I had to bring my 8 year old daughter to the dentist and they pulled an infected baby tooth. Novocaine does not do anything to me and I have always suffered through it at the dentist even when they cut out my wisdom teeth. Unfortunately my daughter must be the same way. They were pulling and twisting that tooth and I could tell she could feel the whole thing. I told them I wanted them to give her some gas so she wouldnt suffer as much and they told me she couldnt feel it, that is the same thing I was always told but I did. Finally they did give her some gas but I could tell (she squeezed the HELL out of my hand when they were working on her) she was really suffering. They finally pulled it out, but it was really tough on her. Anyone else have this same affect with novocaine?
Sorry to hear that, no child deserves to have painful experiences such as yours, but keep an eye on that infection, its very close to some important parts of her anatomy. Get her some ice cream and a new puppy, she will love the ice cream and you get a new hunting dog. Win Win!
You took it better than I would have. I would have made sure they stopped what they were doing. I can take just about anything except for seeing one of my sons in pain. Physically or emotionally.
I have the same issues. I can tell you, I hate the dentist. I have never had a trip where I wasn't in pain. I've told them I feel pain, and they always assured me I could just feel the vibration of the drill. When I was a child, I actually clammed up and wouldn't let the dentist in my mouth at all. Did I mention how much I hate the dentist!
I would have cried like a little ***** if that ever happened to me. I'm a wimp when it comes to pain in my mouth.
Many moons ago, I was a chairside assistant at a dentist office. It was a HMO/PPO office so the dentists got paid next to nothing to see/treat pts. So, they ran people in and out like cattle in order to do enough volume to make money. Anyhow, these were also fresh out of school dentists. It was my job to hand over tools, suck out slobber, and pick debris out of the pts mouth while the dentist pulled teeth, drilled and whatnot. I can remember many a poor sap who would wince and complain of pain after being injected with lidocaine/octocaine. (when they'd complain it sounded like 'aaawgaraaaghggguh!') The dentist would softly but comandingly say "You feel pressure, not pain." And the pt, under the strong influence of persuasion and being rather helpless would just lay there and take it. The dentist did believe that her patients were just reacting to pressure... and so did I. Until, the dentist offered to pull one of my wisdom teeth for free. I'd just have to prepare my own tray and clean up after myself... and the top dentist(owner) was to watch her pull the tooth and evaluate her performance. So she injects the pain killer, waits a moment and begins working on the wisdom tooth. (using something that looks and operates like a flat screwdriver/prybar cross.) I immediately wince and mumble "'aaawgaraaaghggguh!". She replies with her pressure not pain response.. but since I'm a pain in the arse... I retorted... "That sure feels like pain to me." The head dentist observes, "Look at her lips... She's able to articulate, so she's not numbed." The dentist working on me pokes my lip with the pick. "Ow" I respond. She looked surprised and injects the rest of the vial into my mouth. A few minutes go by. No numbness in my mouth. She ended up injecting me three more times. Using 2.5 vials of lidocaine before she found my nerve and got the desired effect. She ended up going for the bigger portion of the nerve. The problem wasn't the lidocaine, but my nerve location and her inability to recognize if she had hit it or not. From that point forward she was much more careful to check on successful nerve block. I feel bad for all those folks we did root canals and pulled teeth on before that. So.... don't sit back and take the pain. Tell the dentist you're in real pain. Make them do a dental block. You'll know when they hit the nerve because it hurts like a mother... but you'll be blissfully numb after that.
She sounds tough! My whole childhood I was never offered novocaine when my dentist drilled the couple cavities I had. I never thought twice about it. When I was about 12 my dentist was gone for medical reasons and the "new" dentist that took on my dentists patients offered me novocaine for a cavity. I remember I said to him "I never get offered novocaine from my dentist" He grabbed the needle and asked me my favorite type of music as he put some headphones on my ears. It was great! For the first time I felt nothing I also heard nothing. My dentist is long gone but if he was still alive I would need to ask him why no novocaine?
