Topic: What are you doing right now?

[Beatrix]

Getting sleepy, thank goodness. 

[6pairsofshoes]

drinking wine and pondering life on line.

[smokester]

I have a root canal in a few hours. 

I hope he gets everything.  The 2 teeth I have gold capped (no, they're not at the front) still have a partial part of the nerve.  Even warm water is painful.

[xtopave]

ouch and I thought going to work was bad
best of luck

Thank you goldie. I'm really fine. Not any pain at any moment.

Hope you get through that procedure quickly and with little discomfort.  Root canals are annoying and weird.  Hours of some person rooting around in yr mouth.  Tiresome.

Indeed! It took almost 2 hrs.

Even warm water is painful.

What happened to me was very weird (although the endodontist told me it isn't uncommon): I was in an airplane 4 days ago and suddenly felt a short, powerful, painful shock of electricity in a molar (that's the best way to describe it) that literally made me jump in my seat. I had several of those sensations during the 1.5 hrs of flight. Then nothing during the 6 hrs in the airport waiting for our connection until I caught the other plane and the exact same thing happened again. It didn't bother me again since I got home.

[dweez]

Was that air pockets or something in the tooth/root responding to pressure changes?  I've heard of this happening to fillings.

[xtopave]

Was that air pockets or something in the tooth/root responding to pressure changes?  I've heard of this happening to fillings.

That's my bet too. Pressure changes affecting the necrotic nerve. 

[6pairsofshoes]

Most root canals aren't painful in themselves, it's the injection of anaesthetic (novocaine or whatever) and the soreness in jaw muscles from having one's mouth propped open to an unusual degree for hours on end that usually bothered me afterward.

They are annoying, but you have to admire the person who knows enough to do one competently.  They take years of training.  I have often wondered what motivates people to go into dentistry.  It seems an odd calling.

[xtopave]

I have often wondered what motivates people to go into dentistry.  It seems an odd calling.

I think I mentioned before I come from a family of dentists (mother, father, uncles, cousins, godparents are dentists). The person that performed my root canal is the daughter of a good friend of my father's who's an endodontist and both her daughters turned out endodontists. Since they were little girls they used to play dentist with their dolls. Me?! It never, ever crossed my mind being a dentist. I hope I'd like it cause it would have made my life way more easy.

[goldshirt*9]

after 8 hours at a funeral and wake, off to sleep it all off

[xtopave]

after 8 hours at a funeral and wake, off to sleep it all off

Oh, man, 8 hrs?! 

[smokester]

Trying to watch Hannibal, but it ain't really doing much for me.

Maybe I'm just too tired.

[mishca09]

 I like it but it might be because of the eye candy

[xtopave]

Trying to watch Hannibal, but it ain't really doing much for me.

Maybe I'm just too tired.

I'm struggling with the 3rd episode right this minute. I think I'm going to bed.

[goldshirt*9]

I guess its the tv series not the film
A little hung over ATM 

[6pairsofshoes]

I think I mentioned before I come from a family of dentists (mother, father, uncles, cousins, godparents are dentists). The person that performed my root canal is the daughter of a good friend of my father's who's an endodontist and both her daughters turned out endodontists. Since they were little girls they used to play dentist with their dolls. Me?! It never, ever crossed my mind being a dentist. I hope I'd like it cause it would have made my life way more easy.

My dentist's father was a dentist, his son is his assistant.  His partner sat next to him in dental school.  He's a real craftsman, gentle, and skilled.