Hello, I live in the UK. I just had a molar extracted by an NHS dentist.
In my area, these are quite rare these days. Most dentists do not offer much "on the NHS" so the choice is between waiting many months for a cheaper treatment on the NHS or paying far more for "private treatment".
Anyway, I wanted to see if my experience is normal or not. This is my first extraction as an adult (I'm 64). Upper molar, the filling had dropped, somehoe I split the tooth and the filling fell out. One week later they took it out. It cost £73.50.
The first injection was insufficient. When she started work and it was very painful, so she injected a lot more. That second injection also hurt a great deal.
Afterwards my left eye felt strange and twitched and I found later that I could no longer flare my nostrils.
I didn't know that was a thing I did, but when it went away it was very noticeable. These symptoms lasted a day. Is that normal?
I don't know how they extract teeth, but there was a lot of repetitive sideways pressure and after maybe 20 cycles of the, the took came out, or rather broke off.
How do they do it - is it just pliers and brute force?
What I was shown, was the part of the tooth above the gum line - no visible root at all.
She said I would need another appointment to get the root parts out "somewhere that has the right equipment". Is that normal?
It's the next day now, and the pain is beginning to subside. The blood clot is behaving itself.
Now I'm dreading the next appointment. They will presumably have to cut open the guml have just healed, and put me back in pain, and after that experience, I'm really dreading it.
Maybe it would be worth paying 4 times as much for that work privately?
Thanks for any thoughts you can offer.
Chris
In my area, these are quite rare these days. Most dentists do not offer much "on the NHS" so the choice is between waiting many months for a cheaper treatment on the NHS or paying far more for "private treatment".
Anyway, I wanted to see if my experience is normal or not. This is my first extraction as an adult (I'm 64). Upper molar, the filling had dropped, somehoe I split the tooth and the filling fell out. One week later they took it out. It cost £73.50.
The first injection was insufficient. When she started work and it was very painful, so she injected a lot more. That second injection also hurt a great deal.
Afterwards my left eye felt strange and twitched and I found later that I could no longer flare my nostrils.
I didn't know that was a thing I did, but when it went away it was very noticeable. These symptoms lasted a day. Is that normal?
I don't know how they extract teeth, but there was a lot of repetitive sideways pressure and after maybe 20 cycles of the, the took came out, or rather broke off.
How do they do it - is it just pliers and brute force?
What I was shown, was the part of the tooth above the gum line - no visible root at all.
She said I would need another appointment to get the root parts out "somewhere that has the right equipment". Is that normal?
It's the next day now, and the pain is beginning to subside. The blood clot is behaving itself.
Now I'm dreading the next appointment. They will presumably have to cut open the guml have just healed, and put me back in pain, and after that experience, I'm really dreading it.
Maybe it would be worth paying 4 times as much for that work privately?
Thanks for any thoughts you can offer.
Chris