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I Hate Dentists
16 years ago
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I have a confession to make: I'm a circumstancial pussy. Some of you already know this, but while most things don't bother me, dentists are not one of them. No, in fact, I hate dentists in ways that fish hate fishsticks.
But it's been about four years since I was last at the dentist, and at the age of 28, I had my first cavity. I'd had a good track record of oral hygiene up until now, but alas, one of my molars had a cavity caused by a rebellious wisdom tooth. And now there's a cavern filled with 3D germs using power drills on my teeth (or so consumerist commercials would have me believe).
So it was off to the dentist I went!
Let me preface this by saying if the dentist's receptionist simply suckerpunched me in the jaw, called me a fag and handed me a bill... y'know, I'd be okay with that. It's not so much the dentist I hate, nor is it the pain (though it's certainly not up on my list), but it's the sounds. THE !@#$ING SOUNDS. When somebody's fingers deep in your mouth with a drill that sounds like a mosquito strapped to a jet engine boring into your skull... it's just, well, that's about one of the worst sounds on the planet. And the more the dentist drills the more you become sure that they're carving their name into the roof of your mouth like some sort of clinical shoutboard where they leave notes to each other through an interconnected series of mouths.
It's eerie, and I'll fess up fully that I'm total bitch and want to keep the fuck away from that.
I'd rather be showered in spiders than have to see a dentist, and I fucking HATE spiders.
But it's been about four years since I was last at the dentist, and at the age of 28, I had my first cavity. I'd had a good track record of oral hygiene up until now, but alas, one of my molars had a cavity caused by a rebellious wisdom tooth. And now there's a cavern filled with 3D germs using power drills on my teeth (or so consumerist commercials would have me believe).
So it was off to the dentist I went!
Let me preface this by saying if the dentist's receptionist simply suckerpunched me in the jaw, called me a fag and handed me a bill... y'know, I'd be okay with that. It's not so much the dentist I hate, nor is it the pain (though it's certainly not up on my list), but it's the sounds. THE !@#$ING SOUNDS. When somebody's fingers deep in your mouth with a drill that sounds like a mosquito strapped to a jet engine boring into your skull... it's just, well, that's about one of the worst sounds on the planet. And the more the dentist drills the more you become sure that they're carving their name into the roof of your mouth like some sort of clinical shoutboard where they leave notes to each other through an interconnected series of mouths.
It's eerie, and I'll fess up fully that I'm total bitch and want to keep the fuck away from that.
I'd rather be showered in spiders than have to see a dentist, and I fucking HATE spiders.
. . .
And what three amazing weeks they were.
At least they keep you in a good mood enough that the pain you still feel doesnt seem to matter any.
Flying high like a kite... or the toilet becomes your best friend. Don't you just love that lovely list of side effects (which includes death for this particular miracle worker)?
I ended up pulling over at the first place I could to talk it off. Heh.
They gave me Vicodin. :D
When I had mine taken out I was given the option of being put under or just be given a local anestetic. I personaly went with the former becuase in my case it was going to be a very long and grueling operation where they litterally had to cut away part of my gums, drill into my jaw bone and then break appart and pull out one wisdom tooth that was completely horizontal in my jaw, with the other being at a 75 degree angle or so.
My sock drawer would be the last place I'd keep my wisdom teeth... XD Perhaps a corner in a closet. :)
But yeah, the worst part wasn't the actually getting of them out, and I didn't need pain killers afterwards, but the space from the corner tooth where they had to break it up did not want to stop bleeding for awhile (sleeping with combination gause + tea bag to cover blood flavoring = no fun)
Wow, definitely sounds like it could have been better, but consider yourself lucky as you didn't need pain killers!
(check near the end of the strip)
So that they may have your delicious teeth!
OH GOD WHY DO I SMELL SMOKE
*shudders*
Dentist: *poke gums with a sharply curved tool* "Is this bleeding normal?"
Me: "Every time I take a scythe to my gums, yeah!"
Yeah D:
...>.=.> I actually kinda like spiders...
