I had my first serious dental operation yesterday, it was a devitalization, they needed to kill one of my teeth because it got infected. I was scared af before goijng there (you know, I was, until yesterday, very phobic of the dentist) I sat, they anesthesized half my mouth and proceeded with the operation. It lasted two almost uninterrupted hours, they put some kind of hooks, syringes and other stuff inside my tooth (and obviously they used the Drill) then they closed it all with some kind of molten wax. God, Allah, historic materialism or whoever rules this world bless whoever invented anesthesia, I can’t even imagine how much it would have hurt without it.

  • @frippa@lemmy.mlOP
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    51 year ago

    its a mix of both in my opinion, theres surely a component of buisnesses wanting to milk money out of people, but it aint fun to feel hooks, syringes, drills and other stuff operating inside of your mouth while you’re 100% concious. I had to drug myself with some valium before the operation to resist it.

    • Arsen6331 ☭
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      21 year ago

      Considering that I can’t tolerate even just a particularly chewy piece of meat in my mouth, that seems like it would be hell

      • @frippa@lemmy.mlOP
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        21 year ago

        Yes it wasn’t fun for sure, but u don’t feel anything in that part of the mouth anyway