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You had a drill? Wow that's way ahead of me. I had a tooth "taken care of" in a dental hospital over here (PRChina). They used a hammer and chisel. There was a
by dublinclontarf 16y ago
You had a drill? Wow that's way ahead of me. I had a tooth "taken care of" in a dental hospital over here (PRChina). They used a hammer and chisel.
There was a stern nurse whose only job was to go around the cubicals(booths?they're certainly not rooms) knocking out teeth. On my way out I seen her in another cubicle doing the same to some other poor chap.
My jaw was more painful than the actual tooth for a good few days after that.
But yeah, ship the gel.
- bh42 16y agoI wonder which is more painful? What you had, or what I had in Eastern Europe, which is the same old drill, but no anesthesia. Incidentally, living in the west has totally pussyfied me. No offense meant to my (now) fellow westerners.
- sliverstorm 16y agoWe've got it good, and by that I mean to include Eastern Europe. "An Egyptian lower jaw, dated by experts from 2900 to 2750 BC, demonstrates two holes drilled through the bone, presumably to drain an abscessed tooth." Other than that, as best I understand back in the day people simply had to live with it. I'm not sure which choice is worse, but I'd certainly rather you get me drunk, knock me out and drill my tooth, than either of those.
- Tuna-Fish 16y ago> Other than that, as best I understand back in the day people simply had to live with it. An untreated cavity often causes infection that spreads to the jaw and from there to the rest of the head. This is usually lethal. Before dentists, teeth that developed cavities were usually removed.
- sliverstorm 16y agoWell sure it kills you, but did they know to pull the tooth in 4000BC?
- GrandMasterBirt 16y agoEver have a root canal with no pain killers? And you complain about drills, HA!
- dkersten 16y agoThat sounds extremely face-numbingly painful.