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Wino you know wrote:

bravedave wrote:

Mebbe if I drink some of this you'll feel better?

Drink away, son. Drink away.

My bad. I misunderstood my <strike>bartender</strike> dentist.
Turns out you're supposed to drink the Jameson's.
(Actually, just rinse the affected area -- straight to the bottom. Rreapeat as necessary.)
Sorry.
(No harm, no foul?)

Just the word -root canal- sounds painful...not as bad as "back in the day"...you can do it!! Take your ipod and listen to it while being worked on...it really helps!!

bravedave wrote:

Wino you know wrote:

bravedave wrote:

Mebbe if I drink some of this you'll feel better?

Drink away, son. Drink away.

My bad. I misunderstood my <strike>bartender</strike> dentist.
Turns out you're supposed to drink the Jameson's.
(Actually, just rinse the affected area -- straight to the bottom. Rreapeat as necessary.)
Sorry.
(No harm, no foul?)

I had some Christian Brothers Brandy when I went home this morning.
It helped. (A LOT, actually).

PackPhanGirl wrote:Just the word -root canal- sounds painful...not as bad as "back in the day"...you can do it!! Take your ipod and listen to it while being worked on...it really helps!!

What's an ipod?
Is it anything like my 8-track tape player?

pbans wrote:Root canals are often followed with a prescription of vicodin......
which is useful for when you are feeling better....

As I understand 1/2 a vicodin and pudding makes an excellent snack!!

90% of root canals are no more uncomfortable than a simple filling, that's why you never hear about them.
It's that other 10% that gives the treatment the bad rap.
It's never as bad as the original ache!
The typical patient walks in with pain, and leaves feeling much better.
In general, if you have a bad toothache that lingers and keeps you up at night, usually only root canal therepy or extraction will help.
Almost universally, the patient is thrilled to have such a simple procedure performed that results in such a dramatic reduction of discomfort.
The $ are a whole other story-that pain lasts for a while.
I practice inside the city limits of Detroit, and treat several patients per day with root canal or extraction.
Most arrive scared , but return for follow up care filled with thanks.
Then again most are insured
As a matter of fact, they are so pleased with the outcome, that they continue to ignore preventive care, prefering to just wait for more trouble before seeing me again

Longboardn' ASEL&S wrote:90% of root canals are no more uncomfortable than a simple filling, that's why you never hear about them.
It's that other 10% that gives the treatment the bad rap.
It's never as bad as the original ache!
The typical patient walks in with pain, and leaves feeling much better.
In general, if you have a bad toothache that lingers and keeps you up at night, usually only root canal therepy or extraction will help.
Almost universally, the patient is thrilled to have such a simple procedure performed that results in such a dramatic reduction of discomfort.
The $ are a whole other story-that pain lasts for a while.
I practice inside the city limits of Detroit, and treat several patients per day with root canal or extraction.
Most arrive scared , but return for follow up care filled with thanks.
Then again most are insured
As a matter of fact, they are so pleased with the outcome, that they continue to ignore preventive care, prefering to just wait for more trouble before seeing me again

Well, Doc, I'm at the age where I now KNOW I'm not invincible, rather than just thinking it all those years.
(SERIOUSLY, it's a real wonder I made it out of my 20's-another story for another day).
I do have Blue Cross/Blue Shield Insurance, and the University of Iowa (practically across the street from where I work) has an EXCELLENT dental program (in addition to being one of the best health care facilities the world), and, after reading what you've posted, I'm not really afraid of the pain of a root canal, if that's what I need. Just the $$$$.
But, as I said, I AM insured, and, when all is said & done, it's onlymoney.
I can always make more, right?

I admit I was a real fool to ignore that lost filling for the past two years.
The pain is now much more tolerable than last night, and it HASN'T been keeping me awake, but part of the left side of my face is still fairly numb and VERY sensitive to the touch.
I guess when I DO see a dentist this week, for once I'll actually be THANKFUL for modern technology.

Thanks again, Doc.

Wino you know wrote:
I admit I was a real fool to ignore that lost filling for the past two years.

It's very likely that the tooth was decaying under the filling, and that's WHY it fell out. You probably are no worse off now than the day it fell out.
It just took a while for the bacteria to get to the point that the abcess itself is causing the pain, rather than the probably dead by now tooth nerve.
Then again, we do say "ignore your teeth and they will go away"

A painful & costly lesson.
(More painful than costly).

I like that, Al, "ignore your teeth and they'll go away"
Dental Humour!! and True.
I have to have a third root canal, likelly. The first 2 were easier than some fillings and crowns. I also have to have another crown. I have LOTS of insurance, thank heavens.
My mother keeps asking why I don't just have my teeth out and get dentures like she did at my age...

Snowparrot wrote:I like that, Al, "ignore your teeth and they'll go away"
Dental Humour!! and True.

How 'bout this one:
No, you don't have to floss all your teeth, just the ones you want to keep!


Snow, I got up at 5:00 to brush and floss and get an early start to fly with Sam to a grass strip for a big fly-in and breakfast.
Visibility was 10 miles, ceiling 2000 agl. Plenty good enough for this flight over flat terrain with the tallest tower en-route at 300 feet.
By the time we got to our field the ceiling was overcast at 1100 feet.
A half hour later it was 600 feet, then 500', then 300'.
We just got home after giving up on the breakfast fly-in.
NOW it cleared up, oh well. Not a waste of a day, got to hangar fly with all the other weathered-out pilots.
Your Keet back into training yet?

Longboardn' ASEL&S wrote:It's very likely that the tooth was decaying under the filling, and that's WHY it fell out. You probably are no worse off now than the day it fell out.
It just took a while for the bacteria to get to the point that the abcess itself is causing the pain, rather than the probably dead by now tooth nerve.
Then again, we do say "ignore your teeth and they will go away"

Oh, I never ever ignored my teeth. Well, maybe when I was between the ages of 9 and 12, which is why I had fillings in the first place, but ever since my early teen years, I've been brushing and flossing several times every day, including daily AND nightly use of mouth wash. It was almost to the point of me being an "ORTHO-condriac."

Apparently that wasn't enough.