The Dentist.

My Son decided not to go back to the dentist when he realized he had to start paying, after he left school. He rang me recently to ask, “Can you ring my dentist, to ask if I can come and see them, as I have never ever experienced pain like this before.” I rang our dentist but as it was Saturday, they were closed, I listened to the messages for where he could go both near and far that day, I wrote them down and texted them to him. I also told him what painkiller tablets he can take while he is waiting for his appointment date, as he wasn’t able to go that day, he has to wait until he gets paid!

I knew I’d be having a tooth out yesterday, and I really wasn’t looking forward to it, at all. I’d talked about it with another Staff Member at work and he told me, “My grandfather had to have his tooth tied to a door and the door was slammed shut to remove the tooth!” I knew that happened but I didn’t realize it was that recent in my lifetime. We were both glad we didn’t live in those times.

Recently when I went to my dentist, I asked the receptionist there, “Do you like going to the dentist?” Her reply shocked me, she said, “I am forty years old, and I have never had a filling nor had a tooth removed.” I asked, “Do you have a sweet tooth?” She replied, “No my parents mainly didn’t give us sweet things,” She went on, “My Mum told me that when she was young, on her way home from school, she would buy sherbet fountains, dipping her finger into the sweet powered tube,” I said, “I remembered that well, I probably went to school with your Mum.” I told her, “Times were different back then, I wished I didn’t have a sweet tooth, but to our credit our kids have lovely teeth.”

Yesterday before I had my tooth out, I told my dentist about one of her receptionists that, “She is forty years old and has never had a filling nor a tooth out,” I added, “She’s my hero.” My Dentist said, “I don’t know which receptionist you mean, but that is unusual.”

My dentist, before she put the first injection in she put a small cotton wool with anastatic on to sort of deaden the pain of the first injection, I still felt it and she warned me that the one on the other side of my tooth would hurt and it did.

After it went numb, she proceeded to remove the tooth, I’d already thought and talked about people around the world, with the Staff Member earlier, who still don’t have such luxuries like I had here in front of me, everything clean and as much painkillers as I needed, even though the dreaded did happen, the tooth broke off, but the main thing is, she got it all out.

It was a relief.

I am on the waiting list to have my wisdom tooth out in hospital; I’m REALLY not looking forward to that!