[MelodyL]

Since I have always been a phobic, I thought it would be cool to start a thread about unusual dental experiences.

No horror stories please. Just funny, or unusual. We all must have some of those. I know I do.

This way, if we use humor, it just might make someone laugh and they could forget their pain for a bit.

Here's my first story.

I was 15 and back in the day you had to get dental notes filled for school. I never got them filled. I just wouldn't bring them home to my mother.

The school called my mother and she got wise to me. She made an appointment. I even remember the dentist's name. It was Dr. Franzetti. Isn't it amazing what we remember from years gone by. AND THIS WAS 47 YEARS AGO.

I remember it like it happened yesterday.

I was sitting in the chair about to have something done. Some filling or something. And of course my chest was beating a million times a minute.

Back in those days, they would have you wait in one room (sitting in the chair with the big white napkin around your neck) while the dentist was working on another person in the other room.

So the dental assistant puts this contraption in my mouth. It was big and silver and I have no idea what the heck is was doing in my mouth. I was going to get SOMETHING worked on but for the life of me, I can't remember. I do remember sitting in that chair for 30 minutes while the dentist was in the other room. I had cotton balls stuffed in my mouth and this big silver contraption that was secured to one of my teeth.

I ran out of the office, DENTAL CONTRAPTION IN MY MOUTH AND ALL!!!

I remember it was a brick front to the office. I remember running in the street, unscrewing this silver thing from inside my mouth, pulling out the cotton balls, and throwing everything in the street.

I then went home and my mother said "How did it go"? and I said "oh, I'm fine, everything is fine".

I never went back.

Good Lord!!!

lol

[sandy60]

Originally Posted by MelodyL

Since I have always been a phobic, I thought it would be cool to start a thread about unusual dental experiences.

No horror stories please. Just funny, or unusual. We all must have some of those. I know I do.

This way, if we use humor, it just might make someone laugh and they could forget their pain for a bit.

Here's my first story.

I was 15 and back in the day you had to get dental notes filled for school. I never got them filled. I just wouldn't bring them home to my mother.

The school called my mother and she got wise to me. She made an appointment. I even remember the dentist's name. It was Dr. Franzetti. Isn't it amazing what we remember from years gone by. AND THIS WAS 47 YEARS AGO.

I remember it like it happened yesterday.

I was sitting in the chair about to have something done. Some filling or something. And of course my chest was beating a million times a minute.

Back in those days, they would have you wait in one room (sitting in the chair with the big white napkin around your neck) while the dentist was working on another person in the other room.

So the dental assistant puts this contraption in my mouth. It was big and silver and I have no idea what the heck is was doing in my mouth. I was going to get SOMETHING worked on but for the life of me, I can't remember. I do remember sitting in that chair for 30 minutes while the dentist was in the other room. I had cotton balls stuffed in my mouth and this big silver contraption that was secured to one of my teeth.

I ran out of the office, DENTAL CONTRAPTION IN MY MOUTH AND ALL!!!

I remember it was a brick front to the office. I remember running in the street, unscrewing this silver thing from inside my mouth, pulling out the cotton balls, and throwing everything in the street.

I then went home and my mother said "How did it go"? and I said "oh, I'm fine, everything is fine".

I never went back.

Good Lord!!!

lol

OK...here's mine. My dentist was working on my teeth when one of the lenses fell out of his glasses onto my chest. He couldn't see what he was doing now! So he had to stop and pry it back in. I wasn't too humored at the moment having a mouth open and a dentist who couldn't see but now it's funny! One of the funniest scenes in a movie was in "The In-Laws" where Alan Arkin plays a dentist and he runs off somewhere with his friend and leaves a woman on the chair with a contraption in her mouth.

