Help - Just back from Dentist - Terrified!

moggylover

MrsE wrote: »

I'm the same.

Hubby has a dentist appointment on Saturday, he wants the tooth out.

Hes such a tight wad if the dentist offered him a reduction for no jab at all, i think he would consider it:rolleyes:

TBH I never thought I would have had one out with just the jab in the mouth, but I was mad with pain & the relief was fantastic, I didn't care.

Actually - not being a tight wad here - but I think the needle scares me more than the pain of having it out without:o .

Blimey though - our dentist doesn't do Saturdays at all - there is an emergency line number - but I understand that you have to travel miles away to get any help - or go to Casualty!

Olympika

moggylover - am not a dentist but I would be a bit wary of trying to 'insist' that they takle both top and bottom wisdom teeth out at the same time. The bottom ones are generally more likely to be problematic and having had all 4 of mine out under local one at a time, I would definitely not have relished the thought of having two at once.

moggylover

Olympika wrote: »

moggylover - am not a dentist but I would be a bit wary of trying to 'insist' that they takle both top and bottom wisdom teeth out at the same time. The bottom ones are generally more likely to be problematic and having had all 4 of mine out under local one at a time, I would definitely not have relished the thought of having two at once.

Thanks for that - I kind of thought afterwards that that might be a bit much in one day - but would do almost anything to avoid that needle!:o

Toothsmith

You could ask them to do both at the same time, but removing a partially errupted lower is a more complicated surgical proceedure, and so I would be very surprised if the bill didn't go up by quite a bit as well.

As I said, I can't comment on the appropriateness of the treatment, as I've not seen you, but if your dentist thinks there will be a fair amount of relief by just taking out the top one, then it's worth going with that first.

moggylover

MrsE wrote: »

)Moggylover

Get him to put the cream on your gum that numbs it before you have the jab ;-)

Thanks for that Mrs E - have managed to stop crying and am begining to stop shaking and at the moment I am rooting through my account/budget trying to see if I can do the £350 thing without anything important going awol - but I guess that means I might not be able to have my hair done next week, and as to eyelash curlers:rotfl: . Oh well, needs must! Happens every time I decide that I do deserve to make a bit of effort with myself:mad: .

Feel like SUCH a child!

moggylover

Toothsmith wrote: »

You could ask them to do both at the same time, but removing a partially errupted lower is a more complicated surgical proceedure, and so I would be very surprised if the bill didn't go up by quite a bit as well.

As I said, I can't comment on the appropriateness of the treatment, as I've not seen you, but if your dentist thinks there will be a fair amount of relief by just taking out the top one, then it's worth going with that first.

Thanks Toothsmith, I suspect that I am going to have to get an industrial dose of valium, a blindfold and the cream Mrs E mentioned, let them handcuff me to the chair and .....well, then just bite the bullet (if you will excuse the pun!).

Is it really true that hospital waiting lists are that bad, and that you can only get the intravenous route privately ? I ask because that is listed as an NHS option for an upper wisdom - but not for a lower one.

bluenose1

I am going into hospital next Wednesday to have a wisdom tooth out. I have to have it done in hospital as it is very high up (not where teeth normally appear.)
I was referred end of May so that should give you some idea of waiting times, though I suppose all areas different.

My dentist did tell me that the hospital don't class wisdom teeth as urgent and that could explain the lengthy waiting list.

In your situation I would begrudge paying £350 (even if I had it.)
The thought of the needle is a lot worse than the actual needle. I have had several cos of fillings and I get all anxious and upset and afterwards always think that wasn't that bad.

Best of luck.

McKneff

come on...moggy lover, if the dentist knows how nervous you are he will react accordingly. the injection lasts only seconds 3 at the most, distract yourself (distraction is a wonderful thing)
sing a loud song in your head, look up the dentists nose, i promise it wont be half as bad as you think it is. this is the worst part, thinking about it.

Dont go down the sedation or valium route, you will be affected totally for hours, The 'local' route and you will be skipping out of the dentists wondering why you worried so much

McKneff

what you should have done was just bitten the bullet and had it done there and then. It would have been all over and done with by now.

Toothsmith

moggylover wrote: »

Is it really true that hospital waiting lists are that bad,

They could be.

You could check yourself with the PCT.

Ask how long it would be for a non urgent, and an urgent wisdom tooth removal as a day case using local anaesthetic.