Tools of Torture

Got the last two teeth removed. Is that a cause of celebration? NO. My first tooth got out a bit more easily. However my face was swollen to the size of a football. The second tooth? Well, lets just say that an x-ray which was taken 3 months earlier showed that there was just one root left. The other had dissolved. However whilst removing my tooth half way they realized that, well, all the roots were there and fully intact. So the dentist couldn't give me another numbing injection cause we were half way done. And after a lot of pulling and tugging... my tooth cracked. The root is still there the tooth is out. They can't cut open my gum and pull it out (Yes. that has happened before) because the permanent tooth is there and is fully grown. So I had to take pain killers after. It has been 24 hours. It still hurts.

Tools of torture

Dentists

Going to visit the dentist is absolutely not fun. It painful and... well... simply not pleasant. Especially when you have had 16 (and counting) teeth extracted. (going to get two more removed tomorrow and day after.) Its actually a very simply technique. First they apply a numbing cream like thing around the gums of the tooth which is to be removed, (it tastes like body shops raspberry lip balm.) then they give you an injection which just numbs everything. Then comes the "pulling of the tooth" with a pair of plier like looking tools. So yes. 'really looking forward to it.'