NOT USING ME FOR PROJECTS, ARE UUUUUUU!?!?!? >DO
that drill makes it like your skull is a vibrating cellphone
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Those sounds drive me up the wall. The drills and stuff are so horrible, not only cause of the sounds, but when you can feel it vibrating your teeth, which travels through your nerves and ends up almost seeming to amplify the horrendous sounds, its just so...ARGH! And then I'm stuck with those awful sounds ringing in my ears for hours afterward.
Hell I'm cringing right now just thinking about it
They don't deserve recognition!
SPIDER DENTISTS?! :O
You go and have some electrosurgery, where they use a electric torch (I shit you not) to burn away your gums so they can check a tooth down at the roots and you will see hell. Smell it too.
I need to go back and have about $5k in repair work done. For me it's no so much the pain, it's the bill.
I completely agree with you, though. But not only do I hate the sound, it's the grinding sensation from the drills. I get chills running down my spine for hours afterward.
I can well empathise. On the same token however, dental pain is a bitch. When I think of a world without dentists, I can't help but imagine that bit in the film Cast Away with Tom Hanks where he has to crudely extract a tooth with only the odd array of goods washed up on the island at his disposal. Makes me shiver...
Spiders: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT'S THE FUCKING GUILT TRIPS THEY PUT YOU ON.
"you haven't been brushing very much, have you?"
"Oh, look at this mess in here, have your teeth ever seen a toothbrush?"
"Yes there's alot of blood, it's your gums, it's normal for someone who doesn't floss"
GOD I FUCKING HATE THAT!
every time I go it's always the same, always with the constant guilt trip...they need to invent something that can naturally eat away at tartar and FAST, because I'm at a point in my life where I'd rather let all my teeth fall out then deal with oral hygiene lectures anymore. I thought when I became an adult they'd be over...but they're not, they're just worse.
Are you telling us that you're actually a weretooth?
Needless to say that my head is always full of thoughts and there's also some ambient music to keep me thinking to the point that the tools do not bother me at all...
And spideys are cuuute :3
I'm sorry, but, I'll have to agree with you...pussy.
I probably have some of the worse teeth out there, just... was horrible.. and for about 6 years i had stopped.. sooo when i went back.. i'm sure you can think of the result.. now i'm always glad when its ONLY one cavity...
Keep strong, its a very common thing for people to be weak over, even the strong tremble when the dentist says root canal......and faint dead away when the bill arrives...
Talon
Then again, my wisdom teeth are hardly making their way in yet, so I still have time to change my mind.
Wasnt that bad. Hated the needles, but i got through with it.
I didnt even flinch~
*proud stance*
Can prolly have enough for a shower of them in another few months.
^_^
So you're afraid of being killed, covered in batter, and deepfried?
...but I just was like "After this is over, I'm all fine and then continue to fap at some muscledragon art."
But I can understand that the bill makes you quite sick: I had my dentist visit free.
I had SEVERAL opertions in a 3 month period. :/
I was freaked everytime, and the sounds, and SMELLS! I saw SMOKE rising from my mouth, what, we sacrificing things in my mouth, too?! D:<
Ugh, and when a piece of, yes, CHAR, feel at my throat I was like "WTF?!". BTW these were for fillings or something...
Also, my jaw is sprouting something in the back, it's weirding me out. x.x
And you're worried about a bit of buzz-noise. Weak.
Fortunately, my dentist doesn't do numbing unless it's absolutely necessary. He is a god among dentists.
Oh yeah, screw them and their 'people who floss don't bleed at the gums'. Sorry I don't sand my gums down or something like that? :/
Ever had a nerve-channel treatment?
Hope you'll never need one of those.It f***in' sux big, nuclear lollipops. You get a rough neadle stuck inside your cavity to wipe out the dead nerve parts. And the guy performing the "cleaning" always shows a complete indifference, like if he was totally busy fucking your tooth with that thing. Veeeery sick comparison ^.-.^, but the pain makes you think about things like that. But what's more sick, is that it would be rude to not say "thank you" to that poore bloke, who just helped you. Hate such paradoxes.
