Toothache...AAARGH

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Alfie168

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I'm so hissed off. This weekend is/was the only weekend a year I get to go racing in the Solent...and I get toothache. Saw an emergency dentist on Friday and been on antibiotics since then,,but tonight its taken a turn for the worse and I'm making a trip oop north to Harrogate to see my own dentist tomorrow.

Is she can patch me up/get me right for this Friday I will be delighted, but I'm not very hopeful. I don't actually know what she can do except pull the bu**ers out, and I don't want that really.

I'm really quite upset as I don't get many chances to sail 'proper' these days.

Damn and Double Damn (with the occasional OOOWW!!! thrown in)

Tim /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
String and a door handle .. Tie string to tooth .. Tie other end to door handle .. Have argument with SWMBO .. Should work .. Get some flowers just in case .. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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"......String and a door handle .. Tie string to tooth .. Tie other end to door handle.....

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Just check out FIRST which way the door opens....
... or you might just add a broken nose to your woes!

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just yank it out you wimp ! iv pulled 3 out over the last few years and if its a thumper as soon as its out the pain is gone straight away then just rinse out with salt water a few times and done with nothing to pay .
 
Well dont read the late Shane Actons book then-Mid Atlantic diy dentistry involving a dwindling supply of painkillers, copious ammounts of wine and a pair of pliers..
I expect that if he had had access to a door and an angry swimbo it would have been quicker
 
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just yank it out you wimp ! iv pulled 3 out over the last few years and if its a thumper as soon as its out the pain is gone straight away then just rinse out with salt water a few times and done with nothing to pay .

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I'm not that much of a wimp, I did remove my own stitches after I had my wisdom teeth out. Now that was quite exciting.

If there is a chance of saving the choppers i'l take it, though it has got a lot worse overnight and i'm up to my eyeballs in Ibuprofen at present.

Now get back to your day job at the Royal College of Surgeons /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Tim
 
If you're on Antibitics it's cos you have an infection. They won't be able to do an extraction as the infection is Acid and the Anaesthetic is Alkali, thereofre they won't be able to numb you.

Sounds like poss an abcess? In which case you could need rct, once it's opened up it should get better
(but don't quote me - I don't want a lawsuit!)

Good luck
 
Well once I got to my own dentist in Harrogate yesterday things went quickly and smoothly.

Identify offending tooth (Quick squirt of cold air did that) 2 Gallons best local anaesthetic. Drill hole in tooth. remove nerve. temporary dressing. Back at work today.

I honestly didn't feel a thing, but I was a bit groggy for half an hour..I think that was stress and tension, and a tiny touch of shock. Didn't stop me going into Betty's and buying half a dozen Fat Rascals to bring home though before driving back to Boston.

She reckoned I probably didnt have an infection and it was probably the dying nerve collapsing into the base of the canal giving the pain. In fact she wasn't best pleased i'd been given antibiotics..though they would protect me from post root canal job infection she conceded.

Anyway 24 hours later I have had no soreness whatsoever and predictions of having to take Ibruprofen with Paracetomol chasers to counteract soreness have been unfounded.

Tim
 
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