in the last couple months, I had a Bad tooth. that had an infection, I was given Amoxicillin for the infection, in which I am allergic too. Also related to the Bad tooth I think it infected a lymph node that had to be removed. finally the Tooth was so bad that it Had to be removed. But on the plus side I lost 25 lbs & kept it off!
I thought it was bad the one black tooth suddenly cracked open. Apparently it exploded in a way that sent crap to the adjacent three. It was so bad, a replacement tooth needed replacing.
Man if it wasn’t so urgent, I would have had that fixed at a hospital under my insurance, instead of waking up my neighbors like some Mafia don getting midnight plastic surgery.
Root canal. Check. [caught an elbow in the mouth while playing football in high school and tooth was knocked silly]
Tooth extraction. Check.
Wisdom teeth out. Check. [according to the dentist, didn’t need them, anyway]
But those were all when I was much younger and they were relatively minor compared to any work I have done now.
Now aged with hearing issues from “middle ear bone fusion” (according to the ENT), any sound in my body is conducted through bones to my inner ear. If I bother to listen for it, I can hear my heartbeat. [Helpful for identifying arrhythmia.] Getting my teeth drilled for a filling is like having a jack hammer inside my head, and there is no way I’ve found of muffling it. Much worse than any of the other cases listed above.
When I was a kid I had too many teeth for the size of my mouth. I lost count of the number of extractions and oral surgeries. I do know when my wisdom teeth were taken out they used the opportunity to remove a total of 10 teeth. I’m lucky my parents (who were not well off) saw the value in a good set of chompers. I’m also blessed with tough enamel. I’m in my late 50s and I’ve never had a cavity.
Busted out 3 of my top front teeth in a bicycle accident when I was 15. One of them was so smashed that I needed a root canal, had a post put in, and then got a full porcelain crown. The other two just needed some partial crowns.
Recently I had the full crown removed, replaced the post (it was damaged), and got a white gold crown to replace the old white porcelain one. Not everybody’s idea of rizz, but I’m just weird enough to love it.
I have had all of the above. The gum graft was the most painful. The getting a new tooth with the post and all that, which was after a failed root canal and crown, took the longest. As in many visits, months apart. Each step caused a lengthy wait. I guess he was cautious because the crown failed. And of course all my wisdom teeth had to be cut out when I was 18. And I had too much tooth for my mouth size so they pulled 8 when I was about 12 and got braces. So yeah, dental stuff I got covered. I hope from here n out it’s just cleanings.
Going over the class 4 rapids (that one is in the Deliverance movie - Nantahala River) we dumped the canoe (another time we made it over but had to pull over as we had so much water in the canoe) and the canoe paddle hit me in the mouth. Tooth was killing me for a week. A year later a big infection in the bone as apparently I killed my tooth at the time. It was open and draining all that summer. Each time they cleaned out the root (think drill just sitting on a nerve although they didn’t use a drill while they cleaned out the root and novoain didn’t even begin to do anything) and capped it I was back 4 or 5 hours later to uncap it due to pressure building up and thus pain. Finally they carved the bone away that had the infection in it and I finally had the root canal. Then decades later I was biting into chocolate and the tooth broke off (root was being reabsorbed by my body). Needed 2 bone graphs before I could have an implant. It’s fine now and I hope it stays that way.
As a kid my parents had my tonsils removed out patient under a local and the pain of 6 long needles injecting novocain in the roof of my mouth and back of my mouth was excruciating. I have not done well with mouth pain ever since that as that was so very painful and traumatizing. Then at 20 the root canal made that situation so much worse.
Evulsion. Baseball knocked out two teeth and severely damaged one next to it. That actuality wasn’t that painful - it was instantly numb, and by the time it wasn’t, I was on good drugs. Remedying it hurt more.
Up to that point (at age 34), the most dental work I’d had done was a single filing. Now I’ve had implants, root canals, multiple crowns, and even braces. The most painful part (except maybe to the wallet – ouch) was getting the implant posts put in. My upper mouth was broken as a result of the evulsion, and the roof was severely bruised. The injection to deaden that area caused a grown man to whimper in pain.