Pain makes you hate people in so many different ways, doesn't it?
DO NOT WANT IN MOUF
Are you paranoid yet 'Neer?
THAT'S what hey used a long time ago for drills.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/missgien/3294339569/
there
It must be a father complex or something.
I haven't been to the dentist for about 6 years, and every day my fear of having dental issues keeps rising. =(
Let's take a look at the big book of British Smiles!
You're a toothbrush?
i actually fear dentists and i have to do a relaxation ritual before going because i literally go paranoid and suffer panic attacks XD
Thank God they've only ever had to clean mine. *knocks on wood, kisses the Blarney Stone, spins around three times, throws salt over my shoulder, and plucks a four-leafed clover*
But you know what's worse? Mines. I have absolutely no problem with tunnels and such, but when I visited Scranton back in 05, I went to the anthracite museum outside of town, where they actually take you down into the mine, and the whole time I was down there, the only things I could think about were all the bad things that could happen...I've seen/heard way too many stories about cave-ins, methane gas, and explosions to be cool (I come from a family of West Virginia coal miners, and I watch October Sky alot. Plus, I remember quite vividly when there was a disaster at the Jim Walters Resources mine nearby in 01). They had an old-timey plunger detonator wired up to a lights-and-sounds trigger simulating them blasting, and when they set it off, I jumped about a foot off the ground (any higher and I would have hit the ceiling).
Scrapers vs. Needles
...
Me, I hate the X-Ray thingies, the flouride treatment (tastes nasty), and going to the dentist's while I'm having a canker sore, or 2. (especially the last one)
You should have demanded nitrous oxide from that bastard! They had to dial it down when I had it because I couldn't stop laughing at their lame dentistry jokes, that's how well it works.
Lowe's, Home Depot, and the Dentist.
Blegh. ):
did the drilling sounds near the end of EarthBound freak you out?
They did me D:
yup
1- I agree with the sound. It's eerie and anything loud and eerie can your "pain resistance". And by that, I mean it's MORE painful with the high-pitched whirring sound in your mouth! ><
2- I also hate spiders, but, me, personally... I'd rather have to go "under the knife" (operated on) rather than get a tooth filled! ><
So, yeah, I feel your pain. And that damn drill hurts like a damn bitch!
I dunno... I blame Steve Martin for singing about being a dentist, which then placed an image in my brain that all dentist's are funny singing fools with neat silvery tools.
Although, that little heat gun is the only tool that irks me. :[
Doesn't help if lidocaine doesn't have enough of an effect and you can feel the drill going in you DX
Waterlase ftw.
oh... I read that as circumSIZED pussy. my bad.
I know hwo you feel neer, and the worst are the freaking needles...I hate them... >.<
It's like if a bee pokes the inside of your muzzle and freaking dies inside and it hurts like a motherflinger!
*crickets chirp*
Exactly
"You begin to see, and smell.. Smoke!.. Coming out of your mouth!"
...needles on veins, the only thing of this world able to make my wang cry :\
So to have to get a needle in the mouth is the WORST thing he can experience.
I can really feel with you... i had some denitst operation with just lokal anesthesia via injections... (got about 20 of them)
if you would have went to dentist sometime in last 4 years, maybe you would have avoid that cavity and that DRILL.
And fear of spider... huh. Not to be laughed at. Someone very close to me is deathly afraid of spider. You can laugh at me for the fact that I am quite afraid of BEE x.=.x
I will agree with Dragoneer, it isn't the dentists themselves I take issue with. Their assistants, however is another matter. These folks seem to be rather challenged with the tools of their trade, especially the scraping implement, they usually end up scraping up my gums and not my teeth.
The end result is a very agitated Rukario, who usually ends up inventing a long string of explatives, which usually sends them running.
My solution to the dentist dilemma is preventative measures, that keep the dentists and their sometimes "challenged" assistants.
Rukario
Cavity free for 37 years. :)
Pussy indeed.