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Local anesthesia awash in mouth

  • 21-02-2016 11:19am
    #1
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    I had a recent experience in the dentist where the tooth remained sore while the dentist was working. She said the nerve had been exposed/damaged by the previous dentist.

    She tried to give me a couple more injections to help, but the last one she administered seemed to kind of sit/balloon in the gum and when she removed the syringe I felt that lots of it squirted out and remained in my mouth.

    Is this kind of thing normal?

    I suppose like a lot of people (anecdotally) I find it difficult to judge the dentist and it reminds me of a builder that would come into the house, suck in his breath through his teeth and say, 'jaysus, who built that?'


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  • #2
    Speedwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭Speedwell


    Well, "normal" is what is normal for you. I had my mouth done completely in the US at a prestigious university medical school after a few years of neglect due to not being able to afford the work (thanks, American medicine). I happen to have a nerve that is in an odd place and is difficult to anesthetize. My graduate dentist said he's seen far more difficult patients. And yes, it is possible to damage a nerve, and there's not much you can do about it. I don't think your experience necessarily means either dentist was actually incompetent; it would take a pattern of ineptness to show such a thing.


  • #3
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    Hi,
    She said the nerve had been exposed/damaged by the previous dentist.

    Dentists rarely do this.... Maybe the nerve was damaged/exposed because of the decay that warranted the dentist's intervention???
    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    She tried to give me a couple more injections to help, but the last one she administered seemed to kind of sit/balloon in the gum and when she removed the syringe I felt that lots of it squirted out and remained in my mouth.
    Is this kind of thing normal?

    This can happen, it does't taste nice but there is no harm in it....

    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    I suppose like a lot of people (anecdotally) I find it difficult to judge the dentist and it reminds me of a builder that would come into the house, suck in his breath through his teeth and say, 'jaysus, who built that?'

    Try to look at the dentist/surgery as a whole, if the experience has broadly been good and friends or family have got on well there then maybe this was just a tricky tooth- which happens to all of us.....


  • #4
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Yes it is normal for some local anaesthetic to be in the mouth with local anaesthetic (doesnt tast nice but there you go), it is also normal for the gum to balloon up with the local anaesthetic. Yes it is normal for an area to sometimes be harder than normal to get totally numb. Yes sometimes the nerve in a tooth can be inflamed from a previous deep decay leading to a deep filling.


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