I am pissed at the procedure I had today! Does this sound normal to you?????

I had an abcessed tooth. My wisdom tooth. I made an emergency appt. last week and today they extracted it! This dentist had an office that looked like a closet. The receptionist was the dental assistant. The dentist gave me one shot of novacaine and waited for about 8 minutes. He proceeded to "rock" my tooth from side to side with a 'forceps' and of course I felt the pressure. He gave me one more shot of novacaine.


Then my tooth had a HUGE black hole in it from the decay (gross I know) So it crumbled right away.


Then he started to drill my tooth in half so he could get it out 1 root at a time.


One more shot of novacaine.


3 in all.


Now I can take ALOT of pain I have had 2 C-sections! This shyte hurt like no other.


My appt. was at 3pm I got there 10 minutes early, we started right away.


I did not get out until 4:37pm.


When the first root came out, I choked on it and they had to sit me up and blood started squirting out of my nose and I almost puked and the tooth came out.

I am pissed at the procedure I had today! Does this sound normal to you?????
He doesn't sound like the best dentist in the world, but nothing you could call negligent. Unfortunately you are partly to blame, don't you think? You didn't make it easy for him by allowing your tooth to rot and abscess, which then led to a fracture during the extraction - I'll bet he didn't want it to fracture either. Decay doesn't happen overnight, so I'm guessing that you don't have regular checkups.


Try and take it as an instructive experience which you wouldn't want again. Ask for suggestions from family and friends for a nicer dentist, and start up annual check-ups. At least you'll have a chance of getting in to someone you like should the necessity arise again.