I was genetically cursed, both my parents had full dentures in their 50s. I now have full mouth implant dentures (all on four) after having the last few original teeth surgically removed at one time. The bright spot is that I never need any more work done.
@olperfesser Nice!! I’ve been considering this… did you get the one-day treatment? With the amount of dental work the people on the commercials needed it seems like it’s a myth but if it’s true…
At age 11, without my prior knowledge, consent, or even any discussion, my parents had my wisdom teeth removed. When I told the people at school that this was why I had been out for 2 days, they flat did not believe me. There were multiple repercussions from this, in part because of the fact that I had signed up for a day of reserved use of one of the facilities in the graphics lab, and you had to do that at the start of the six week period.
I’ve had my wisdom teeth out, that was not fun, I got a really bad dry socket from smoking. Root canal bc I was lucky enough to have a hairline fracture in my tooth for no reason. Then the root canal went bad at age 22 and I had to the tooth extracted and two years later I was able to finally get my post for my new tooth. The tooth extraction was excruciating. The oral and Maxillofacial surgeon said it was one of the top three hardest teeth he’s ever extracted bc it was broken into over a hundred of pieces and infected. If I thought the infection hurt before I had no idea what mouth/dental pain was. Then I had just come off a drug that sent my body into menopause for six months (for endometriosis) a year or so before that and they knew there were gonna be problems with bone loss but they didn’t know what they were. So bc of the drug for menopause (we were all guessing) my mouth wouldn’t heal. The infection took 2 months, the bone took like a year and half and I still have problems to this day with the gum tissue from where they made the incision. It’s still very thin, like it didn’t heal correctly, I have to be super careful when I eat chips or something sharp. It was not a fun experience and I don’t want another one for shits and giggles.
I got sucker-punched in a bar about 25 years ago, and had my jaw wired shut. They don’t attach the appliances to your teeth. Instead they attach them with glorified twisty-ties that they run through your gums. Most miserable 8 weeks of my life.
not me, but a few years back, My uncle had all his teeth Pulled to get full dentures… getting the “fancy” kind with the magnetic posts mounted to his jaw bone…
well… once they got everything out, his jaw needed some rebuilding with Cadaver bone grafts before they could install the posts…
fill in the bone grafts, wait 6 months for that to heal up before they can actually put in the posts/and his new teeth…
6 months without Teeth… and open wounds in your mouth… No solid food all that time… then install the posts, another few months of healing time, then almost a year after the process started, he finally got his new chompers…
could have been worse…
he hasn’t developed the clotting disorder that runs in our family.
( Grandpa and his Brothers all had it and after approx age 70, They no longer Clotted. at all… yeah fun…)
His uncle (My Great Uncle) when he had all of his teeth pulled to get dentures, his face below the nose, and whole neck were one GIANT Bloody red/blue bruise…
you’d almost think it was some kind of weird horror movie makeup where his skin had been peeled off…
Started life with 3 wisdom teeth. Had them removed one at a time, several years in between. First 2, didn’t follow aftercare, walked outside and immediately lit up a cigarette, picked up Starbucks and drank it with a straw. Did just fine. Was older with the last one. Had already quit smoking, followed aftercare perfectly, no straws… ended up getting dry socket anyways. Had to keep getting packed with clove. it was awful.
3 teeth extracted and too many root canals to count. i miss the days when at least you’d get some opiates as a prize
8 teeth extracted and one big implant replacing them.
in the last couple months, I had a Bad tooth. that had an infection, I was given Amoxicillin for the infection, in which I am allergic too. Also related to the Bad tooth I think it infected a lymph node that had to be removed. finally the Tooth was so bad that it Had to be removed. But on the plus side I lost 25 lbs & kept it off!
@mycya4me 25 lbs!?! Was it a tooth or a tusk?
Four root canals this year.
I thought it was bad the one black tooth suddenly cracked open. Apparently it exploded in a way that sent crap to the adjacent three. It was so bad, a replacement tooth needed replacing.
