Now with added titanium!

[randomness]

Dentist: "Congratulations, you now have an implant."

Dentist: "I need to warn you about what's coming next. It's going to feel like I'm thumping your skull with a hammer."
Me: "Well, because you are."
Dentist "Um, pretty much, yeah."

It's a wacky experience having a mallet (which looks something like a ball-peen hammer with nylon faces) and a ratchet wrench used on your skull in fairly rapid succession. Not surprisingly, I'm a little woozy.

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Oops. I'm sorry, maybe I should have put that behind a cut.

For most procedures, the worst part for me is getting injected with novocaine. After that, it's all quite interesting in a somewhat academic way, particularly when they tell me what they're doing. So, no real bravery involved.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

The novocaine is the worst part for me too-- why is that? I mean other than that in my case the last time a dentist gave me a shot of novocaine he thought there was a vasoconstriction reaction, but I suspect what happened was he hit the nerve trunk by accident. Either way now I can't hold still for novocaine, but _before_ that, why is it the hard part?

I will never understand why I can tolerate other kinds of pain far better than needles. Makes no sense.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

I had a bad experience with novocaine as a little kid, probably similar to yours. Since then I've been terrified of novocaine. Luckily so far I've had good teeth and have only needed a couple of fillings, which I can handle without any meds. Gd help me when I start needing root canals and such.