My Face hurts!
 

I lost a filling and I am in pain!
Empathy and cards- that's what I want!
Show me you care!

^attention whores thread

*holding tounge*

^how much pain are you in? thread

i care-- mr zero is just jealous-- i 've had enough pain in my teeth to last a lifetime so i know what you're talking about :eek:

got an appointment at the dentist yet?

Thank you, Frieda.
Yes, I get fixed first thing tomorrow.
God, I wish I still drank.

good news! you can start again!


never a better time than the present.

Nah, don't start just yet...

Maybe tomorrow you'll feel much better.

After this:

I had three wisdom tooth extractions followed by a couple of months of infection, swelling, osteomyelitis, and even a short bout of trigeminal neuralgia. When the dental surgeon put me under IV sedation to debride away the osteomyelitis, I awoke with strap-bruises across my sternum and upper arms from trying to escape the chair whilst unconscious. All this took place over Christmas (inlaws visited for five days and I cooked for seven throughout), and also incidentally over the period that I left one (20-year) career and started another.

Lost filling, eh. That's terrible! Get well soon!

poor trish.

I had a bout of trigeminal neuralgia that didn't let up for three years (cranial VII was involved as well just for good measure) and I can't imagine dealing with in-laws and christmas cooking on top of all that. what a trooper!

as an aside, a dear friend of mine recently had an upper wisdom extraction go wrong and he ended up with a neat hole punched between his hard palate and his sinuses. I asked him if he could floss it with a piece of cooked spaghetti, and he replied that he'd rather not die of sepsis.

you know why a barber's pole is red-and-white striped, right?

- to mimic the bloodstained bandages traditionally wrapped around a pole to advertise dental extraction (and other surgical) services :)

Well, I did have Percocet. :p