[MelodyL]

Originally Posted by sandy60

OK...here's mine. My dentist was working on my teeth when one of the lenses fell out of his glasses onto my chest. He couldn't see what he was doing now! So he had to stop and pry it back in. I wasn't too humored at the moment having a mouth open and a dentist who couldn't see but now it's funny! One of the funniest scenes in a movie was in "The In-Laws" where Alan Arkin plays a dentist and he runs off somewhere with his friend and leaves a woman on the chair with a contraption in her mouth.

Very funny.

Here's another funny one from my past.

I was 22 and needed two front crowns. Never had a crown before. So my mother found me a dentist who puts you to sleep. I was fine. Got the temp crowns first and the guy explains to me that "next week, your permanent crowns will be ready, and we'll take off the two temps and put your permanent ones in". I said "okay", THINKING THAT HE'S GOING TO PUT ME TO SLEEP for the next visit.

Next week I waltz in there and he sets out to work on me WITH NOTHING, NO SLEEP, NO NOTHING.

I look at him and yell "Are you out of your mind?, Put me to sleep"

He looked at me like I lost my marbles, and quietly explained, "Melody, I'm just going to take off the temps and put on the permanent, it's only a little pressure, don't worry"

I then looked at him and yelled again "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND".

Honestly, I did this, I remember it like it was yesterday.

The guy sighs and says "Okay, let's do this a bit differently, I'll give you gas".

NEVER HAD THIS BEFORE IN MY LIFE, I had heard of laughing gas, but never experienced it. He explains it all to me. He explains that he's going to put a mask over my face, I'm to breathe in the nitrous oxide (at least I think this is what it is), and I'll be all calm and happy, and he'll do his thing.

Well, he sets about to do this, he places the mask over my face, I breathe in and I got the opposite reaction. I gather that because I was nervous, my brain went into over drive but MY BODY WENT RELAXED.

So I'm expecting for my face and brain to be all happy but it affected me from the neck down.

I started yelling 'ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND".

The guy (who had never had anyone react like this before), just stood up, sighed, took off the mask and yelled to his assistant.

"Get the anesthesia ready, we've got to put her out'.

The rest was just fine.

I was probably the patient from hell.

I'm much better now, because it's 40 years later, and dentistry has come a long long way.

I don't know if they even use laughing gas any more.

People, keep the stories coming. We all need to share our experiences so we can help others to face their fears, laugh and get their teeth nice and pretty.

lol

Melody

[mrsD]

My mouth got STUCK shut while making a mold for a crown. Dentist couldn't get it off!

I thought I'd have a nervous breakdown, it was the most anxiety producing thing EVER!

Also the first time I got my first crown, they put me in the chair for the
final application, and there were a jillion drill bits all lined up on the tray...I mean I was petrified! Turns out the dentist grabs a bit and goes behind ME, and starts drilling, and it was the crown he was adjusting. I just laughed and laughed (this was a gold crown).
I thought those bits were all for my mouth and no one clued me in at all.

[MelodyL]

Good Story Mrs. D!!!

C'mon People. share your stories. You'll laugh as you write it.

Here's another little ditty from days gone by.

I must have been 17 or so (old enough to be able to travel by myself without my mother accompanying me), so I was an older teen.

I had yet ANOTHER dental appointment with yet another dentist.

The following is EXACTLY how it took place.

I go to the appointment. I am taken to a little room. I sit in the chair, the dental assistant places the bib around me and she positions the little cup of water that you rinse with after your work is done.

Now my mind is racing to and fro and I can't imagine what's going to happen. I forget why I was there.

And the dentist walks in.

AND HE SMILES.

AND HIS TEETH AND GUMS ARE GREEN. The man had a green mouth!!! I will NEVER forget this as long as I live.

Can you IMAGINE me sitting in this chair petrified and this MAN WITH A GREEN MOUTH IS SMILING AT ME.

I took one look, and I yelled:

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND (there I go again, with the Are You Out of Your Mind). You are NOT going to touch me!!!

He looked completely clueless as I undid my bib and ran out of the place.

A GREEN DENTIST.

What the heck was he, the JOLLY GREEN DENTIST!!!!

lol lol lol

Melody