Wisdom Teeth and Dental Sedation
Question submitted by Candace: I am writing because my twenty-one year old daughter needs to have her wisdom teeth removed. Her dentist said that one of them is under some bone that may need to be removed. He wondered if we’d be more comfortable with an oral surgeon under anesthesia instead of with a regular […]
Read More...Should I Switch to an Oral Surgeon for My Extraction?
Question submitted by Charlie: I’ll be honest up front that I have problems with going to the dentist. That led to me putting off a tooth which was bothering me. When the pain became more than I could bear, I went to a dentist who did a root canal treatment. I will admit that I […]
Read More...Need a Dental Crown and I’m Terrified
Question submitted by Laurie I was told that I need a dental crown because I have a tooth with a cavity. Apparently, the cavity is too big for just a filling. I am terrified of the idea of having my teeth ground down. I don’t like going to the dentist in general. How much does […]
Read More...Dentist Can’t Get Me Numb
Question submitted by Damion I had a horrible experience at the dentist the other day. It was my first time getting a dental crown. Even after seven shots, the dentist could not get me numb. He said he’d never had that happen before and gave me some antibiotics to hold me over. We’re going to […]
Read More...Novocain Doesn’t Work for Me
Question submitted by Avery I have some type of reaction to Novocain. I don’t know how to really explain it. I’m not allergic to it. It doesn’t make me itch or anything. The problem is that it does absolutely nothing. It does not numb me. It does not do anything. Instead, I am left with […]
Read More...She Needs to See a Specialist
Question submitted by: Caroline For the last couple of weeks, I have been having tooth pain. Because of my dental anxiety, I don’t really have a dentist. I was hurting, so I did go to see an emergency dentist. He did an x-ray and said that there is now an infection on a tooth that […]
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