Why are there bloody nerves in teeth anyway?
on Apr 05 in General by DanI just got back from the dentists. She gave me the options of having my tooth extracted or having a root canal. I asked her which she recommended. I could tell that she was fighting back the urge to say “I recommend taking better care of your teeth in the first place you slovenly oaf”, but she did a marvelous job of explaining the various pro’s and cons.
In short having an extraction would make it slightly more difficult to chew and having a root canal would be more expensive and take longer. She did also say that many people choose a root canal for cosmetic reasons, but I imagine that she could tell by the fact I was still wearing half my breakfast down the front of my shirt that this wasn’t really one of my priorities. Besides, the tooth is right at the back so no one will ever know anyway.
I’m going for the extraction. After all there is always the chance the root canal won’t work, and also that the drill will slip and take off the bottom half my jaw. I’m a little distressed by the whole affair though. This will be the first time I’ve had any part of my body removed if you discount stuff that’s just fallen off through natural causes.
What’s more, as I was driving back from the dentists the car in front threw up a stone that put a big chip in my windshield. To add insult to injury it was one of those new VW beetles that had been painted so as to look like Herbie. If you want a classic car you should buy a classic car, not just paint a new one. It’s like if I painted my Skoda Fabia to look like Knightrider.
So by rights I should be filled with misery and despair this morning. However, it’s a lovely sunny day, I’m not back in work until next Thursday, and I have a day of playing with bits of wood in the garden planned. Life’s still good.
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I’m amazed your dentist is giving you the option of extraction. Here, they seem to want to extract all the money out of your dental insurance, health savings account, and finally your check book before they would even consider extraction. Deb recently had a root canal but I laugh at her “minor” pain. I had a botched root canal. That dentist didn’t believe that the tooth still hurt. I switched dentists. He sent me to a specialist. The specialist found the problem and fixed it with some oral surgery. Later there still was a problem and my dentist sent me back to the specialist who in turn sent me to another specialist. This specialist amputated one of the roots. I’m finally at the point that if I have more problems with this same tooth, the dentist has agreed to extract it.
If I ever need another root canal, I’m going to England and let them extract the tooth and bypass all the additional pain and suffering.
I watched a program the other night about English people who flew to America in order to get a doctor to remove their testicles. For no other reason than they didn’t like them very much. There was one guy who had a penis, no testicles, a fake vagina, a “pee hole” and an anus.
And you can’t find someone to take out a tooth?
The reason they weren’t pushing a root canal is that I go to one of the few remaining national health service dentists – i.e. the costs are highly subsidized by the tax payer and the dentist is salaried rather than paid directly by the patient/insurance.
I don’t know if I’m being a bit drastic by getting the extraction, but I’m not convinced it will impede me much in my life (anything that makes it harder for me to stuff my face can only be a good thing anyhow).
When was that program on? Did they blur my face out as promised?
They didn’t blur anything out unfortunately. The guy even got on his back and held his legs in the air so the camera could have a look.
I was deeply traumatized.
Unfortunately I’ve been unable to find the clip on youtube, so you will be spared the nightmare filled nights I’ve had since that fateful day.
I watched that programme too, the reverend who so proudly showed us his new peehole made me think of Sue Pollard on very strong psychoactive drugs plus his socks were awful.
Waves of sympathy dentist-wise.
Keep your chin up… while you still can.
Tough luck on the dentist trip. I’ve always had problems – they make me come every 3 months instead of every six. It’s terrible. But I’m getting better at it.
I actually have a very small mouth – had to have 8 teeth removed just to make room. Of course, if you asked anyone who knows me they’d never say I have a small mouth. They’d probably say it’s rather large, actually.
Hope it works out well for you!
Oh Christ. I’m supposed to go to the dentist. I swear I could have paid off our mortgage with the amount I’ve thrown at dentists over the years (though supermum claims I could have paid it off even sooner if I’d kicked my CD buying habit earlier)
From the BBC
“A dentist has been struck off the register for urinating in his surgery sink and using medical tools to clean his ears and nails.”
He practices about 6 miles away from us.
Ouch! My teeth hurt now…
Yuk. I hate dental work. I having my first crown put on next week. I guess that makes me royalty?