Poor baby! My genetics are poop except my teeth. The only good genes I inherited. But I remember my grandmother’s pain with her dentures. She served a lot of soft food. Wish I knew her chicken soup recipe. Too die for.
When I had my wisdom teeth pulled in college they gave me something that made hallucinate neon planes floating around the room and it felt like after a few minutes they stuffed my mouth with cotton and were sending me home. I couldn’t figure out why they did this to me and hadn’t pulled my teeth yet! My dad pretty much had to carry me out to the car! I think I slept about the next 48 hrs!!
I have white coat syndrome when I see a doc (and I’m in the medical field) but not a dentist.
I am so sorry I kind of hijacked the thread and feel like some drama queen here. I figured people could skip over it. And I'm reading the recipes and saving some.
My teeth are soft, the first one broke off from abrasion of a wire on my braces which wore off the enamel. That was a front one. Plus I smoked and drank a lot of tea, quit both. I never wanted to go through a root canal or pay for iit and quit going to the dentist altogether for years but not initially.
That's horrible about your wiscom teeth. I was about 20, drove myself. Novocain only, 2 pulled at a time starting with one impacted (on it's side). The dentist sawed the tooth in at least 3 pieces to get it out. I fainted twice, he took my pulse and broke one of those ampules of ammonia. I got through it and drove myself home but my whole jaw was hurting and bruised 2 days later. Still went back and got the other 2 out.
So I have good reason to fear them even though they seldom hurt anywhere near that bad now except maybe afterwards. The drilling when a child used to be horrible with no novocain yet and my sensitive teeth, not those hs water-cooled ones.
But to psych myself up I included being thankful we even have modern dentistry because a lot of people, maybe me, would be dead. My regular dr maybe 5 years ago warned me to get my teeth taken care of because if they abcess or something else (lucky mine didn't do that), you can get septicemia and die.
And if they have to pull for a toothache (I spent several nights up all night with those, horrible), that wasn't the problem with this latest. How on earth would I have stood those toothaches until they eventually break and the nerve dies (if you're lucky)? I think for some they just pulled them with pliers.
So let's count our blessings. That's funny you're in the "business", bet you're compassionate, I guess you can have fears, too. Both are conditioned responses from my childhood. I do think we might have more fear of terminal diseases, no that can't be with the dpt and small pox. I don't know. There was still cancer, but if you are lucky enough never to get it, somebody you love does or you can spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about it.
Wow, I never had a hallucinatory experience with an anesthetic, could though. I feel for you with that, and the memory of it stays with you as long as your memory works.
Gotta stir some jello I'm making.