Your Funny Dental Story?
If there is such a thing. (@William81's post made me remember it.)
I'll go first. :
Was in the Army and my name showed up on the Duty Roster to be at the Dentist at a certain day and time. (I had no idea what it was for?) On that day, I showed up, was ushered into the back, put in the chair. The Dentist walks in and immediately starts shooting me up with multiple shots of Novacaine. I couldn't even feel my face. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
He starts telling me at that point, while whipping out previous X-rays and holding them up, that "We are going to be removing all four of your wisdom teeth. (And) It's gonna be rough. The roots wrap around the nerve bundle and there is a 30% chance you could lose the use of your lower jaw for up to a year." Me- What? Run that by me again? Which came out, "mhwaa eekk, mnoo." (Or something similar.) Dentist - "We are going to have to split them in half and remove them from aroundthe nerve bundle." Me - "Eeekke, Mo, Mo, Waaiitt." (Or similar.)
Not only was I seriously freaked out by his comment, ""Possible you could lose the use of your lower Jaw for awhile," comment, but it was Friday afternoon. I was on the Eastern Army Inter-Installation Ski Team and we were supposed to go to our final meet that evening to Big Boulder/Jack Frost for the finals. I'm motioning like a Mad Man for something to write with. Finally get my point across and he hands me something to write with. Hand it to him to read. Back and forth. Etc.
I finally get my point across, "Nnnoooo, We Can't Do This Today." He acquiesces. Finally. Went on to Ski that weekend where we got 2nd place Inter-Installation Giant Slalom Team. (Still have the medal.) Still have all four of my wisdom team.
Dodged that Bullet. Still laugh about it. 🤔😉😂🤣
Yours?
Please Share.
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Sorry
I have never found any visit to a dentist funny
Close as I can get I had a crown replaced about 6 yrs ago
The dentist and her assistant cut the old one in 4 sections one section went right down my throat. They did not have one of guards in place to prevent it will when it broke free of the tools. They both went it elbow deep trying to catch and retrieve it WTF then they told me
They had me go to the hospital for exrays to make sure it did not end up in my lungs
Then the next couple days I had to do a Physical search of my deposits until I found the piece to make sure it passed
And that's one of my better times at a dentist lol
When I was about 7 or 8 I went to a dentist he gave me shot to numb the area . I bit down on his finger like a snapping turtle .
He finely got his finger out and had Ibit it hard he put some band aids on it yelled at me over it but dang it those shots hurt
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I have swallowed a temporary crown 👑
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I have always been a borderline free bleeder AND have a tremendous tolerance for Novacaine. In my mid-twenties, I had my 1st impacted wisdom tooth extracted. The doc had to keep shooting in the Novacaine and ended up having to section the tooth as well as grind a groove in my jaw to slip the root off. Surprisingly, with all that Novacaine, I felt pretty comfortable when it was all over. My wife wanted to make a stop at a store on the way home, so I said OK. Browsing around the store, I noticed people were giving me funny looks. When I happened in front of a mirror, I saw why. Blood was running out the corner of my mouth down off my chin. I couldn't feel it because of the deadening. I beat it for home, and when the Novacaine wore off, I felt like a stick of dynamite had gone off between my jaws.
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Slipped on a set of Billy-Bob teeth after the cleaning, right before the dentist came in for the check up.... He about fell out of his chair laughing.
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Okay Todd.
You Win. 🤔😉😂🤣
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I used to brag about my perfect teeth. NOT ANYMORE!!!!! All I have left to chew with are a couple small molars on the left side of my mouth. The front top and bottom are still nice to look at though. Stomach acid from years of suffering with Gerd acid reflux has dissolved my brighty whities!
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No such thing as a funny dental story ............................... 😩
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Yeah there is.
Todd proved it. 👍
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1. Age 14: I was on the summer swim team at our local pool. One morning, I was in a hurry to get to morning practice, and forgot my goggles. They had "shocked" the pool over night with a really big dose of chlorine. My eyes were quickly burning, and soon I could hardly see anything. Coach had us doing butterfly drills. Couldn't see the wall, and I took a big stroke/breath and came down with front teeth right on the edge of the pool. Shattered my right front tooth diagonally, and I've had a cap on it ever since. Wasn't funny then, but it is now (a little).
2. 2017: I was running in the morning for daily PT. Crossed at an intersection. A lady ran the red light and hit me in the crosswalk at about 35-40 mph. Lights out. According to the paramedics, I woke up briefly in the ambulance, wiggled my toes, ran my tongue over my teeth, and declared, "I still got my teeth and my legs are moving. I'm good to go. Let me out." I promptly went unconscious for another hour or so. Interestingly, my face took the brunt of the SUV hit. Major lacerations, broke nose, eye-sockets, took most of the skin off, etc. Somehow, though, those teeth were okay. I did, however, manage to embed every piece of road grit around in my lower lip, so the oral surgeon had to cut all that junk out. He missed at least one pebble, though, that worked it's way through and emerged from the exterior of my lip a year later. THAT was weird.
