I got my tooth pulled yesterday.

[Kire]

I miss it already. It feels weird.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Sorry to hear.

Are you in pain?
I had a root canal done yesterday and I'm in pain.

[Kire]

3. I'm in pain.

But it's getting better by the hour.

I wish I could have gotten a root canal and a cap, but I have no insurance and root canal is like $3000. The extraction was $360.

[Sanity Claws]

7. You're right on the price

I have no insurance and will have to pay that in cold cash. It hurts to pay that kind of money.
The only thing I've been given for the pain is ibuprofen. Perhaps you should try it for the pain.
I have a headache, I think from the sedative and anesthesia.

[radwriter0555]

21. They robbed you on the extraction too. BUT your relief as you're finding

will increase hour by hour. I hope they cautioned you about the potential of dry socket.

It's also wierd when the gum around the tooth site wrinkles and you can feel it.

I had to have my 2 bottom first molars removed a couple years ago, but it's a matching removal. They were baby molars with no adult teeth under them, and decades of trying to save them finally ran out. The relief was instantaneous.

You seem to have been charged quite a lot for that, and the price for the crown is ridiculous. Get a new dentist or as someone else said, check out a nearby dental college.

[Kire]

24. they gave me a flyer with instructions

they said I don't have to worry about dry sockets as long as I drink lots of fluids and don't smoke

I was going to say "are they wrong about that too?", but that would be asking for medical advice

thanks for the input

[texanwitch]

18. You would have to pay $3000 for a root canal. Where do you live.

I had a root canal and crown for $1000, if I wouldn't have been so stupid all I would have needed was crown.


Hope you feel better soon.


Look into a dental discount card, most Dentist take them and you can save a lot of money.

[cobalt1999]

19. are you near a university?

Many don't charge much, BUT they are students working on you.

[Kire]

22. summer break

I called the one in Newark, NJ and they said I have to wait until the middle of August just to make an appointment in September.

[_testify_]

2. What kinda drugs ya get?

[Kire]

4. Antibiotics

:yawn:

[_testify_]

5. No painkillers?

Either your dentist is a sadist or you're hardcore.

[Kire]

6. I'm hardcore.

Also, I've been clean and sober in Narcotics Anonymous for eight and a half years. Not that he even asked.

[_testify_]

8. Good for you!

Would that be a problem, if he had prescribed something strong? I'm just curious, nothing personal.

[Kire]

9. No, it wouldn't

As long as I took it as prescribed.

[Kire]

10. I discovered Pea Soup

It's really quite good.

[Mojambo]

11. I hate how food gets stuck down there in the hole

Although it can be a nice surprise treat.

[Kire]

12. You mean after the tooth is pulled it does that?

Jeezus, my tooth was so crushed it was doing that and it was driving me insane. I pulled the tooth to avoid that. I really should have gotten a root canal and crown, then.

[Mojambo]

14. Once it heals fully it doesn't happen very much

But it does take a good long time for that to happen

[Kire]

16. Thanks for the tip

[bigwillq]

13. Hope you feel better.

:hug:

[Kire]

15. Thanks

I'm amazed. It's only been about 27 hours and I hardly notice the pain. Only when I press on my cheek with my hand.

[graywarrior]

17. My dentist prescribed a non-narcotic pain killer but

it cost $40 bucks a whack...so I took aspirin instead. Congrats on staying sober.

[Floogeldy]

20. Oh boo hoo hoo!

What did you think life is, a hashish induced free ride?

:smoke:

[Kire]

23. What the fuck is your problem?

Go. A. Way.