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[gavin]

I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to let me help them. Who am I[?]

[Skippy]

A dentist?

[Skippy]

I've got to go on Wednesday so I've got the dentist on my mind at the moment!

[Skippy]

I broke my tooth eating a Frostie (don't laugh!) months ago and I've only just found a new NHS dentist - I was too scared to go back to my old one as she hurt me so many times!

[Skippy]

I had exactly the same thing - they gave me as much local as the could and it still didn't numb the tooth as apparently the nerve was so badly damaged. She also gave me an injection and caught a blood vessel and my face swelled up and bruised - I looked like a mutant hamster! No wonder I'm scared!

[Moneystinks]

OUCH!

[animaleyes76]

Hey skippy,

know the feeling.

i snapped one on a bbq ridged hula hoop! no one would believe me either.. lol

i think the scaredness thing with dentists usually comes from when you are young.

They are a LOT better these days than when i was a kid (only 31 now, mind you some poeple tihnk i still AM a kid ) ) but i had a dodgy dentist. Took until i met my current dentist to have any confidence in them at all.

Now.. no probs whatsoever. There is no excuse for any kind of pain these days with the treatments available )

[Shining]

NO NO NO! I am a proper baby when it comes to Dentists, luckily I have strong healthy teeth, the last filling I had cost me an extortionate amount of money as I had to be sedated and it was the last time they were professionally cleaned too as they did it under sedation. I go every 6 months to have a check up but so far so good, please please don't let anything happen to me in my IVA days as I know I can't afford sedation and have no idea how I would cope etc.,

[animaleyes76]

thank god for my company dental scheme is all i can say..

Had a porcelain crown and pin.. £425.

Nice tooth though )

[Moneystinks]

What I would like to know is what is the exact reason we get wisdom teeth. Having suffered all day with mine - what is the point????

[animaleyes76]

they are supposed to replace the molars that in "olden" times would be worn away/break etc..

Obviously don't need them these days.. I've only had 2 of mine removed (top 2) but it's amazing how they can still move considerably even in your early 30's

Mine are both sideways should they ever actually surface.. mad!!

[Moneystinks]

I wish they had come 10yrs earlier before I ended up in this situ!

I wouldn't know about the olden days being a wipper snapper!!!


[:I] [:D]

[animaleyes76]

lol

you saying i'm old

tut tut

[Moneystinks]

Your as old as you feel!

I didn't say you were old as you are not much older than me. X

[animaleyes76]

i know ;o)

hee .. just checking ..

as i think i said i am actually about 12 mentally lol