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I have just come back from the dentist physically shaking - and I have to go back again because it is not finished. And I should mention that I have a very good pain threshold - I can put up with a lot before it bothers me.
I had a niggly tooth, lower - 2nd from back, and mentioned it foolishly to my new dentist. He could not see anything wrong with it, just like my previous dentist and I had told him about it for at least 3 years. My new dentist x-rayed the area, and when he zoomed in quite a lot, he said he thought he could see a TINY hole in between the back 2 teeth. The tooth used to give me a shooting pain if it had hot/cold/air touch the area - but rarely as I had adjusted and if I put my tongue on the area it stopped straight away.
When I went to get it filled today, I had the injection for that tooth and another on the other side. When he started to do the sore tooth he had to stop, because the air from the sucker made me jump from the pain. So he gave me 2 more needles and worked on the other one which was fine. When he again went back to the sore tooth, the air hurt it again and he gave me 2 more needles. Then he started drilling, and I could feel EVERYTHING - it hurt like my tooth normally did if irritated. So he gave me more injections. Then tried again. And it was sore but I put up with it until it really zinged me - then we tried again and same thing. So I had more injections (I felt all but 2 of the total injections btw). Then he kept drilling and it became100 times worse than the little zing I got sometimes - it was excruciating and got worse every time. He turned the water off because he thought that might be irritating - but it was the drill I'm sure because the air sucker wasn't bothering me.
So after roughly 10 injections all up, a mouth that I can't feel most of right to my ear, it got more and more painful each time - to the point where the pain lingered after he stopped the drill. And as time ran out, he stopped working on me by filling it with a 'temporary filling' (a hunk of white paste that looks dreadful) and I HAVE TO GO BACK AND ENDURE IT AGAIN UNTIL IT IS DONE!!!!!!! I do not think I can do it - is there ANYTHING I can do to help next time - this feels like a nerve thing to me? Drugs? There has to be something!!!
(it is now 2 hours since I left the surgery and I still do not have feeling returning on that side of my mouth btw - the other one has been fine for at least an hour and a half but this one doesn't seem to be easing off at all yet)
Please help.
I had a niggly tooth, lower - 2nd from back, and mentioned it foolishly to my new dentist. He could not see anything wrong with it, just like my previous dentist and I had told him about it for at least 3 years. My new dentist x-rayed the area, and when he zoomed in quite a lot, he said he thought he could see a TINY hole in between the back 2 teeth. The tooth used to give me a shooting pain if it had hot/cold/air touch the area - but rarely as I had adjusted and if I put my tongue on the area it stopped straight away.
When I went to get it filled today, I had the injection for that tooth and another on the other side. When he started to do the sore tooth he had to stop, because the air from the sucker made me jump from the pain. So he gave me 2 more needles and worked on the other one which was fine. When he again went back to the sore tooth, the air hurt it again and he gave me 2 more needles. Then he started drilling, and I could feel EVERYTHING - it hurt like my tooth normally did if irritated. So he gave me more injections. Then tried again. And it was sore but I put up with it until it really zinged me - then we tried again and same thing. So I had more injections (I felt all but 2 of the total injections btw). Then he kept drilling and it became100 times worse than the little zing I got sometimes - it was excruciating and got worse every time. He turned the water off because he thought that might be irritating - but it was the drill I'm sure because the air sucker wasn't bothering me.
So after roughly 10 injections all up, a mouth that I can't feel most of right to my ear, it got more and more painful each time - to the point where the pain lingered after he stopped the drill. And as time ran out, he stopped working on me by filling it with a 'temporary filling' (a hunk of white paste that looks dreadful) and I HAVE TO GO BACK AND ENDURE IT AGAIN UNTIL IT IS DONE!!!!!!! I do not think I can do it - is there ANYTHING I can do to help next time - this feels like a nerve thing to me? Drugs? There has to be something!!!
(it is now 2 hours since I left the surgery and I still do not have feeling returning on that side of my mouth btw - the other one has been fine for at least an hour and a half but this one doesn't seem to be easing off at all yet)
Please help.