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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cignus_pfaccari" data-source="post: 1659603" data-attributes="member: 14557">How odd that more anesthesia wasn't applied.  My dentist is VERY good at doing that.  Apparently, having people scream and writhe on the chair is not the way she wants to do business.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One time, she was working on a front tooth, and the novocaine hadn't *quite* reached over there.  She puts two or three shots in near there, waits five minutes, still hasn't done anything.  Finally, she's like "Okay, do you have heart trouble?"  "Um, not that I know of."  She squirts something on the tooth that stings like the dickens and...then, I feel nothing at all.  I gave her a thumb's up, and we got back to work.The worst experience I had at the dentist didn't have anything to do with a root canal.  It had to do with the crown fitting.  The assistant kept hammering the crown onto the tooth-stump such that it hurt most of the rest of the day.  That actually wasn't that bad, really, and in a way it kind of helped; I didn't eat my lunch until about 4, and so when our friends were late for dinner, I wasn't hungry until they finally showed up about 10:30 that night.Brad</blockquote>