The Bluestocking, where the cheese is plentiful and the Champagne is on Boiledbeetle

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Welcome one and all. Quick précis - women's pub, rodent staff, apparently we're sane.

Yes, my original ones were more than 35 years old at that point, so I expected him to tell me I could have them re-done for my 100th birthday!

I think he was joking 🤔

I'm sure that he was!

About needing someone at home overnight after you’ve had sedation: in my local hospital if you’re in for a colonoscopy you have to give them the phone number of whoever will be with you when you arrive. The hospital rings them when you’re ready to go home and they have to come up to the ward to collect you. No getting in a taxi and pretending there will be someone at home, or your responsible adult waiting at the main doors with the car, they have to (pay to) park properly. It’s a careful system.

My wisdom teeth all appeared when I was a late teen/young adult. One was partially erupted and the dentist said I’d need it out but somehow my teeth must have all shuffled forward on that side and gave it room after all. But I’d had a premolar out of each quarter and braces as a teen so I suppose that created enough space for the wisdoms.

An older cousin of my mother’s was visiting us when her wisdom teeth deigned to start appearing - she was in her 70s.

What happens if someone really doesn’t have anyone to do this - do they enlist a social worker or suchlike?

My DD is a similar age, and the NHS kindly gave me a free root canal procedure and crown in the year after she was born.

The crown was only replaced recently, and that was because the root canal had failed.

I’m wondering this too. I’d have to sort things well in advance so my sister could stay over, but if she couldn’t do it it would be a really big favour to ask a friend.

And I still have one put in for free by my NHS dentist sometime in the 80s, when the nerve serving my right front tooth started to die. I had a bad fall in primary school and loosened my lovely new front tooth. It stabilised but must have sustained enough damage to be a problem eventually.

I’m not sure. I was in a similar position years ago when DH was away, and they put me on a ward after a ?gastroscopy. The ward got busy later so I was moved up to a very quiet one, which I was told was for plastic surgery. I think.

There is at least one bit of my local hospital (Addenbrooke’s) which isn’t easy to find on the map. I wonder if they are mostly used for research trials, so someone else is paying rather than the NHS.

I’ve still got a crown from an NHS dentist in the late 90s, when I fell over & smashed one of my front teeth. I forget it’s there most of the time.

I once offered to do it for a single friend who needed a colonoscopy but she had already asked someone else to be there.

Her bedroom is in a converted attic so I would have slept on a different floor, in one of the rooms her children had when they were younger. I did wonder how much use I’d be if she became ill - I’d probably not have noticed if I’d been asleep.

Edit: In my situation it would not have been a big thing, but we are both retired and have no children at home, so no need to take time off work or arrange childcare.

In her 70s? Wow!

I had a couple of teeth pulled out when I was a teen, in order to allow them to be straightened. They gradually closed up and then went squint again. I'm guessing that the wisdom teeth were to blame.

Our local authority used to organise a temp place in a care home for people who were medically fit for discharge, but couldn't immediately be home alone.

I'm wondering whether it would be possible to hire a carer for an overnight.

I see a commercial opportunity here!

And teeth..my DD, aged almost 42, still has two milk teeth that show no signs of shifting.

If there's any lone Bluestockingers down this way who need a sedated procedure, I'm up for being your plus one. Mates rates. OK, free to you!

I had my last two milk teeth pulled at the grand age of 28, but 42 is seriously impressive!

I had all my wisdom teeth taken out under general anaesthetic at a hospital in? I want to say Manchester ? But it may not have been, when I was about 12/13.

The thing I remember most is on the way home that evening we got a cup of tomato soup from a cafe on the way to the train. I don't know wether it was because I hadn't eaten or drunk for 24 hours or if it was actually amazing soup but over 40 years later it remains the most wonderful tomato soup I have ever had.

And thanks to this thread I have remembered to check when my 6 monthly check up is...

tomorrow at 10.15.

How's that for fantastic timing!

As an alumnus of Birmingham university in the 80’s it was almost as if you couldn’t graduate if you hadn’t had all 4 wisdom teeth out at the university dental centre! Almost everyone I knew there had them pulled! I often wonder why….

My cousin had your set! And someone elses. She had to have all four wisdom teeth removed 3 times!

😳

She probably had mine then!

Yikes teeth talk give me a panics attack !!!!

I'm no fan of dental work. Hate it.

On an unrelated note, the committee meeting tonight that I was dreading was a bloody hard slog to get anything useful done, but it wasn't as bad as it might have been. There is one woman on said committee who never contributes anything useful and makes inane comments, and then sulks if no one listens to her with the gravitas she thinks she deserves. She must waste a good ten minutes per meeting, which amounts to an hour and a half of my time each year.

Not that I'm resentful or anything...