AIBU to think dentaltreatment is absolutely barbaric?

[WetAugust]

Sitting here with a frozen mouth after a horrific session at the dentists.

When you think about it it involves injections into your gums followed by drilling into part of your head!

I shot up in the air involuntarily twice went he touched a nerve that wasn't quite numb enough.

I then had to sit down for about 20 minutes after as I was shaking so much.

And he is a very good dentist - the best I've had.

i just find it totaly barbaric.

My mouth hurts just reading this.

YANBU BTW!

mm i sort of don't mind it now - i must like pain.

my dad told me that when he was a little boy he had to have a tooth out and they clamped his mouth open - put him off dentists for years.

Dentists hygiene worries me, i always get a cold type thing when i've had any dental treatment.

SEASTRA! That's barbaric.

What's SEASTRA

Yes it is totally barbaric, and the fact they charge you an arm and a leg for it aswell just rubs salt in the wound.

Hint - you won't want to watch Marathon Man any time soon.

i think she means me

Ooops sorry Seastra - just proves I'm still in a state of post-treatment shock

I used to love having a filling as a child as you used to get this gas mask that gave you the most incredible high. Now you get an injection that means you can't talk properly for a couple of hours and it still bloody hurts. I hate it. Gone are the days when I would deliberately crunch on boiled sweets so I could get a filling.

Actually do you reckon the gas they used to give you is the same as the gas they give you in labour? Please say yes, I can cope with the thought of my impending labour if thats the case.

I think it is, laughing gas they called it, you don't get it anymore though, haven't seen it in dentists for 20 years.

I get awfully shaky with racing heart following dental work, although am not bothered whatsoever with going to dentist. Dentist thinks it's adrenaline in the numbing agent so we're going to go adrenaline-free from now on.

Laughing gas is the same mixture as entonox I think.

Mine is lovely,

but I had to have the private one once who was of the 'if they haven't looked after their teeth, punish them' disposition

he proceeded to do the work badly, without anaesthetic, whilst delivering a lecture on why he was doing so.

That was barbaric.

When I was trying to make the most of free NHS dental treatment for pregnant and new mums after DC1s birth I had a lovely dentist. He was German and spoke excellent, though somewhat eccentric, English.

Imagine, if you will, lying back in the chair while a handsome man probes your mouth and asks in a strong German accent:

"Did you have much analgesic relief during your confinement?"

I ponder this and manage to mumble "Er, not really it was quite quick so I didn't have anything."

He looks delighted, as if I have passed some kind of test and announces: "Mos surely, you have an excellent forbearance of pain! I will be proceeding to block these cavities without anaesthetic, then?"

I told him that at least the pain of labour was off-set by the safe arrival of my baby and I didn't really see having 3 fillings in the same way.

YANBU.I had dd1 with no pain relief,but my recent dental treatment was so painful that tears were pouring down my face.The injections were awful and hardly numbed anything,and I just about leapt out of the chair in agony when she hit a nerve.Then the bloody filling dropped out and I had to go through it all over again a few days later.

I told dh afterwards that I'd rather have injections in my fanjo than in my mouth.