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OK, the fun just continues--yesterday I was supposed to be fitted with the frame for the bridge, so they can go ahead and make the replacement tooth and the crowns for the two adjacent teeth that anchor it. Shouldn't be painful, right? So I went into the dentist yesterday, and after waiting an hour she comes in with pliers to pull my temporary caps off, which then feels like she's pulling out my good teeth. "Don't worry, it just feels like I'm pulling out your tooth, but I'm really not." O_O!! shfksfksfhskdf!!!!
I say, "no there's got to be another way. A solvent?" She gets out the novocaine needle and starts going for me again. "No more needles! Find another way, dammit! You must have a topical, laughing gas something!" So she does have a topical cream, and it works--thank goodness.
She gets the caps off, but there's still permanent glue caking one of the teeth that the dental assistant mistakenly used to put on the temporary cap. "He shouldn't have done that. I don't know why he did," she says. So what does she have to do? You guessed it! Drill to get it off! Whoohoo!! @_@!!!
And of course it involves the painful hitting of nerves. sdhsdjgf!!!! After being there 3 hours, I just couldn't take a needle at that point. So I get to go back on Saturday for more pain for their fucking mistake. This is following the first visit when she stuck me a few times with a needle that was not injecting, and then the next visit when she drilled my tongue.
Yes, I would go to a new dentist if I could at this point, but the bridge frame has already been made, and, even if my HMO thingie would let me, it would still cost like a thousand to get that done again. So I have to finish this with her, but I'm switching to a new one when this procedure is through, lemme tell ya. But I don't wanna go on Saturday, Mommy!!! Sigh. At least I know now to make her use the topical cream before I let her inject the novocaine--that should help some. Oy!
Well, it also depends on Isabel whether the area will even have power on Saturday. We shall see how that goes. I got to go through a tornado 2 years ago and it was terrifying, so I'm not looking forward to this. I hope it downgrades before reaching here. Could this week be any more fun, I ask you?
I say, "no there's got to be another way. A solvent?" She gets out the novocaine needle and starts going for me again. "No more needles! Find another way, dammit! You must have a topical, laughing gas something!" So she does have a topical cream, and it works--thank goodness.
She gets the caps off, but there's still permanent glue caking one of the teeth that the dental assistant mistakenly used to put on the temporary cap. "He shouldn't have done that. I don't know why he did," she says. So what does she have to do? You guessed it! Drill to get it off! Whoohoo!! @_@!!!
And of course it involves the painful hitting of nerves. sdhsdjgf!!!! After being there 3 hours, I just couldn't take a needle at that point. So I get to go back on Saturday for more pain for their fucking mistake. This is following the first visit when she stuck me a few times with a needle that was not injecting, and then the next visit when she drilled my tongue.
Yes, I would go to a new dentist if I could at this point, but the bridge frame has already been made, and, even if my HMO thingie would let me, it would still cost like a thousand to get that done again. So I have to finish this with her, but I'm switching to a new one when this procedure is through, lemme tell ya. But I don't wanna go on Saturday, Mommy!!! Sigh. At least I know now to make her use the topical cream before I let her inject the novocaine--that should help some. Oy!
Well, it also depends on Isabel whether the area will even have power on Saturday. We shall see how that goes. I got to go through a tornado 2 years ago and it was terrifying, so I'm not looking forward to this. I hope it downgrades before reaching here. Could this week be any more fun, I ask you?
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And when I talked about laughing gas, she didn't give an answer, but I know years ago I was given nitrous oxide by a dentist. There are other options and frankly, those caps could be wiggled off with less pain over time, if I was told to start working them a day or two before the visit. She just is too busy to give a damn, so I'm going to be sure to really direct things more on Saturday. And for starters, no needles without a shitload of topical cream. And yeah, its quite negligent that this hasn't been the practice throughout.
Saturday is supposed to be the fitting, once the drilling is done. So supposedly there is only one more after that when the finished bridge comes back and they put it in--most likely with more pain, even though there really shouldn't be, and most likely it will have to go back to the lab to have something done to it. /-: