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Retlaw · 25-01-2016, 18:34

[QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1159273]I also had a phobia of dentists...I didn't visit the dentists for more than 40 years.
I filed down broken teeth with a diamond file rather than go and be seen.
Margaret, you not the only one wth a phobia of dentists, but mine was more of a hatred of them, I can still remember back in the 1930's and that torture camp in Cannon St. We had to go there wether we liked it of not, sit in a big staight backed chair with a head clamp, he had a drill that he worked with his foot, he also had a gadjet that held you gob open, you could neither swallow or do anything,and if you started crying you got a back hander.
As I was growing up I pulled my own teeth with pliers, it was painfull some times, but owt was better than going to a dentist, then in my 70's the doctor looked in my gob, and ordered me to the dentist, she was a nice young lady in Warner St, who said she couldn't do more than take a mouth cast, and it woud be horsepital. I went and said I wanted to be treated as if I was royalty, no pain no fuss. He grinned and said Ok, when I woke up from the anasthetic, I had been treated like Royalty, the Queens farrier was stood there, e were built like a brick toilet, leather apron, giant pair of pliers, the lot.
Then I was told to see the dentist in 3 weeks, she sat me down, looked in my gob, shook her head took a picture and said youve got a new tooth growing, it was coming out of the roof of my mouth, she said it must have been there all my life, had to wait till it was big enough to be pulled, then on the magic day out it came, she got the original cast, but it no longer fit, she said my tongue had swelled and taken up the space, I've had to, put up with no teeth ever since, now its a ******, some things I liked I can no longr eat, I used to love raw carrots, and peanuts, gone for ever. I only hope that sod of a school dentist died a horrible death.

25-01-2016, 18:34	#20
Retlaw I am Banned Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington. Posts: 4,627 Liked: 601 times Rep Power: 0	Re: Toothache [QUOTE=Margaret Pilkington;1159273]I also had a phobia of dentists...I didn't visit the dentists for more than 40 years. I filed down broken teeth with a diamond file rather than go and be seen. Margaret, you not the only one wth a phobia of dentists, but mine was more of a hatred of them, I can still remember back in the 1930's and that torture camp in Cannon St. We had to go there wether we liked it of not, sit in a big staight backed chair with a head clamp, he had a drill that he worked with his foot, he also had a gadjet that held you gob open, you could neither swallow or do anything,and if you started crying you got a back hander. As I was growing up I pulled my own teeth with pliers, it was painfull some times, but owt was better than going to a dentist, then in my 70's the doctor looked in my gob, and ordered me to the dentist, she was a nice young lady in Warner St, who said she couldn't do more than take a mouth cast, and it woud be horsepital. I went and said I wanted to be treated as if I was royalty, no pain no fuss. He grinned and said Ok, when I woke up from the anasthetic, I had been treated like Royalty, the Queens farrier was stood there, e were built like a brick toilet, leather apron, giant pair of pliers, the lot. Then I was told to see the dentist in 3 weeks, she sat me down, looked in my gob, shook her head took a picture and said youve got a new tooth growing, it was coming out of the roof of my mouth, she said it must have been there all my life, had to wait till it was big enough to be pulled, then on the magic day out it came, she got the original cast, but it no longer fit, she said my tongue had swelled and taken up the space, I've had to, put up with no teeth ever since, now its a ******, some things I liked I can no longr eat, I used to love raw carrots, and peanuts, gone for ever. I only hope that sod of a school dentist died a horrible death.