I’m about to give myself a root canal/filling. I have no dental training. But the pain is more than I can bare.
Ask me anything.
I’m scared guys.
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joke answer: murica
actual answer: extract lidocane from anal lube and then use it to numb the area, also practice on some pig jaws while using a mirror as you would for the real thing
Bruh. Just get lidocane from the pharmacy, it’s not restricted.
Anal. Lube.
Why do that when you already have so much anal lube?
Oh, he knows. 😏
in some places it’s restricted, and where it’s not you need a prescription from a doctor (which defeats the whole point of doing it yourself)
Consider going to a dental school. The one I went to was like half price of a regular one.
Good luck dude, I pulled my own tooth one time and it is not something I would like to do again
What in the murica?
Murica the land of the stupid where you either die or go broke from medical care sometimes both, but at least we got bombs for little kids
Murica.
If you’re not sure what the difference is between a root canal and a dental filling, I can’t imagine this possibly ending well.
A root canal procedure requires the drilled cavity to be filled and then a surface filling after the abscess is drained. I think their wording is fine.
You have to completely replace the root of the tooth in a root canal. It’d make more sense just to pull the tooth if you were doing it yourself.
That’s not how root canals work. They drill through the top into the creamy nerve center and then clean out the nerve and replace that with some packing material. The root of the tooth is still there though. I completely agree that pulling would be the way better option however.
Last year I had to do a root canal. The anesthesia did not took effect in my tooth and the dentist said that she could not apply more anesthesia cause I already had took an amount equivalent to 5 persons. It was agonizing.
Thats sounds traumatic, holy shit.
Yeah… It was painful as shit. But once she reached my root and applied anesthesia directly to the root, my pain was gone. But yes, it was f painful and traumatic
Do you smoke weed by any chance? There’s a cross-tolerance between cannabinoids and local anesthetics.
No weeds. It’s only inflamation, that also inhibit the effect of anesthesia
Oh shit, thank you for telling me! Need to make sure I mention that whenever I need a filling next. I already get really anxious going to the dentist, extra pain would not be a good time
No probs, I talk from experience. I had two wisdom teeth extracted. With the first one I didn’t notice anything, but by the second one the anesthetic wore off and it was hell on earth.
Wow that sounds brutal. I’ve had two and a few teeth removed, but the anesthesia has always completely numbed the area. I can’t imagine being able to feel that.
Oh, man… It was… Don’t try a root canal without anesthesia…
I guess that happened because my tooth had an inflammation that prevented the anesthesia to take effect
Happened to me as well. Tooth got infected so bad that OTC painkillers did not work anymore. The anesthesia made the painful area smaller, but could not eliminate it entirely due to the acidity of the infection. Still, it was much better than the pain from the infected tooth.
Go to the dentist folks. And if you are afraid of them, like I was, find a very kind one and get help before the pain forces you to get over the fear.
By any chance, are you a redhead?
No. Regular dark hair
I got a pretty bad infection on my thumb years ago from biting my nails. Doctor had to remove a chunk of infected tissue/pus or whatever it was using a scalpel. He tried 3 times to do local anesthesia, didn’t work, so finally he said he just needed to get it done. It was the most agonizing thing I’ve ever experienced.
Do you still bite your nails after that? Not judging, genuinely curious.
Woah, filling cavities with the help of a soldering iron. Nggggg no no no
I think that’s a rotary tool. Like a Dremel
I bestow upon thee the sentation of a tooth shattering in its socket
Yikes. I thought that looked like a soldering iron, but I really hoped I was wrong. Damn.
Anybody else noticed there’s is no green text to read at all?
Man I’ve been there. If it wasn’t for being able to buy fishflex (Cefalexin) and/or fishmox (Amoxicillin) from the pet store, I would have probably done something similar.
My advice: Move to EU
Or go to Mexico, got to TJ for a root canal for a third the price and get $75 hookers that you pick from the strippers in the club below the hour rate hotel. You can get a root canal, 4 hookers, a hotel for a few days, and a round trip ticket for the prices of one root canal in the US.
Hooray, sex tourism.
Rather die
