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mcredding
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I decided to make one of these myself...
I had 2 teeth extracted on Thursday, & with those gone, I now only have one remaining posterior tooth in that quadrant. Extractions went well...I think. They gave me a TheraTapper, had a TV screen with nature scenes for me to watch, & played music in the background, & with all the distraction I don't hear much of what's being said. The one tooth left behind - which in the middle of the two being extracted - gets used as a fulcrum. The dentist's hand slips, & then she tells me that something happened to the middle tooth but it's too noisy to hear & I'm too distracted to even remember to ask what she said at the end of the appointment. I go home, & there's no post-operative pain...at all.
Fast-forward to today. I got a sudden, excruciating stab of pain in the remaining tooth. It felt like the tooth was getting ripped out with no anesthesia...& I describe it that way because it felt exactly the same to the pain I feel during extractions when local anesthesia starts to fail. But now, there's no dentist at home, no anesthesia, it's not like I have any way to inject anesthetic. Tylenol & Motrin not working. There's a gaping hole in that remaining tooth & there's blood coming out that hole. I'll have to call for emergency care first thing in the morning.
I know that tooth was marked in my treatment plan for a 2-surface filling, so I know there were caries there pre-extraction, but the hole got twice as big between when I woke up the day of the appt & when I got home. I've got periodontitis too & it's not my dentist fault that her hand slipped, & certainly not her fault that her hand slipped against the tooth giving me pain now, but that doesn't make the pain go away. Nervous about shifting teeth & jaw resorption too; no discussion has been held on how to deal with that, but I have been told we'll get to that part after scaling & root planing.
I had 2 teeth extracted on Thursday, & with those gone, I now only have one remaining posterior tooth in that quadrant. Extractions went well...I think. They gave me a TheraTapper, had a TV screen with nature scenes for me to watch, & played music in the background, & with all the distraction I don't hear much of what's being said. The one tooth left behind - which in the middle of the two being extracted - gets used as a fulcrum. The dentist's hand slips, & then she tells me that something happened to the middle tooth but it's too noisy to hear & I'm too distracted to even remember to ask what she said at the end of the appointment. I go home, & there's no post-operative pain...at all.
Fast-forward to today. I got a sudden, excruciating stab of pain in the remaining tooth. It felt like the tooth was getting ripped out with no anesthesia...& I describe it that way because it felt exactly the same to the pain I feel during extractions when local anesthesia starts to fail. But now, there's no dentist at home, no anesthesia, it's not like I have any way to inject anesthetic. Tylenol & Motrin not working. There's a gaping hole in that remaining tooth & there's blood coming out that hole. I'll have to call for emergency care first thing in the morning.
I know that tooth was marked in my treatment plan for a 2-surface filling, so I know there were caries there pre-extraction, but the hole got twice as big between when I woke up the day of the appt & when I got home. I've got periodontitis too & it's not my dentist fault that her hand slipped, & certainly not her fault that her hand slipped against the tooth giving me pain now, but that doesn't make the pain go away. Nervous about shifting teeth & jaw resorption too; no discussion has been held on how to deal with that, but I have been told we'll get to that part after scaling & root planing.