tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post6497900742141982214..comments2024-03-01T00:28:27.209-05:00Comments on Hello Ello: The Devil's DentistEllo - Ellen Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18311917335471167591noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-86173109641038153082008-04-11T00:59:00.000-04:002008-04-11T00:59:00.000-04:00Oh man! my mouth hurts just reading this...My chin...Oh man! my mouth hurts just reading this...<br>My chin and lower jaw are still numb from when I had my wisdom teeth removed in the military in 1972 - us E-3's didn't get the nice anesthesia that civilians got...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-28969133101758822902008-04-11T02:10:00.000-04:002008-04-11T02:10:00.000-04:00I read your story in true HORROR. But this was whe...I read your story in true HORROR. But this was when I started to laugh: <i> But all that comes out is a long stringy line of drool.</i><br><br>Ello, this was brilliant.<br><br>And you conclusion hits me right on the nail. Or on the gums. <br><br>*still shivering*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-79656345962612863552008-04-11T06:50:00.000-04:002008-04-11T06:50:00.000-04:00Poor Ello: I laughed my way through your story, bu...Poor Ello: I laughed my way through your story, but something like this is only funny AFTER the fact. I had a root canal done the last year I was in Japan, but I didn't figure out that it was a root canal per se until it was almost done. Dental visits in Japan are dragged out for maximum financial gain (for the dentist, of course), and mine took about twelve visits in all. On the third to the last visit, it suddenly hit me. I asked the dentist if he was doing a root canal and he gave me the funniest look. "What did you think I was doing?" Boy, I'm glad I didn't know earlier. <br><br>I tell dentists and doctors to warn me when it's going to hurt; that if they tell me it won't and it does, I'll be pissed off. That usually does the trick, especially when I fix them with my eye (the one that doesn't work on kids seems to work okay on doctors and dentists).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-82404340515093303932008-04-11T07:22:00.000-04:002008-04-11T07:22:00.000-04:00Ello: My prof is a forensic dentist.. he goes into...Ello: My prof is a forensic dentist.. he goes into prisons all the time to take court ordered bite mark impressions... if the prisoner gives him a hard time... he's quite gleefully nasty in return... in a dentist-y torturesome kind of way.<br><br>Ouch!<br><br>Feel better.<br><br>I'm gonna go floss now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-14647654832862507402008-04-11T07:58:00.000-04:002008-04-11T07:58:00.000-04:00Ell,You hit my one fear spot on! I absolutely hat...Ell,<br><br>You hit my one fear spot on! I absolutely <i>hate</i> dentists. I can feel your pain.<br><br>I've had wounds stitched without anesthesia and I'd rather do that than sit in a dentist chair!<br><br>If I were ever captured, all the enemy need do to interrogate me is sit me in a dentist chair. I'll tell them everything and even make some stuff up!<br><br>;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-79258272308480000502008-04-11T08:18:00.000-04:002008-04-11T08:18:00.000-04:00Oh God Ello - you have touched on a deep vein of f...Oh God Ello - you have touched on a deep vein of fear there! Sorry I laughed but you are so good at telling a story!<br>When I was 9 I broke a molar and had to have an extraction. The roots of my teeth (to quote my late mother) are anchored to the Queen Mary. He waited the normal minute or two for the anaesthetic to take and then went to work pulling the tooth. I screamed and cried that it hurt but was told - "It can't possibly hurt" and he carried on. My mouth and face froze in the car on the way home. I have since found out that it takes quite a while and normally two injections to freeze my jaw. Now if I can manage, it I just use the gel.<br>I just had my teeth cleaned and she had to go up under the gum. It was deeply unpleasant but I'd rather do that than lose my teeth. Still!<br>June is my next appointment with pain!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-68992877155087154212008-04-11T09:14:00.000-04:002008-04-11T09:14:00.000-04:00"Deep tissue gum cleaning" just reading that sound..."Deep tissue gum cleaning" just reading that sounds not fun. <br><br>Good post. Funny but horrifying at the time I'm sure. I hope it feels better now and you have your real eyeball back, not that marble they put in :)<br><br>PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-46623704366422123932008-04-11T09:31:00.000-04:002008-04-11T09:31:00.000-04:00Now that's true horror.Now <i> that's </i> true horror.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-66887831518573455012008-04-11T09:50:00.000-04:002008-04-11T09:50:00.000-04:00Ello, I can sympathize with you. I had the same de...Ello, <br>I can sympathize with you. I had the same denist from age ten until 4 years ago. He ALWAYS hurt me. He could rarely make me go "numb" without a multitude of shots, and then I could still feel the drill. I had tears everytime I went, and high anxiety before every visit...not to mention the price I PAID for the torture.<br><br>Imagine my "fear" when I headed down to Mexico to get my mercury fillings removed and replaced. I made four visits to in the Tijuana denist in 6 days. The shots didn't hurt due to his technique. He used a fraction of the "numbing juice," and I could hardly tell he worked in my mouth...pain-wise. AND he charged $50 a tooth...period. No consultation fees. No extras.