Dentist....

How long has it been since you've seen a dentist?

Its been 2 years for me!!

yup 2 years sounds about right.....maybe even 3

8 or 9 years... my teeth feel fine, so I suppose they're healthy.

Pure terror.

About a year and a half.

8 or 9 months ago.

like... at least 800 years.

maybe more but im unsure

I was just at the dentist in August.
My work benefits kick in Oct 1 though, so I can get the optometrist done then.

I'm due again, I hate them with a passion, but I go.

yeah I know the feeling. When I was 15 I had like 10 fillings that year. In fact I thikn it was 12. I told my parents to just take out my teeth and give me fake ones.

Umm, not since last winter. I had to get two root canals on separate occaisons last year. It isn't even the fact that it hurts, and your face is numb for hours afterwards, but that it's so fucking expensive. I have all sorts of cavitites that need to be filled, but I can't afford it, so they are only going to get worse, and cost me more money. God damned teeth. Too bad we don't get new ones all the time like sharks. Evidence against "intellegent" design. An intellegent designer would have given us stainless steel teeth.

2 years. Last time I went I had to get a root canal re-done. The first one failed because the original dentist I went to didnt clean it all out properly

I need to get wisdom teeth removed and a cracked one fixed
Im scared

5 years. It's also the same period of time since I last had dental insurance.

The last time I went to the dentist was to get my wisdom teeth taken out. Yah, I'm not too found of them either.

I know. Stupid dentists, it's your teeth.
they just want your money!

this is easily my least favourite subject...i went last week for a cleaning and get my wisdoms out this weekend..

I'm legally adopting all of you so you can be on my insurance...

I'm worried about your gums...

Went about two months ago...had a lot of work to do, so had to put it on hold for a bit. I think the dentist is just trying to turn me into his personal piggy bank.

went earlier this year for a cleaning after a couple of years of nothing.
cleaning produced enough embarassing tartar that i'm now a semi-regular flosser. dentist also proclaimed that one of my fillings looked old and i should get it replaced somewhat soon because i'd one day find myself eating taffy and it would just pop out.

three days later, i lost part of that very same filling on a mouthful of sour skittles. the replacement of that filling was not fun. i'd have no fillings but the enamel on some of my molars is thin/soft, and i had to have fillings as a child.

even cleanings aren't fun though. =( i hope i never end up on the business end of a root canal.

Ha. Me too. I've been saying "I haven't gone to the dentist in like 7 years" for like 4 years now...
I'm afaid of what they will do to me when I finally go again.

It's the picks and scraping. And the pain.

*shivers*

Edited to add: I prefer female hygienists, at least some of whom I have found to be gentler. But I was told once to get a male dentist and tell him, "You can do whatever you want with me teeth as long as, while you're working on them, I can hold your balls in my hand."

[Edited on Sep 18, 2005 by StickyRice]