I wasn't really looking for sympathy when I was explaining the trip to the Dentist, but rather just kind of dreading the experience.... And just like Murphy's law, it all kind of went South...
They fit the crown before putting the cement on it and it seemed to fit over the stub they left remaining of the old tooth.... The gal had to pull kind of hard to get the temporary off, and I jumped quite a bit...
But then when they cemented the new crown in, it didn't go on straight... It was like I had a marble in my mouth.... So he fairly quick like had to yank that back out.... Again, I jumped rather high... But by now, they had given me two different shots of the Novacane.. So the pain wasn't as sharp...
He then left the dental assistant to sit and grind down the crown inside where the glue had hardened to near concrete.... While he went off to another room to work on a different patient...
When he came back, he ground down my stub tooth some more carefully fitting the crown in and out several times... Then he filled it with more cement... a lot more...... Which oozed out all over the place inside my mouth...
Once the tooth had set in place, they had to grind and pick the extra cement out and off of all my adjoining teeth.. This took more than another half an hour... They had scheduled thirty minutes for this whole thing, and it took an hour and a half...
Tonight, my mouth feels as though a war has taken place inside.... The numbness is now gone, and I'm sure it will take a number of pain meds to get thru the night....
The dentist was upset that it took so long and messed everything up calling it a bad procedure, as if I had done something wrong.... If this was my first time at these folks, it might well have been the last... But I've been going there for 5 years, so everyone has a bad day once in a while... Biscuit has licked me all over since I came home.... She knows things aren't right..... Tomorrow will be better.. It has to be...
Retired Rod
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Oh, Rod--I'm sorry you had to go through all that and for the idiot dentist to infer it was your fault--it would be the last time I was there too!! There is only ONE dentist in Big Timber and the same thing kind of happened to me years ago and I've never been back to him. He put a crown on a tooth, didn't get it seated correctly, it caused really bad pain requiring pain meds and he couldn't find time in his schedule to see me for an adjustment. Hope you are feeling better today!
ReplyDeleteWhen we went to a dentist in Mesa it was at a little mall just down the road from Usery Mountain. There's a grocery store there and a Mexican restaurant. They were fairly new then and prices were great! Gordon had a tooth pulled there too and I had a cleaning. I think the cleaning with 18 x-rays was $69. Don't know what they'd be like with crowns.
ReplyDeleteYou may not have been asking for sympathy but you certainly deserve it. If I was treated like that by the dentist I wouldn't go back regardless of how long I'd been going to see them. Dental pain is worse than having surgery in my opinion. Sure hope you feel better today.
ReplyDeleteYour story just confirms my worst fears and nightmares about dentists. They were put on this earth to inflict pain and suffering. I think one of the nasty rooms down below is a giant room just full of dentists' chairs with big drills hovering over them.
ReplyDeleteI desperately need dental work and I was afraid before I heard about your troubles. I hope you feel better soon.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a bad way to spend the day, but hopefully that new crown will last a good long time.
ReplyDeleteHowdy Rod,
ReplyDeleteJust remember that DOC HOLIDAY WAS A DENTIST, as well as a gun-fighter !!! My teeth are just about all gone, including a POSTED ONE, which the last dentist I went to PULLED for an 'infected' one !!! Then charged $100 for a filling that fell out the NEXT DAY.. There are two dentists, not THAT one, in this town, who WANT $150, UP-FRONT CASH, to just 'look' at you !!! I don't owe them anything UNTIL THEY DO THE WORK !!! Joyce runs 'chewy' stuff through the blender and that's okay by me !!!
Hope ALL of the pain goes away and you can have a HAPPY DAY !!! Hugs to you both, buddy !!!
I'm feeling better about my dentist in Honduras. I got A LOT of work done, and none of it was that painful. I"m talking 8 crowns with at least 5 of them root canals. I still liked him afterwards. :) I'm going to head to Algodones for my work, probably after the first of the year.. I have dental insurance through work, but I don't really like American dentists.
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