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firefightersgal
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Anyone have dental work done with nitrous oxide?
firefightersgal
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I have to have a wisdom tooth extracted. It is partially out of the gum, but my dentist said because of it being on the lower jaw and how it is positioned, it will not be a fun extraction. I'm not terribly thrilled to be at the dentist anyway, so he said that I could chose to be sedated with nitrous oxide or a heavier sedative. I don't really want to be out of commission for the entire day, so I'm leaning more toward the laughing gas. However, I've never had an experience with it.
Have you? Thanks!
Have you? Thanks!
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Re: Anyone have dental work done with nitrous oxide?
Thanks! She loves bubbles. She kept saying, "C'mere, bubbles, c'mere! I catch you!"
awww! I love it.
I lOVE your new sig!!
and "YES!!!! I fraking giggled through my whole procedure (all 4 wisdom teeth out at once, 3 impacted.) I didnt want to be knocked out, so I got the gas, and it was AWESOME!!!
Also, I hear the recovery is way better (it sucks no matter what, but my brother got knocked out and barfed and was really sick after his procedure...) I was just in a lot of pain.
I hope you have some help with the princess for a couple of days after, you'll need it!
also: the hotel in Golden (at like, 6th and Sims) Candlewood Suites
it is like right between downtown and the mountains (foothills, really.)OK based on my mum being a dentist and my having assisted her as a teenager...here goes. BTW she did a ton of extracting "wizzies" in the chair, the really impacted ones she would insist were done in a hospital as day surgery.
1. the gas is risky, honestly I wouldn't take the gas for anything. She had several instances of colleagues calling her (we lived in a small town with a few dentists) for assistance, or just to cover their patients while they had to deal with a gas-related emergency. She wasn't very happy about using gas on people unless she had a spare nurse, and often for complex cases like wizzies she'd want her brother to come over (he's a Dr, and was an ER doc at the time). According to both of them (and he'd been a dentist before doing med) gas is taken way too lightly.
2. the gas is not that effective for extractions. Usually when she did use it, it would be for a really nervous patient who didn't really need the extra pain relief but needed to be calmed down for something less serious. She wouldn't even let me have the gas when I had my fillings done as a kid, she told me it wasn't worth the risk.
I would go with the higher sedative, I assume he means an opiate of some kind given by mandibular block? Just be aware that skill is everything in giving effective mandibular blocks. Everyone misses one occasionally, my mum has a fantastic record, about a 1 in 15 chance of needing to re-do it. Her students (she now supervises students and new graduates at a public clinic) have about a 1 in 4 chance of re-doing it. Most experienced dentists are around the 1 in 10 or so mark.
GL! Wizzies are awful. Personally I was grateful I had mine done under general anesthetic in hospital (they were badly impacted).
I had a wisdom tooth taken out a few years ago with just local anesthesia. That really sucked. I'm not doing that again--especially if the dentist is saying it is going to be a lot harder this time around. I just remembered the name of the other drug--Lorazapan (sic). They carry it on the ambulances for seizure patients and the like. DH talked to the paramedic he works with about it and he said it's pretty heavy stuff.
I think I scheduled my extraction on a day that DH is just getting off work, so he'll be home to help for 48 hours. YAY for his schedule!
Alex (11/14/06) and Nate (5/25/10)
"Want what you have, do what you can, be who you are." - Rev. Forrest Church
Thanks!
Get something stronger. I love the gas and never turn it down, its a great high
But its not enough for an extraction, it doesn't numb anything. Just gets you high.
I've had both.
I prefer the nitrous. I was giddy and laughing during one procedure (2 impacted wisdom teeth). During another, just completely relaxed. I don't know why the PP said to get something stronger because that's not used to numb you. I had novicaine to numb me. I was totally fine and alert after a little while in a recovery room (maybe 30 min).
I was knocked out once and woke up hysterical crying for no reason. It was a strange experience and I didn't like it. I was also groggy the rest of the day.
Um, I get Nitrous to get my teeth cleaned! You just get a mask and breathe it in the entire time. Then about one minute after they turn off the gas and you have oxygen you are fine.
Good luck! I hate hate hate dental work.
And your sig is soooo cute!