Man if it wasn’t so urgent, I would have had that fixed at a hospital under my insurance, instead of waking up my neighbors like some Mafia don getting midnight plastic surgery.
Root canal. Check. [caught an elbow in the mouth while playing football in high school and tooth was knocked silly]
Tooth extraction. Check.
Wisdom teeth out. Check. [according to the dentist, didn’t need them, anyway]
But those were all when I was much younger and they were relatively minor compared to any work I have done now.
Now aged with hearing issues from “middle ear bone fusion” (according to the ENT), any sound in my body is conducted through bones to my inner ear. If I bother to listen for it, I can hear my heartbeat. [Helpful for identifying arrhythmia.] Getting my teeth drilled for a filling is like having a jack hammer inside my head, and there is no way I’ve found of muffling it. Much worse than any of the other cases listed above.
Uh. A cleaning? I’ve yet to experience a cavity and I still have all my wisdom teeth.
@show_the_maw I brush twice a day, floss, don’t drink soda, etc. but always have 1-2 cavities every time I visit the dentist.
Also I somehow had five wisdom teeth to remove.
Sitting in the waiting room
When I was a kid I had too many teeth for the size of my mouth. I lost count of the number of extractions and oral surgeries. I do know when my wisdom teeth were taken out they used the opportunity to remove a total of 10 teeth. I’m lucky my parents (who were not well off) saw the value in a good set of chompers. I’m also blessed with tough enamel. I’m in my late 50s and I’ve never had a cavity.
@tweezak
That’s crazy. That must have hurt a bunch as a little kid.
@Star2236 Braces were worse. I hated going in to have them tightened. It would ache horribly for a long time.
Busted out 3 of my top front teeth in a bicycle accident when I was 15. One of them was so smashed that I needed a root canal, had a post put in, and then got a full porcelain crown. The other two just needed some partial crowns.
Recently I had the full crown removed, replaced the post (it was damaged), and got a white gold crown to replace the old white porcelain one. Not everybody’s idea of rizz, but I’m just weird enough to love it.
I have had all of the above. The gum graft was the most painful. The getting a new tooth with the post and all that, which was after a failed root canal and crown, took the longest. As in many visits, months apart. Each step caused a lengthy wait. I guess he was cautious because the crown failed. And of course all my wisdom teeth had to be cut out when I was 18. And I had too much tooth for my mouth size so they pulled 8 when I was about 12 and got braces. So yeah, dental stuff I got covered. I hope from here n out it’s just cleanings.
Going over the class 4 rapids (that one is in the Deliverance movie - Nantahala River) we dumped the canoe (another time we made it over but had to pull over as we had so much water in the canoe) and the canoe paddle hit me in the mouth. Tooth was killing me for a week. A year later a big infection in the bone as apparently I killed my tooth at the time. It was open and draining all that summer. Each time they cleaned out the root (think drill just sitting on a nerve although they didn’t use a drill while they cleaned out the root and novoain didn’t even begin to do anything) and capped it I was back 4 or 5 hours later to uncap it due to pressure building up and thus pain. Finally they carved the bone away that had the infection in it and I finally had the root canal. Then decades later I was biting into chocolate and the tooth broke off (root was being reabsorbed by my body). Needed 2 bone graphs before I could have an implant. It’s fine now and I hope it stays that way.
As a kid my parents had my tonsils removed out patient under a local and the pain of 6 long needles injecting novocain in the roof of my mouth and back of my mouth was excruciating. I have not done well with mouth pain ever since that as that was so very painful and traumatizing. Then at 20 the root canal made that situation so much worse.
My most extreme… Braces as performed by the orthodontist teams in the mid 1970s. Oh the years of joy that process took!
@be2u Oh my gosh, didn’t you just love going in and have the braces tightened!
Evulsion. Baseball knocked out two teeth and severely damaged one next to it. That actuality wasn’t that painful - it was instantly numb, and by the time it wasn’t, I was on good drugs. Remedying it hurt more.
