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Best Dentist I ever had was when I was pregnant. I didnt have a Dentist of my own so they sent me to see the School Dentist. Ooooh, he was lovely, kept calling me Poppet, was very gentle, said what a goooooood girl I was and gave me a squeaky thing to squeeze whenever I wanted him to stop! Oh, happy days! As to my age - a secret which will go to the grave with me, as none of my kids are any use at Maths at all - if they were, they would have worked out that I must have had my first child when I was 9. OC

OC Sorry to hear about your daughter. Hope she makes a good recovery and be damned to the employer. Merry You have TV to watch while prostrate in the dentists chair? Wow! I have been advocating this for years (ever since they stopped bending double to look in one's mouth and started tilting you so far back that all the bits fall down your throat). I did not know anyone had listened to me! Shall tell my dentist (very nice lady) next time I pluck up the courage to visit her (now 3 months overdue on check-up!). When I was a child, none of my first teeth came out unaided. I used to have extractions up to 7 at a time. Well remember being sick after the gas. Got so paranoid that I had to be sedated by my father (fortunately a doctor) before I could even be taken to the dentist otherwise was carried in kicking and screaming. Haven't really changed much! Tina

I have a little computer program to keep tabs on the secret of OC's age........... If she's pregnant now, then she won't be the oldest mother ever, she is past 30 when she had her wisdom teeth out, but she only knows the wooden mallet and a large brandy form of anaesthesia, sooooooooooooo *quickly presses a few buttons*...........she is between 31 and 3246.............Hmmmmmm my program seems to be playing up.............................................. Merry

There's thought...............what about a head transplant?? Merry

Thankyou for your kind thoughts! On the subject of wisdom teeth, all four of mine were impacted and I had to have them out in hospital when I was about 30. It was a week before Xmas, they chucked us all out early because one of the patients in the ward developed Chicken Pox. My wounds got infected and I spent Xmas Day that year in Casualty having the most painful injection I have ever had in my life...but I didnt flinch, they could, at that point, have removed my head without anasthetic and it would have been a relief! On the whole though, this experience was utterly preferable to having the same four teeth out in a Dentist's chair - at least I 'wasn't there' when they were doing it, LOL. And of course, anasthetics etc are miles better than they were when I was 30! (LOL, nearly told you how old I am!) The Surgeon who extracted my teeth was later struck off (not because of me). The loss of my wisdom teeth hasnt made any difference to my intelligence level...dumb as ever! OC

Grrr, don't employers make you sick, OC?? (oh, that was a bad choice of words lol) Sorry to hear your daughter is feeling poorly......I'm sure she will be better soon and you are right about the long term prognosis. All the sites I read (and a Dr I asked, who lives up the road) said if you have the right antibiotics within a month of the infection, but pref within two weeks of it, then apart from the treatment being yucky, you will be fine! Merry

Ann Thankyou for asking, she is feeling very sorry for herself as the medication makes her extremely sick. She has decided (at last) to have a few days off work, since she learned that she has lost her bonus this year, due to three episodes of sick leave...two of those episodes were a half-day visit to the Hospital...the third was them sending her home from work on Wednesday after she almost passed out over her desk. And various medical friends have told me there is no need to panic about Lymes as she is receiving the correct treatment and is therefore unlikely (!) to suffer any long-term effects. OC

I hadnt thought of that Merrys wisdom being removed at the same time as her Teeth. Off to make out a list of help topics

Kate, something needs doing to my wisdom teeth as they hurt all the time (well, one does!)......I just want them taken out under a general and then leave me under whilst they do the reast too.....then leave me under for another few days whilst my body recovers! Ann..............Ooh, there's a thought..........The dentist said I grind my teeth, so that must be when I searching the census for long lost ancestors! Merry

Merry, one time when I went for a checkup my usual dentist was away and I saw somebody else instead. He turned out to have some special title, can't remember what exactly, but it implied he specialised in doing dental work, and he said I needed all my wisdom teeth out and basically all my fillings replaced. I was pregnant at the time, so they couldn't do fillings etc. anyway, and when I went back the next time, and saw my usual dentist, he said none of that needed to be done! So I still have all my wisdom teeth (and still have most of those old fillings though a couple have since been replaced). So perhaps you need a second opinion! Kate.

lol Ann.....Well, I'm very envious of you! OC - I passed out at the bus stop after 4 extractions, aged 9! So, I was braver then.... My first dentist was an ex-heavyweight boxer!! Merry

Yep - I'm a toughie too, don't know when I'm in pain. I once broke two ribs and carried on working for three days before I went to GP. Childbirth a doddle. But teeth....I am a jellified wreck at the mere thought of it all. I put this down to a butcher of a dentist when I was a child, who used a foot-operated drill (aaaarghhhh) and shouted if you as much as twitched. Oh, and being violently sick on the bus after a gas extraction.... My daughters all happily skip off to the Dentist every six months, all have beautiful perfect white teeth and my youngest was actually a Dental Nurse for a while. I know its feeble, I know it is.... OC

you should have asked him to change the Station, it is after all for your benefit not his.

He wasn't that leery, Val! But agree with the control thing. Had a cricket match on the ceiling TV screen.........not really my cup of tea! Merry

lol Ann........I was born with only three, so I probably only have ¾ of my brain too!! Have had one top one out, which leave these two scarey ones! OC - I agree.....it's having even mild pain in and around your head I don't like. I can do child birth (just the gas and air tube thing to grip onto).......and have had one or two unmentionable procedures with no anaesthetic, but teeth..........Aaaaggggghhhh! Merry

thats the bit I hate lying down, I like to feel in control and you dont when you have this man leering over you while in a prostrate position. You will be fine its a shame you never got over your fears long ago and went regularily then it wouldnt be so bad. Good luck for when you do have some work done.

I often think it would all be much less traumatic if our teeth were in our feet. OC

Just! Thanks for asking!! They haven't actually done anything yet!! lol A long ASSESSMENT.....with only very mild poking about. He says I have the two impacted wisdem teeth, three big cavities and 20 years of not seeing the hygienist!! lol (actually I could have told him I have not seen a hygienist ion 41¾ years as they were not invented!) Anyway.....now that visit is over, I am more worried about the next one (what's to do about the wisdom teeth?????!).....and I guess he would rather work on thew big cavities than pull the teeth out!??................. The two things I didn't like at the assessment were having to lie FLAT and having to hold uncomfortable positions (wash your mind out, you know what I mean!) without being able to swallow!! Merry

are you okay ???