Pre-dentist visit movie

[Contratrombone64]

this should NOT be watched if you are about to have an extraction ... you have been warned

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J58p...eature=related

In fact, I'm really sorry I watched it!

[teddy]

Thank you. I am so glad I watched that. I as a rule always make sure that my dentist is smaller tham me. My current one is also a client so he makes sure he does not hurt me. I know all about his financial affairs.

teddy

[Krummhorn]

Well ... I'm certainly glad I didn't become a dentist ... you will notice that the patient here is only numbed up and not zonked out like what usually happens for dental surgery.

Fortunately, for procedures like this, I was in la-la-land and not conscious of what was going on

[Contratrombone64]

Yeah, I've hand an extraction, and I had several needles before he started to pull. In honesty, it was the least painful procedure I went through. My dentist used a long lasting anasthetic which was also had a nerve killing agent. The most painful procedure I've had to endure was root canal ... yikes.

[teddy]

I did not find the root canal too painful but they also had to cut some bone away. They cut until it bleeds which shows it is healthy. I did not have anasthetic for that. I do not like needles so I put up with it. It was not too bad really.

teddy

[Contratrombone64]

You are a brave man, teddles, I find the needles are so fine nowadays that they just slide in with little pain. Slamming your finger in a door is much more painful.

[Krummhorn]

. . . The most painful procedure I've had to endure was root canal ... yikes.

I never had one of those ... refused them, actually. My dental insurance at the time would only cover the first $40 of the $1,250 procedure. I asked my dentist, "how much to yank it out" ... and he replied "$65, and the insurance covers the whole thing." I said ... "pull it!!"

A few hours of having my jay numbed up and not being able to drink from a glass without goobering up my shirt and clothes was certainly easier to deal with than the repeated two or three hour open mouth sessions and all that drilling. Yikes, indeed.

[Contratrombone64]

Teeth are an interesting part of ourselves, sugar should be banned and we'd all be a lot better off for it.

[Krummhorn]

Equally as bad is the high fructose syrup that has been used as its substitute.

Being one that has diabetes and takes insulin, I shy away from sugar anyway. Trouble is, saccharin and aspartame do other things to the bodies chemistry that are almost as unfavorable as sugar, sometimes worse.

[Contratrombone64]

Lars, you're probably sweet enough?

[Krummhorn]

Aw, shucks ...

Well my wife thinks so, too.