DENTIST.... :'(

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Today I had to go to the dentist to build up my molor for a crown.

FOR 5 HOURS!

But lucky for me I asked for laughing gas to make the Docter and my life much easier.

Thanks to the laughing gas I wasn't that scared but I still cried when they were doing the novicane and when they put pressure. And I didn't feel that relaxed like when I was younger. (I think, because, when I was younger I wasn't aware of what was going to happen to me. But now that i'm older and understand more and I'm told everything that is being done to me. I get more edgy.)

But another feeling I felt was embarrassment. I felt that I was too old to be on it or that the docters were making fun of me for being on it. Should I feel this way?

I have never had Laughing gas for that long amount of time. And toward the end I think the numbing stuff was starting to wear off and I could feel a little pain and it started to annoy me.

In the end I left confused and disorented and I didn't feel like talking to my dad and it made him mad that he had to pck me up.

In all I had a unique day. I wouldn't say bad because It was something diffirent. But I wouldn't have the expirience again that's for sure.

I don't know if I should ask for laughing gas again? They say the crowning part isn't too bad. But I don't want to make the docter nervus because this time around he seemed much more relaxed. I think because he didn't have to worry about me crieing every two seconds. hee hee hee. Which was true..

Any Advice For Next Time Around?

Don't use laughing gas.

I had a tooth pulled out last year and asked to be on laughing gas. They had to give me 5 times the recommended dose as I was apparently "fighting" it and trying to stay "awake". By the time the dentist got the tooth out, I was so drugged, that I had to be escorted in a wheel chair and was slipping in and out of conciousness for atleast 30 minutes after I left the dentist.

The laughing gas...is evil.

I wholeheartedly disagree. It's one of the best feelings in the world to be drugged on nitrous oxide. When they were drilling my teeth a few months ago and I was on laughing gas, I had a wonderful vision of talking to my friend Abel in a space station.

maybe they didn't give me that much? That's what it felt like to me. Cause I was still aware of what the hell was happen. My goal with the laughing gas was to be COMPLETLY Unaware! That's the reason why I opted for it! Damn Student Docters!

Ketamine is better

I just remember the last time I had my teeth pulled, he stuck a HUGE needle in my gums to numb me. Screw that, I would've rather felt the pain of him yanking my tooth out! It was horrible. I despise needles a grand deal. I'd rather just be knocked out. My wisdom teeth are coming in, too.

laughing gas works differently on different people, autistics especially tend to have issues with hyper or hypo sensitivity to drugs,it's not going to be the same experience,if it works,use it,if find it needs way much to have any affect at all it might be better trying IV sed. instead.


Laughing gas does not work on am at all,it's like breathing in pure oxygen,am have to have general anaesthetic instead as am require too much IV sed. for any effect. have read an old consent form from before am started to have GA,and it said am had 'respiritory depression' when using the needed dose of IV sed,sounds awful,never knew anything about that.


Don't put up with just gas if need something more,try something else instead,dad was prescribed some sort of sedative by the gp to take before one dentist appointment,but dentists also do IV sed. and also IV sed+gas.


Beau99,
do dentists use ketamine on patients?

When I was younger and I had something done to my teeth, I dont rmember hims sticking a needle in my gums. I have to go back to the dentist soon, and I dont want a damn needle in there. Sounds horrible.

He'll rub the area where he'll inject you with benzocaine, a numbing agent. You won't feel a thing.

Wow, five hours...that's intense! Congratulations on making it through. I'm not such a fan of laughing gas - it sort of hurts my nose. But hey, if you like the laughing gas, go for it next time too, huh?

Nitrous doesn't make you unaware of anything.

If you want to be completely unaware of it, go for the general anesthesia. It knocks you right out, you don't feel a damn thing at all, and time goes by very quickly.

i had the same thing done the day after you did. it only took an hour and i didn't ask for nitrous (and they never offered). i did take a lot of l-theanine before i went in. it's a violent procedure, and i had chunks of tooth on my shirt when it was over with. the shots in the gums for the local was the worst part.

i asked for nitrous instead of a general anesthetic when i was an inquisitive teenager getting my wisdom teeth out. i was enjoying it so much that i was huffing it and walking around in the holes on the acoustic tile, which were craters on the moon. they gave me the general anyway before the procedure started. since then i've never wanted nitrous at the dentist - the trauma of having a drill blast little bits of your tooth into the sides of your cheek can't be the best set and setting for enjoying walking on the moon.

when i had braces i had to have 4 teeth extracted. they injected medicine into the area around each tooth before pulling it. all i felt was the teeth being removed it didn't hurt me.
the injections were the most painful part of it.

as for the wisdom teeth i had a general as i had to have my jaw moved forward (bottom one) the surgeon did both of these at same time.