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My face felt like it was going to fall off

rawr*i*r*dinosaur — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 04:42:28 GMT

I'm not posting a poo this time honest so you can look at the pics now.

I kept waking at 3am feeling like I was gonna die. And I was on holidays in nowra so I had to put up with it for a week before I could come home to see the dentist but they let me keep this. They wouldn't even give me any drugs to take home. What a rip off.

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joz*garage — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:03:41 GMT

They wouldn't even give me any drugs to take home. What a rip off.

do they generally prescribe drugs after surgery?

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lyndal1838 — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:04:14 GMT

That would have taken a long time to develop to that size. Maybe see a dentist more regularly and you will not lose the tooth.

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*pepe — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:08:34 GMT

it looks like your doctor gave you too many jellybeans

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icyfroth — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:12:45 GMT

OMG that would've killed!

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rawr*i*r*dinosaur — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:25:24 GMT

@lyndal1838 wrote:
That would have taken a long time to develop to that size. Maybe see a dentist more regularly and you will not lose the tooth.

This was the top left wisdom tooth and I had no idea it was like this because I could neither see nor feel it. Don't know how long it took to get like this, and since I have not had any other problems I haven't had a need to go to a dentist.

Yesterday he has discovered I have got other problems caused by dry mouth. So while the rest of my teeth are currently okay, if we had not discovered it in time he said all my other teeth will decay and crumble. So now I have to use this dry mouth gel and spray **bleep** and get flouride treatment and all this biz. Gonna cost an **bleep**load.

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rawr*i*r*dinosaur — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:26:39 GMT

Since it was only a wisdom tooth it's no huge loss. But I'm glad it led to the dry mouth problem being discovered. I mean I knew I had issues with my mouth being dry but I didn't know it was damaging my teeth.

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icyfroth — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:27:22 GMT

I thought only old ppl got dry mouth?

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rawr*i*r*dinosaur — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:27:38 GMT

@joz*garage wrote:
They wouldn't even give me any drugs to take home. What a rip off.

do they generally prescribe drugs after surgery?

I dunno. A bit of panadeine forte for my troubles would have been nice.

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rawr*i*r*dinosaur — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:28:18 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
I thought only old ppl got dry mouth?

I am old ;_;

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joz*garage — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:41:15 GMT

@rawr*i*r*dinosaur wrote:
@joz*garage wrote:
They wouldn't even give me any drugs to take home. What a rip off.

do they generally prescribe drugs after surgery?
I dunno. A bit of panadeine forte for my troubles would have been nice.

lol, i just looked up the symptoms for dry mouth, mebbe thats why they didnt give you any pills, medication can be the cause

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**meep** — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:42:29 GMT

@joz*garage wrote:
They wouldn't even give me any drugs to take home. What a rip off.

do they generally prescribe drugs after surgery?

I don't think dentists give drugs following a tooth extraction. They would normally recommend to get some painkillers.

The local anaesthetic would last long enough to get to the chemist.

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joz*garage — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 05:48:57 GMT

@**meep** wrote:
@joz*garage wrote:
They wouldn't even give me any drugs to take home. What a rip off.

do they generally prescribe drugs after surgery?
I don't think dentists give drugs following a tooth extraction. They would normally recommend to get some painkillers.
The local anaesthetic would last long enough to get to the chemist.

thats what i thought, a few years back i had a heap of work done & i cant remember recieving any medication after surgery

i remember popping a panadole the day after though which was out of my own stash

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annies_fancy_dress — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:50:34 GMT

I would have gone to a dentist in NOwra.

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trustmee-2013 — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:52:57 GMT

I felt scared to open this thread

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cherry*135 — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:49:55 GMT

That tooth is a good reason why there should be flouridation in every water supply and children should be drinking flouridated water from a young age.

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rawr*i*r*dinosaur — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:01:58 GMT

@annies_fancy_dress wrote:
I would have gone to a dentist in NOwra.

Well, when I was in Nowra I noticed that very few people there have any teeth so I assumed that there are no dentists there

But actually, I was waiting to get back home because I pay a membership fee to a dental clinic here so I can get it done 30-40% cheaper than at other dentists. I probably wouldn't have been able to afford to have it done while I was away. But had I known how bad it was I might have gone to another dentist. I was just eating nurofen plus and mersyndol like lollies for a week.

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cherry*135 — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:07:18 GMT

Well, when I was in Nowra I noticed that very few people there have any teeth so I assumed that there are no dentists there

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serendipityricho — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:10:32 GMT

Hi Rawr-can feel the pain from your pics.

When you get older -they all fall out.

Have 4 teeth left-but 2 at the bottom on one side

and 2 at the top on the other side---dont mate up lol.

Put my sunday roast in the vitamiser and use a straw........................Richo.

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tasfleur — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:16:05 GMT

"Well, when I was in Nowra I noticed that very few people there have any teeth so I assumed that there are no dentists there"

I have this vision of a whole town full of strikingly gummied smilers!