<br><br>I was amazed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-74824827627147088772008-04-11T10:07:00.000-04:002008-04-11T10:07:00.000-04:00I wanted to laugh, but I'm curled in this fetal po...I wanted to laugh, but I'm curled in this fetal position and sucking my thumb. <br><br>This is why I go to the dentist once every seven years. That is what they recommend, right? <br><br>Right...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-35749559493167607252008-04-11T10:26:00.000-04:002008-04-11T10:26:00.000-04:00I just went to the dentist a few weeks ago and he ...I just went to the dentist a few weeks ago and he told me I need two crowns. Can you say big bucks? <br><br>Of course, if I had gone to the dentist when I was supposed to, I probably wouldn't NEED the crowns...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-58785214629003954392008-04-11T10:48:00.000-04:002008-04-11T10:48:00.000-04:00I'm afraid to read all of this because I'm afraid ...I'm afraid to read all of this because I'm afraid if I go to the dentist he will want to do this to ME. I thought you were a humor writer but you sure have a knack for horror.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-51493329713400470252008-04-11T12:03:00.000-04:002008-04-11T12:03:00.000-04:00Oh my God! The whole time I was reading this I kep...Oh my God! The whole time I was reading this I kept getting flashbacks to Dustin Hoffman in The Marathon Man --- am I a bad person if I say I was in horror, but cracking up at the same time?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-13820997218906347282008-04-11T12:10:00.000-04:002008-04-11T12:10:00.000-04:00Oh, this post is again hilarious! I had a temporar...Oh, this post is again hilarious! <br><br>I had a temporary crown put in last week, and also got four needles in my mouth. My ear went numb. I'm pretty sure I don't have teeth in my ear. In other words, I <i>completely</i> empathize with you on this. <br><br>And when I got out, I could barely speak well enough to make the appointment to get the permanent crown cemented in (that happens today). Thank goodness the receptionists have experience translating Drool-Flap Gibberish, a notoriously tricky language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-28244770216846358532008-04-11T13:13:00.000-04:002008-04-11T13:13:00.000-04:00Oh man! I'm trying to tuck my teeth far behind my ...Oh man! I'm trying to tuck my teeth far behind my lips. This is gross and funny at the same time!<br>I've never heard of that procedure. It sounds like flossing gone bad. The marble eyeball thing too. Where do you come up with this stuff!<br>:-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-15930719897804670902008-04-11T13:34:00.000-04:002008-04-11T13:34:00.000-04:00OUCH! I feel your pain, Ello.OUCH! I feel your pain, Ello.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-21718526222924309032008-04-11T13:49:00.000-04:002008-04-11T13:49:00.000-04:00i always call my dental visits the "Two times a ye...i always call my dental visits the "Two times a year blood letting"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-34397225877345661822008-04-11T14:40:00.000-04:002008-04-11T14:40:00.000-04:00We should convalesce and eat pudding together.We should convalesce and eat pudding together.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-37163121310101495222008-04-11T15:11:00.000-04:002008-04-11T15:11:00.000-04:00I just rescheduled a dental visit for a cleaning. ...I just rescheduled a dental visit for a cleaning. I'm dialing their number right now so I can cancel it indefinitely. <br><br>Hilarious, brilliant post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-62236228575729543702008-04-11T15:14:00.000-04:002008-04-11T15:14:00.000-04:00ow ow ow ow ow ow hahahahaha ow ow ow ow ow ow owF...ow ow ow ow ow ow hahahahaha ow ow ow ow ow ow ow<br><br>Feel better! And take REALLY GOOD CARE of your teeth so that bad man never does that to you again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-47018862175423090672008-04-11T16:01:00.000-04:002008-04-11T16:01:00.000-04:00I know it probably makes us wicked to laugh at you...I know it probably makes us wicked to laugh at your pain...but, my god, that was sooo funny!!...I still break out in chuckles when I think of your numbed eye. Sorry.<br>:DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-43906728996449012382008-04-11T21:03:00.000-04:002008-04-11T21:03:00.000-04:00Ello, try going to a woman. It makes all the diff...Ello, try going to a woman. It makes all the difference in the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-79217235711684252762008-04-12T12:52:00.000-04:002008-04-12T12:52:00.000-04:00you are making me twitch the dentist chair twitch....you are making me twitch the dentist chair twitch...and i didn't have anything done. ~shiver~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-41037404675436275502008-04-13T11:31:00.000-04:002008-04-13T11:31:00.000-04:00Thanks for the warning. If my dentist (who I plan...Thanks for the warning. If my dentist (who I plan to see again in about 10 years) says the words "deep tissue gum cleaning" I will know to run for the hills! Cause this wouldn't be nearly so funny if it happened to me. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4595491177347226789.post-20878392426562632252008-04-13T13:55:00.000-04:002008-04-13T13:55:00.000-04:00Oh. My. God.My toes are curling.I'm now running of...Oh. My. God.<br><br>My toes are curling.<br><br>I'm now running off to floss.<br><br>Furiously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com