Really afraid now hearing about jaws being broken!

[scared2bthere]

OK I had one appt with a new Dentist here in town and he extracted a top molar for me. The site still hurts and it has been a few months but generally I'd say everything went ok. He pulled it, clipped something, filed some bone, stitched. I think he tried to make it as painless as he could as far as numbing me up well.

FF to now, I need to have a lower molar extracted. It has been bothering me for a long time and it's just about to the point I can't take the pain any more. So my plan was to go back to Dentist here in town. So my husband came home a few days ago and asked me if the Dentist was rough with me at all and he said a friend told him that this guy had broken a few jaws. I was like WHAT?! How can that be? and now I am terrified to go have anyone touch me again. I never even gave that a thought. How possible is that in an extraction in the lower jaw? So scared now. I can't see how that is true but I don't know.

 

[brit]

Regardless of the jaw issue, I would be concerned that the previous extraction site has not healed up yet several months later.
The story may not be true just one of those weird things people delight in saying about the local dentist but why take the risk, find a new one.

Your molar would maybe be savable with a root canal - see an endodontist though rather than a general dentist for that. You need also to get that lack of healing assessed.

 

[scared2bthere]

Regardless of the jaw issue, I would be concerned that the previous extraction site has not healed up yet several months later.
The story may not be true just one of those weird things people delight in saying about the local dentist but why take the risk, find a new one.

Your molar would maybe be savable with a root canal - see an endodontist though rather than a general dentist for that. You need also to get that lack of healing assessed.

A root canal is not a financial option for this tooth. I'd love it if there were enough Dentists around to choose another but the truth is I already went clear out of town to find one and he was wishy washy about the extraction and that is why I ended up with this current Dentist. I'll try to phone the closest towns again but last time it wasn't very productive.

 

[Corky]

OK. I just had seven teeth removed the other day, both uppers and lowers. My dentist didn't use any pressure. Whatever technique he has for removing teeth - and I've got long roots, was brilliant - and all done with just a local anaesthetic. I too would be worried that things from your first extraction are still giving you problems.

 

[scared2bthere]

OK. I just had seven teeth removed the other day, both uppers and lowers. My dentist didn't use any pressure. Whatever technique he has for removing teeth - and I've got long roots, was brilliant - and all done with just a local anaesthetic. I too would be worried that things from your first extraction are still giving you problems.

I'm not in so much pain that I am worried about the prior extraction but the up and coming need and current tooth ache is more so a problem. I've had a lot of upper teeth extracted but only 2 lower and it has been a long time ago on those. One wisdom and the other quite a few years ago. I don't remember them at all. I do know that nearly all extractions seem like the teeth don't come out very easily and it is a LOT of pulling and prying.

 

[Corky]

I'm not in so much pain that I am worried about the prior extraction but the up and coming need and current tooth ache is more so a problem. I've had a lot of upper teeth extracted but only 2 lower and it has been a long time ago on those. One wisdom and the other quite a few years ago. I don't remember them at all. I do know that nearly all extractions seem like the teeth don't come out very easily and it is a LOT of pulling and prying.

The last extraction I got before this lot, probably about 5 or 6 years ago, the offending tooth did not want to give up easily and it took the dentist half an hour to get the thing out. My new dentist took no time at all, no tugging or pulling. I don't know what his technique was but it was almost as if he charmed them out of my gum

Whatever the technique it worked. I didn't even have any pain when the anaesthesia wore off, just a very mild discomfort. I think a lot depends on how good the dentist is. The one I have now is brilliant - and a very nice person too. I don't have much natural teeth left now and I know at least one more has to come out in a few months time but I have no worries whatsoever about that. This is one dentist I intend to hold on to. Even the filling he did was done so quickly and efficiently I barely realised he'd done it and had to ask "Was that a filling you just did?" All he said was before he did it was that he was going to clean up a tooth.

Hard to believe I was once petrified of going to the dentist (I've been off and on this forum for quite a few years now).

Find a really good dentist and you'll be amazed at how much has changed

 

[Tommy6789]

From what I understand, the teeth are attached to the jawbones via ligaments (ie, strong muscular, elastic tissue, the stuff which connects your bones to muscles), and these ligaments are quite easily distached in the normal process of tooth extraction. In a normal healthy person, there's no way you are going to have your jawbone actually broken while having a tooth extracted. There must have either been some very severe underlying complication with the person who said their jawbone had been broken (severely weakened bones, for example), or else they simply misunderstood and are misrepresenting what happened. It's not worth taking this story at face-value and applying it to yourself. Don't read everyone's nightmare stories as if they must apply to you. Dentistry is a highly sophisticated profession, they are trained to know how to handle all the ins and outs.

 

[scared2bthere]

From what I understand, the teeth are attached to the jawbones via ligaments (ie, strong muscular, elastic tissue, the stuff which connects your bones to muscles), and these ligaments are quite easily distached in the normal process of tooth extraction. In a normal healthy person, there's no way you are going to have your jawbone actually broken while having a tooth extracted. There must have either been some very severe underlying complication with the person who said their jawbone had been broken (severely weakened bones, for example), or else they simply misunderstood and are misrepresenting what happened. It's not worth taking this story at face-value and applying it to yourself. Don't read everyone's nightmare stories as if they must apply to you. Dentistry is a highly sophisticated profession, they are trained to know how to handle all the ins and outs.

Well I don't know if they would say or not but I had my hubby call and ask the Dentist's office and they told him that the Dentist didn't break anyone's jaw. This tooth is getting worse so I'll be having to go in soon somewhere

 

[scared2bthere]

The last extraction I got before this lot, probably about 5 or 6 years ago, the offending tooth did not want to give up easily and it took the dentist half an hour to get the thing out. My new dentist took no time at all, no tugging or pulling. I don't know what his technique was but it was almost as if he charmed them out of my gum

Whatever the technique it worked. I didn't even have any pain when the anaesthesia wore off, just a very mild discomfort. I think a lot depends on how good the dentist is. The one I have now is brilliant - and a very nice person too. I don't have much natural teeth left now and I know at least one more has to come out in a few months time but I have no worries whatsoever about that. This is one dentist I intend to hold on to. Even the filling he did was done so quickly and efficiently I barely realised he'd done it and had to ask "Was that a filling you just did?" All he said was before he did it was that he was going to clean up a tooth.

Hard to believe I was once petrified of going to the dentist (I've been off and on this forum for quite a few years now).

Find a really good dentist and you'll be amazed at how much has changed

Sounds wonderful! I'm so glad for you Hopefully this next one of mine will go a little easier.

 

[scared2bthere]

I think someone started a rumor. I have an anxiety disorder and this is the type of thing that freaks me out. I went back to him anyway.