I saw my dentist earlier this year, and he told me I had healthy teeth but needed a small filling as one of my teeth had a small hole in it.
I’d happily have the filling if it wasn’t for having a bloody needle stuck in my gum cos I bloody hate needles.
I’ve got this habit now of nudging my tooth with my tongue, and I can feel it move very slightly, it’s hard to stop doing it as I subconciously know it’s got a hole in it.
I know alot of people who haven’t had a filling in their life and they’re teeth are fine.
I’m trying to cut out all sugar in my diet, which will hopefully stop any further decay in my tooth and stop the hole getting bigger. I was just curious about the sugar in protien powders as they’re always very sweet and I tend to drink around 3-4 shakes a day. Does anyone know if the sugar in protien powders causes tooth decay?
Also what would your advice be about getting a filling??
I feel the dentists advice is biased as he obviously wants me to have the filling so he can make some money out of me??
Oh and before all you flamers start ‘No the tooth didn’t decay through Coke abuse’.
Just man up and go get the filling. The dentist isn’t trying to scam you and it’s a relatively painless thing.
I can’t stand the shots either, but most dentists will drill without it. It doesn’t hurt that bad (depending on how deep the filling is) and you mouth isn’t numb all day.
Stop whining and get the filling. When I was a kid they didn’t even have novacaine. I would gladly take a 10 second poke with a needle than have a sensitive tooth worked on with an old fashioned slow drill again. Besides that, they give you a gum numbing agent beforehand so you hardly feel the needle anyway.If you want to keep your teeth, you gotta take care of them.
does this guy have a different life predicament every other week or what? man up or get off the t-nation forums!
if you don’t get the filling…the decay will advance into your nerve chamber, the nerve will become infected and then you will either need a root canal and crown to save the tooth or lose it. You could set yourself up for an abcess and need antibiotics.
An abcessed tooth is more painful than childbirth.
Get the freaking filling. I do mine without local anesthetic and so do my children.
The topical they use will help take the pinch out of the injection and if the doc does it right you will hardly feel anything.
Wear some headphones and listen to your favorite music while getting worked on.
Alicia
Certified Dental Assistant with 18 years exp.
If you have a high-tech dentistry service, they can even numb you electronically. No needles involved at all.
Are you fucking serious? Posts like this make me cry
Stop being a pussy. Get the nitrous and you won’t notice.
So you’re scared of a trained professional sticking a needle into your gums, but you’re cool with sniffing shit up your nose? Makes sense.
i would think that jamming powder up your nose would be a lot more painful than a filling.
i just had three done at the same time. didnt feel shit.
Jay,
You have got to be kidding when you said the dentist just wants to make money off of you. Ignorant shit like that just pisses me off. Was it your dentist who made you eat sugary crap? How is your oral hygiene? Poor? Are you going to blame that on your dentist too? Sorry Jay, that I am unloading on you, but far too many people have these same beliefs that the dentist is just an evil, money hungry person, and for that most part, that is not true. Granted, there are some asshole dentists out there who give the whole group a bad rep, but believe me there are far more nice dentists who are just trying to make an honest living and get people out of pain. They would rather not have to do a filling on someone, but some people can’t get their lazy ass off the couch to brush and floss 5 minutes a day. Look at how much time and effort people put into their training… their diet…hair… tan…and you don’t have 5 minutes to clean the shit off your teeth? Please.
I too am a dental assistant, and a kick-ass one at that.
One thing to note, just cutting out sugar isn’t always enough.
Many diet drinks and those fruity protien drinks on the market contain massive quantities of phosphoric acid and/or citric acid.
Lots of acid swilling across the teeth. Do the math.
If it’s a small filling you don’t have to get novacaine (sp?). I’ve done it before and I’m fine.
I am not a big fan of needles in the roof of the mouth either, but there are docs who use the happy gas.
I just had a root canal done today. No it wasn’t very fun and yes even though they shoot you with novicane when they are actually pulling the living root out of your tooth the shit hurts. Fill the damn thing and get it over with. The tenth of a second pinch of the novicane needle and the five minutes or so under the drill is far better than the pain I was in today and the procedure is about 2 hours long. Oh and the bill was $550. you can probably get that little thing filled for 75-100 bucks