[garandgal]

Man, I feel for you. By the way, did you ever read the Jim Herriot story about the dentist that knocked his tooth out with a hammer and chisel? The nurse pulled him aside before the extraction and told him the dentist was crazy, and had no idea how to pull teeth...

No, but looked it up. I only wish a nurse had been around to warn me. As I mentioned, I was young...it was before I fully realized that even the "professions" are comprised of a certain percentage of fools who graduated at the bottom of the class!

Honestly, I would have had NO PROBLEM filing a huge lawsuit against this barbarian; alas, by the time I realized the damage he had truly done it was too late.

The only thing (besides the pain) that I remember was when he admitted that he had broken the entire top of the tooth off past the gumline...he dug the roots out with his pliers...hence the jaw damage.

[nygoose]

I have to say that this is the best thread I have ever seen on this website. I am going to convert this to a PDF file and save it forever.