Angioplasty surgery / stenting..

[beenthere]

Don't let dentist freeze (novocaine ?) when putting on crown or doing my fillings.
Seem to be very careful how they proceed, and I don't have the after effects of a numb mouth.

[kantuckid]

Since 2009 I used the U of KY dental college for my care. I quit them recently as I was being moved to "faculty rate" for oral surgery work I needed plus the doc there was not to my liking nor was his plan. Covid was said to factor into being moved away from one dept to a new one. My theory was they needed work at the new prosthodontics section and the maxilla facial oral surgery place gets lots of jailbirds and other Medicaid type patients, so I was ditched. After years of great service they managed to tick me off royally. I'd paid serious money for all the scans, etc. to get oral surgery and implants, then covid hit, they shut down and when it all started up again they were way behind plus I had to pay for new scans all over again and I kissed them goodbye.
 Call it a dental bureaucracy as that fits pretty well.  
   
The students come & go as they graduate but all do adhere to common practices of care which dictate Novocain sometimes not others. I was asked if I wanted to be numbed lots of times and always chose no.  True, the needle often hurts more than a minor procedure.

I'm same age as trapper and my childhood dentist used gas which never knocked me out at all. The pain was there as if I'd had nothing.  At the dental college you could opt for gas, no needle and many old people did that. 
My new oral surgeon and my referring dentist (employee of a regional hospital) give 25% off for cash customers plus their rate schedule is way lower than any other dental providers.
Here in eastern KY, my Wifes first dentist sat on a bicycle like machine and pedaled it to power his dental drill, how's that for old time dental work. :D
   

[doctorb]

Look, I'm not a great fan of dentists either, because, as a kid, I had the exact same experience as trapper.  But, seeing where this thread has migrated, it looks like a dental procedure ranks right up there in severity and concern with coronary artery disease and angioplasty! :D

[realzed]

Personally - and given the choice between the two - I'd take the dentistry choice behind Door #2.. and I fully admit those old noisy and cable powered drills they used back 60 or more years ago still live in my mind and cause me cold sweats every time I have an appointment, to this day! 

[Ed_K]

 And I have 4 cavity's to get drilled tomorrow  :(. 

[Dave Shepard]

I'm trying to get a dentist appointment. September, maybe, is the closest I've gotten so far.  :

[thecfarm]

realzed, don't look up on the internet what ails ya.   :D
I have a missing bone in my neck found after an MRA. Has some official name, acria? I looked that up on the internet after I was told by the one that read the MRA about it. Wrong thing to do!!! People had it operated on and some had massive pain from it and so on and so on!!! I went to the Dr where the diagnose on the MRA and voiced my concerned about the missing bone.  His theory was, you made it 40 years and no problem, why fix it. Don't look on the internet for good news. 
I had to agree with him. 20 years later still all fine.  ;D
Now the dentist.
Find one that will listen to you.
I almost walked out on one!!
Growing up not much money, never went to a dentist.
I was going in later years to have them removed. I had one dentist that gave me a shot and then tried to extract the tooth!!!! 
I spoke right up and asked, What are you doing!!! That takes time to set up and work. 
He still thought he was going to extract it until I started to get up out of the chair and head for the door.
He got me back in the chair but as I told him, we are going to wait at least 15 minutes for that to set up.
Well, he did, but I could tell he was not happy about it, never went back to him!!!
Then had a few more extracted by others, they all waited for it to work.  A very good job. 
Even had a root canal done and I fell asleep on her, that's how comfortable she made me feel. 
The good ones are out there, I found 3 of them, just keep looking.
They should use a small needle first, let that set up and then use a big needle.
 Note the small needle and let that set up part.  ;)
My theory is, No reason for pain seeing a dentist, discomfit, but no pain.

[kantuckid]

In MANY dental visits the needle gauge has never entered the scene.