Up to that point (at age 34), the most dental work I’d had done was a single filing. Now I’ve had implants, root canals, multiple crowns, and even braces. The most painful part (except maybe to the wallet – ouch) was getting the implant posts put in. My upper mouth was broken as a result of the evulsion, and the roof was severely bruised. The injection to deaden that area caused a grown man to whimper in pain.
I was genetically cursed, both my parents had full dentures in their 50s. I now have full mouth implant dentures (all on four) after having the last few original teeth surgically removed at one time. The bright spot is that I never need any more work done.
@olperfesser Nice!! I’ve been considering this… did you get the one-day treatment? With the amount of dental work the people on the commercials needed it seems like it’s a myth but if it’s true…
At age 11, without my prior knowledge, consent, or even any discussion, my parents had my wisdom teeth removed. When I told the people at school that this was why I had been out for 2 days, they flat did not believe me. There were multiple repercussions from this, in part because of the fact that I had signed up for a day of reserved use of one of the facilities in the graphics lab, and you had to do that at the start of the six week period.
I’ve had my wisdom teeth out, that was not fun, I got a really bad dry socket from smoking. Root canal bc I was lucky enough to have a hairline fracture in my tooth for no reason. Then the root canal went bad at age 22 and I had to the tooth extracted and two years later I was able to finally get my post for my new tooth. The tooth extraction was excruciating. The oral and Maxillofacial surgeon said it was one of the top three hardest teeth he’s ever extracted bc it was broken into over a hundred of pieces and infected. If I thought the infection hurt before I had no idea what mouth/dental pain was. Then I had just come off a drug that sent my body into menopause for six months (for endometriosis) a year or so before that and they knew there were gonna be problems with bone loss but they didn’t know what they were. So bc of the drug for menopause (we were all guessing) my mouth wouldn’t heal. The infection took 2 months, the bone took like a year and half and I still have problems to this day with the gum tissue from where they made the incision. It’s still very thin, like it didn’t heal correctly, I have to be super careful when I eat chips or something sharp. It was not a fun experience and I don’t want another one for shits and giggles.
Two separate implants
I got sucker-punched in a bar about 25 years ago, and had my jaw wired shut. They don’t attach the appliances to your teeth. Instead they attach them with glorified twisty-ties that they run through your gums. Most miserable 8 weeks of my life.
Prior to radiation for cancer I had to have 4 molars extracted and a wisdom tooth cut out. The things we do to survive.
2nd worst: Extraction of a supernumerary tooth…aka: I had an extra permanent tooth growing where it had no business being so it had to be removed.
Worst: Extraction of all my teeth at once on my way to getting dentures then implants.
not me, but a few years back, My uncle had all his teeth Pulled to get full dentures… getting the “fancy” kind with the magnetic posts mounted to his jaw bone…
well… once they got everything out, his jaw needed some rebuilding with Cadaver bone grafts before they could install the posts…
fill in the bone grafts, wait 6 months for that to heal up before they can actually put in the posts/and his new teeth…
6 months without Teeth… and open wounds in your mouth… No solid food all that time… then install the posts, another few months of healing time, then almost a year after the process started, he finally got his new chompers…
could have been worse…
he hasn’t developed the clotting disorder that runs in our family.
( Grandpa and his Brothers all had it and after approx age 70, They no longer Clotted. at all… yeah fun…)
His uncle (My Great Uncle) when he had all of his teeth pulled to get dentures, his face below the nose, and whole neck were one GIANT Bloody red/blue bruise…
you’d almost think it was some kind of weird horror movie makeup where his skin had been peeled off…
Started life with 3 wisdom teeth. Had them removed one at a time, several years in between. First 2, didn’t follow aftercare, walked outside and immediately lit up a cigarette, picked up Starbucks and drank it with a straw. Did just fine. Was older with the last one. Had already quit smoking, followed aftercare perfectly, no straws… ended up getting dry socket anyways. Had to keep getting packed with clove.
it was awful.
It’s wisdom teeth out for me on both sides.