Woe, woe, thrice woe. Don’t go drilling into canals
Had an absolute nightmare of a time at the dentist today. On Monday I’d had a root canal and a temporary filling placed over it with a proper filling due to replace it today, it was an uncomfortable process but not painful during treatment. Afterwards though, it was sore for a solid couple of days but seemed OK today for the next phase. Then in the treatment room he utters the fateful words
“The X-Rays look good. Since we’ve removed the nerve you shouldn’t feel anything in that tooth. Let’s do this without a local (anaesthetic)”. I meekly replied “Are you sure?”, he “Yes”. “OK”
Famous Last Words. He was drilling half-way into the earth core before he noticed the tears spilling down my cheeks, I was too shocked, pained and stressed to raise my hand to alert him to stop and when he did stop I could barely speak for crying. Just what kind of mutant teeth do I have? The nerve physically *removed* but I’m still feeling pain from the drill work, if I hadn’t been having treatment I would have said it was a toothache kind of pain, throbbing but what the feck was causing it? He changed the drill bit and that seemed to be a little better but still painful. I feel bad for the very sweet young dental assistant, she looked mortified. Apologies all round but he still looked non-plussed and didn’t have an explanation for what might be causing the hurting. I’ve spent more than 5 hours in the chair already and maybe 3 or 4 sessions still to go. This episode has really spooked me. If you’ll forgive the pun, will I get my nerve back?
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