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My last appointment with the dentist was also the first time I got to experience nitrous oxide. They put the little mask over my nose, and tell me to breathe deeply. Having never experienced it before, I started off incredibly nervous. Boy, that didn't last long.
As I'm laid out on the chair, facing a big window looking out over the parking lot and street out front, watching cars drive by upside down and backwards, I get the feeling like I'm hovering about a foot off the chair. Then my nose starts to itch, right around where the mask was.
Being distracted by the many marvels of the world I'd never noticed before, I didn't notice that they had rolled in a tray to my right. Not seeing the tray covered in freshly-sanitized picks and other misc. tools I'd probably use to clean out primer pockets, I swing my right arm out and up, trying to get to my nose, so I could itch it.
The tray went airborne, and so did everything on it. I tried to apologize several times, but every time I tried to talk, my voice was about 23 octaves lower that normal, but only to me. I think I managed to get it out, because I recall hearing "don't worry about it" at least once, along with a lot of laughter.
Once everything was done, I had to wait a while until the moon juice wore off. I don't think it was completely out of my system when they cut me loose and sent me home. My daily driver at the time was a '73 Ford Highboy, and for some reason, it felt like it rode about 3 feet higher than normal on the drive home. 20 miles one way. I blinked twice and I was home.
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Not funny but, I wore braces for 4 years to straighten my teeth. My parents couldn't really afford it, but dad and mom worked a lot of OT , to be able to buy them for me. The day after I got my braces off, I got hit in the mouth with an ice hockey puck during a game, and chipped my front teeth. I was wondering weather to try to hide them somehow, or commit suicide. To say they were mad was an understatement. I had to wait until I could afford to have them fixed later in life. On the bright side, I scored the winning goal that day!!!!!!!🙄
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Another funny memory from later that same day.
The Ski Team all loaded up in an OD Military van, with our ski's and gear all over the place. Guy's/Girl's both. Of course we hit the 1st beer/liquor store off base to fill our coolers. Coming out, laughing, Joking we run in to the Base Command SGM, leaning up against the Van. (He pulled in, when he saw an Army Van pulled up to the beer store.) 🤔
I knew him rather well and he liked me. We explained we were on the way to "Represent the Army and Ski our best SGM." 😉 He just shook his head and told us all to "Get out of here and stay out of trouble." Shaking his head the whole way back to his vehicle.
He rode me about that mercilessly. Good thing we came back with medals to show him. 👍😁
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I've got two, One mine and one my father's
I was in the chair getting fillings and was all tensed up. The work was going fairly well so I decided to relax and just went limp. The Dr. thought I had passed out, and started shaking my arm and calling my name. I mumbled I was OK and just relaxing.
When my father was a teenager he had to have some teeth pulled, so the nice nurse said he could squeeze her hand if it hurt. What she didn't know was that my father milked cows by hand every morning. He almost broke her hand when the Dr started on the first tooth.
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I do remember my grandmother telling me a story about the priest, who said some not so holy words, when her false top plate fell down on his fingers when she was receiving communion one time...
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OK, I have a great Dentist joke but I'm sure it would get poofed & I would get a time out. So for those who know the punch line, Dentist: "No Ken, your forehead smells like ......"
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Back in '85 I had to pay a visit to my very well known to me childhood dentist due to a cracked molar. Dr. Kahout told me that he could not save the tooth but offered me a deal that I could not refuse.
He told me that he was training several female dental assistant's through the local community college and that I would be the perfect patient (specimen 😁) for his class. Said he'd pull my tooth and put in a bridge absolutely FREE of charge!! All I had to do was put up with a group of gals surrounding me as he worked.
All went well for me except one of the ladies fainted and landed on my lap at the sight of blood during the extraction! 😁
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When I was in college at Georgia State University they had a Dental school at Emory University there in Atlanta. The student dentists needed someone to work on, after all they had to "practice medicine" and they would do dental work for free.
I went over there to get the wisdom teeth removed. The rookie got the first one out OK, but the second one he broke in half.
This is a Dentistry classroom, with fifteen dentist chairs in one room, fifteen rookie student dentists working on patients, like me, and four instructors, walking around the room, supervising. When the student broke my tooth in two, he muttered "Oh s***." That didn't sound too good to me.
Then the instructor came over, took one look inside my mouth and he cussed out the rookie. "You stupid son of a b** how could you fu** this up so badly you moron!" etc. I never had heard a doc talk that way, it reminded me of being at football practice. Coaches often cussed out errant players at football practice.
Then Doc got out a little silver chisel, and a little silver hammer, and he spent the next five minutes pounding the impacted tooth into pieces, which he then removed with tweezers. Every time he smacked the chisel with the hammer, it knocked my head backwards. It felt like someone was hitting me in the head with a baseball bat.
It was a long day at the dentist office. But it was free.
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