novacaine, and then you should be good to go.
I had a root canal that took 4 HOURS once.....my god I thought I was going to die or something in the office, I eventually started panicking when the dentist had to take a break, and I got a glimpse of the window and it was DARK outside....I had had like a four pm appointment, and I look at my watch, and it's 7, technically after hours, but he didn't want to just drop everything and just leave me there, he wanted to get as much done at once as he could. But that was a very, VERY rare circumstance, and I can almost garuntee it'd probably never happen to you. Normally they only take about an hour and a half, if even that. Depends on the dentist. But really, once you have one done, you realize they aren't all THAT scary. They just seem like it. Hopefully some of this will help you feel a little more comfortable if you ever have to go in and have one done!

Les Waste · #24

My parents both have rotten luck like me. When my mom was a kid, she would always take better care of her teeth than her brother, but she would always get a ton of cavities and her brother would be praised for not having.

At least I know who to blame.

and getting my wisdom teeth pulled was the least painful dental surgery I've ever had, by far. It was actual fun to get the nitrous oxide. And I had almost no pain afterwards or during it.