Just Had A Tooth Pulled

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(11-05-2020, 04:56 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Two days ago, a tooth on the bottom front starts hurting.

I can tolerate pain pretty well, so I took some Tylenol and figured it would go away. It worked for a little bit but then they'd wear off and the pain would be at an 8, which, for me, means a lot of pain.

This morning, my mom calls the dentist and they can get me in. I obviously don't have dental insurance so I had to just bite the bullet and pay out-of-pocket at this urgent care dental place in this shopping mall.

He numbed up the area, which it made it feel kind of numb, but it didn't feel like it did much for the pain!

It was bleeding a lot and I was drooling all over myself, which a lot of it was blood.

He couldn't get it out and kept switching between instruments, which hurt a lot, but he finally got it out and the pain is getting better and better!

Even in pain, the I dropped a "that's what she said comment" at something the nurse said and the doctor actually said the same thing I did as I started typing it!



(This nurse was young and more vulgar than the both of us, so don't think we were harassing her or anything! )

All 4 of my Wisdom Teeth came in perfectly when I was a teenager, but one cracked and got blown out last year and was causing a ton of pain in February (top-right).

Then my bottom-left one started getting some black decay and I was getting swollen gums in May. After 2 weeks of Amoxycillin, the swelling came back almost right away and they got me in for an emergency extraction. I get in, super professional and awesome, the doctor says, "we'll get it out in 2 or 3 drills." They didn't put me fully out, only localised anesthetic and then, it began! What was supposed to be 20 minutes and 2-3 drills, turned into 53 minutes and *7* drills of my tooth (I have, "black man," teeth), until it was finally out.

Got the blown out one and the one below it out in August and they put me completely out; I think I fell asleep lol.

Dentist-work is fun!