I don’t remember any real discomfort or adjustment phase when I had mine out other than that I was advised to rinse my mouth regularly with warm salty water for a week or two afterwards, which was fairly gross. One of the big benefits has been that flossing in that area is now a doddle.
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Why did she need those done?
Go to the dentist ffs lads. Twice a year.
Pal of mines wife had very early stage tongue cancer picked up by dentist on a routine visit. Because it was early she was fine with a minimal op
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Currently going to 5 (five) different dentists 
One for each tooth ?
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I’m not from Tipp, kid!
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Shit dentist as a kid. Got crowns done in her early twenties and they’ve served their time.
Thought you’d have heard of a wisdom tooth. Florent Malouda was a changed man back in the late 00’s when he had his wisdom tooth pulled. Transformed his Chelsea career for a while.
Root canal repaired today. Only four more dentists to go 
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Finally got this pulled this morning. I’m a new man after it.
I had thought that it would be like going to a butcher but it was actually a relatively pain/stress free experience.
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I searched dentist and that image popped up. I sat in that very seat last week.
It was my first time there.
I had a badly chipped old tooth. On it’s last legs but there’s no pain so they just keep refilling it when another bit chips off. So she did the job but when I got home and tried to floss I realised she had welded the chipped tooth to the one beside it and I couldn’t get the floss in.
So I’m wondering if she did that on purpose (she never said, I couldn’t understand her anyway) as I’ve seen people with two front teeth welded together. So google tells me that ‘tooth bonding’ takes two hours and is a specialist process. So she hardly did that.
I don’t want to go back and seem like a fool when she tells me she did it on purpose. But I can’t see it as a genuine recommended procedure online.
Any ideas TFK?
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Go back and ask her, it’ll cost you nothing. It’s a legitimate question to ask. We’ll always think you’re a bit of a jinit in any case 
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Had the start of two implants put in a few weeks back. Bone grafting too. Fuck me was it sore! Have the stitches taken out last week and it’s all going well so far. Should have the full implants in by September. Should have done it years ago. Expensive thing to do.
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Composite bonding ?
Definitely nothing as fancy as that took place.
I posted about my experience with this process before. The bone grafting is fucking horrendous.
You keep telling yourself it’ll all be worth it, but the pain… 
My life partner fucked off to Lisbon for a few days late last week (what kind of person abandons their partner & children to go to Lisbon in October/November time?) but I had a nice plan formulated.
A take-away treat on Friday night, bring the boys to GAA on Saturday morning & then a road trip to Wexford to have a sleepover in Nana & Grandad’s. Ideal - share the pain/joy [delete as applicable], let them play with cousins & run amok while I sit on my hole, watch sport & get served up tae, buns & assorted other cakes by my Mam.
But I’d noticed late last week that I was getting a little sensitive tingly discomfort in my mouth when drinking water. I thought no more about it but my mouth started to get quite sore on Saturday just after I arrived in Wexford.
Then it worsened while I was trying to sleep that night & I popped some painkillers but kept waking up with it. It was very sore yesterday but what could I do on the Sabbath in the rainy south east & my dentist in Dublin too.
Due to the uncharacteristic bad weather, we took the kids to a play zone indoor place & I sat there with my sister for two hours with a huge pain in my jaw as a load of kids roared & screamed the place down. I couldn’t even properly get my teeth into the Sunday roast dinner, homemade apple tart & all the other treats afterwards.
It was genuinely HEARTBREAKING. And then I had to face the drive back up the M11/N11 last night with the pain worsening if anything. More pills popped, a fractured sleep & I managed to get a dental appointment today. It turns out a decaying wisdom tooth is causing the trouble so that will need to be extracted but my dentist wants a specialist to examine it & complete the extraction because of the presence of a nerve adjacent to the root.
In the meantime I’ve been prescribed antibiotics to hopefully reduce the swelling & related pain around the gum/jaw area & I patiently await the specialist appointment. It’s been a right ordeal but overall I’ve been incredibly brave & stoic.
It’s also the main reason I wasn’t really moderating the Kyle Hayes thread in recent days when some posters were trading awful insults. My moderating track record proves I’d ordinarily never allow things to get so out of control.
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Jesus wept!
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