Warning: on the subject of dentistry

[celemon]

Today as the dreaded visit to the dentist to deal with my painfully cracked tooth. I warmly recommend people not to have an emergency root canal - the local anaesthesia doesn't quite work. The tooth, however, now has a temporary over-the-summer filling and will perhaps not hurt anymore. I might even be off painkillers in the foreseeable future

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[paleolithical]

My one gold filling (half-crown?) is from one of those; it had started to crack, so it was better to take it apart under controlled forms. And I've never even _had_ any cavities. But since the uneven surface would inevitably turn into cavities the drill and amalgam was used, it being the standard material back then. But they expand, and will crack teeth eventually. My dentist (a good one; I will continue to go there even when he is over 500 km away) has gotten almost all of them out by now, so hopefully I should be saved the future indignity of having my healthy teeth fall apart.

1970s (school) dentistry; we hates it. It's not as if they asked the parents before either (my mother is a dentists daughter, she was quite livid at the time)

[celemon]

I think we both suffered from the 1970s dentistry...I have only a few fillings, quite possibly unnecessary since my teeth tend to heal on their own.