Today, I went to the dentist to get a tooth filled. The nurse just finished taking my info when the doctor came in and started drilling. Through my chorus of screams he realized he'd forgotten to numb me. His only response was, "Guess I forgot to numb ya, huh?" while giggling. FML
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Today, I was at the dentist getting a cavity filled. As she's drilling into my tooth, I feel the drill slip, and then she quickly stuffs gauze into my mouth. She nervously laughs and says to me "Wow! You must really be numb!" FML
Today, I went to the dentist to get a cavity filled. As the dentist was drilling, he accidentally hit a nerve and I ended up screaming in pain. The whole office heard me and now I'm too embarrassed to go back. FML
Today, I went to the dentist to get a cavity filled. The numbing medication didn't work, so I felt everything. I was in so much pain that I accidentally bit down on the dentist's finger, causing him to yell in agony. Now, I have to find a new dentist. FML
Today, I went to the dentist to get a filling. Instead of giving me Novocaine, my dentist decided he was going to use a special new paste on me while he drilled. It didn't work. FML
Today, I went to the dentist to have two cavities filled. I hate going to the dentist. After he'd started drilling, I heard a "clunk" noise followed by an "Oops." My dentist had cut my tooth in half. Now I have to get surgery to have the tooth extracted. FML
Today, I went to the dentist to get a hole in my tooth filled. After the dentist had injected the anesthetic into my gums, she realized that none of the electrical equipment was working. She sent me home. My entire right side of my face is completely numb and swollen for no reason. FML
Today, I went to get some teeth pulled. I had Novocaine in my gums and lip so I couldn't feel a thing. When the doctor is pulling out the last tooth, he sneezes and pulls the tooth out. He looks in my mouth and I hear, "Oh, shit..." I now have stitches in my mouth. FML
Today, I was at the dentist's and she was hands deep in my mouth with a drill, when the power for the whole block shuts off. For 3 hours, the dentist had to keep shooting me up with shots to numb the horrible pain. FML
Today, I had a toothache and applied some numbing gel to soothe the pain. Too much came out and made my whole mouth numb. A man came into my work, thought I was making fun of his lisp, and stormed out really upset. He later called to complain about me. The boss just called me to his office. FML
Today, I went to the dentist to get a tooth worked on. I got tongue-tied and instead of asking if they could anesthetize me, I accidentally asked if they could euthanize me. FML
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perdix 31
You should have kicked him in the crotch to see if he had numb nuts, or just was one.
rocketiquette 20
Some people just shouldn't be in a medical field. Loons.
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beclaurela 18
That has happened to me twice, and it took multiple minutes for him to finally listen. I'm sorry OP, that shit hurts like a bitch.
RedPillSucks 33
Did the dentist keep asking you "Is it safe?"
Wealthyparrot 9
Well... at least he didn't drill the wrong tooth. I had a dentist rip out the wrong tooth... I have no cavities and my mouth still looks worse than anyone I know because I've never had a full set of teeth.
BDA_fml 5
Next time you need to grab him by the nuts before he starts drilling and ask him "we're not going to hurt each other are we"?
steve31789 8
I feel like dentists are the dumbest of all doctors
shork2005 6
That sounds like something my stepdad would do: laugh at me if he screwed up while working on my teeth. He did numb me once and the injection caused my cheek to swell to the size of a golf ball. And yes, he is a dentist, and worse, I have no choice but to go to him about my teeth or else I'd have to pay for dental visits
Jaxx66 21
I used to swell too when i got injected at the dentist. i later found out that im allergic to the sulfa based numbing agents. something to look into :)
iforgavelennon 7
It's unethical for a dentist to treat his own (step)daughter...
toomanyidiots 14
@130: There are fewer ethical implications in a dentist treating a family member than a doctor/physician such as a surgeon treating a family member. While I don't know the statistics for dentists, I know that at least 80% of all doctors have somehow been involved in a family member's treatment (prescriptions, diagnosis, primary care, and/or performing surgery on a relative -- the last done by 9% of doctors). There are manuals on ethics that advise doctors against treating a family member, primarily as the doctor then has authority over the family member and because the doctor may lose their sense of objectivity and may not be able to distance him/herself emotionally. Then there are, of course, relatives who don't take a doctor seriously. I have not found similar manuals on ethics suggesting dentists do not treat relatives (besides the obvious, such as not prescribing medications for conditions not relevant to dental treatment). Dentistry does not often involve surgery (extraction, implantology) or another procedure that would cause the dentist to remain unbiased and emotionally lose it. The risk of dying from dental treatment, as opposed to any invasive surgery (appendix removal, heart bypass, C-section), is negligible. Most deaths related to dental treatment don't occur as a result of the procedure, but as a result of carelessness or error on the part of the anesthesiologist -- dental procedures are not life-threatening, unless general anesthesia is used.
shork2005 6
He hit the nerve wrong. The next time I got numb, I didn't have a reaction
misslysiak 23
An I had only just gotten over my fear of dentists a month ago. It has now come back. Anyway, I hope you okay, and that that dentist did not finish working on your tooth and you went to another.
joanna1995 20
It sounds a lot like the dentist from Little Shop of Horrors
Kauphy 12
This is one of those situations where it is entirely acceptable to kick a doctor in the stomach.
Mauskau 36
I haven't had my mouth numbed for a filling since I was a kid. The injection hurts more, anyone that has had braces knows that braces hurt more than fillings.
SilverInGray 25
I think that fillings hurt much more than braces. My braces made my teeth ache for a day after I got them and after tightening a, but fillings were sharp pain.
FlowerMama 20
I've had both. Fillings definitely hurt me worse than braces.