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When you’re given an injection by your dentist, roughly how long does he stick the needle in for? I ask cos I’m sure they take a lot longer nowadays than they did in my youth, yet I’d expect advances in technology (or whatever the apt term is here) to have made them quicker or even replaced them with something less unpleasant.
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Little story.
As medical students we did a part of our anesthesia training in the dental dept with the dental students doing their training. To make life more interesting, on occasions the dental student would give the anaesthesia and the medical student would take out the tooth.....all under supervision of course.
On this occasion the patient was a black man, built like a tank resembling Mike Tyson and I waited as the dental student gave me the OK to pull the tooth.
OK he is "under" you can go ahead now and with that a muffled voice with a Caribbean accent replied'
"No I am bloody not" got out of the chair and disappeared into the street.
As medical students we did a part of our anesthesia training in the dental dept with the dental students doing their training. To make life more interesting, on occasions the dental student would give the anaesthesia and the medical student would take out the tooth.....all under supervision of course.
On this occasion the patient was a black man, built like a tank resembling Mike Tyson and I waited as the dental student gave me the OK to pull the tooth.
OK he is "under" you can go ahead now and with that a muffled voice with a Caribbean accent replied'
"No I am bloody not" got out of the chair and disappeared into the street.
If you've never heard of the "Dental Wand", I highly recommend it - the only problem is, it's not available on the NHS.
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//// Pain is felt due to the pressure of the anaesthetic (when their dentist administers the anaesthetic too quickly or too slowly, or uses too much or too little). However, with the wand, the computer is programmed to precisely control the amount of anaesthetic administered, so you will be getting exactly how much you need at a steady and comfortable pace. ////
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Quote from the following link:
//// Pain is felt due to the pressure of the anaesthetic (when their dentist administers the anaesthetic too quickly or too slowly, or uses too much or too little). However, with the wand, the computer is programmed to precisely control the amount of anaesthetic administered, so you will be getting exactly how much you need at a steady and comfortable pace. ////
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I had several teeth out many decades ago and was given gas. Any smell of rubber minds me on the mask still.
As I was going under, any words or noises sounded like rapidly repeating echos.
About a month ago, I was watching a Japanese joiner on YouTube who was using a mallet and chisel to make a joint.
As he was tapping away, my head started to spin and it took me a while to twig it must have been the same frequency as the echos I heard when going under at the dentist's.
As I was going under, any words or noises sounded like rapidly repeating echos.
About a month ago, I was watching a Japanese joiner on YouTube who was using a mallet and chisel to make a joint.
As he was tapping away, my head started to spin and it took me a while to twig it must have been the same frequency as the echos I heard when going under at the dentist's.
some of the practices described in this thread are - - - quite old
dental students do NOT now give general anaesthetics
medical students dont now either ( patients complain)
no one has mentioned IDB - inferior dental block - fun thing, the only one I cd do when I was extracting teef in Egypt
syringes are a different design - LA cartridges, and used to have a hammer head to push the goo out, ( so you cdnt suck ( er aspirate in dental jargon) and later had a cork screwy bit which went into the plastic plunger ( so you could er 'aspirate') and make sure you were not in a vein. ( bad but not v bad)
Hey sqad, one of my colleagues managed to cannulate ( inadvertently that is!) a venous plexus and reverse the flow from the orbit, so pushed LA into the retinal veins. & unilateral er anopsia for 30mins. Prof of dentistry sorted that one out
dental students do NOT now give general anaesthetics
medical students dont now either ( patients complain)
no one has mentioned IDB - inferior dental block - fun thing, the only one I cd do when I was extracting teef in Egypt
syringes are a different design - LA cartridges, and used to have a hammer head to push the goo out, ( so you cdnt suck ( er aspirate in dental jargon) and later had a cork screwy bit which went into the plastic plunger ( so you could er 'aspirate') and make sure you were not in a vein. ( bad but not v bad)
Hey sqad, one of my colleagues managed to cannulate ( inadvertently that is!) a venous plexus and reverse the flow from the orbit, so pushed LA into the retinal veins. & unilateral er anopsia for 30mins. Prof of dentistry sorted that one out
// I was watching a Japanese joiner on YouTube who was using a mallet and chisel to make a joint.//
and you realised that he was a dental technician who used to give dental chair anaesthetics !
[ oh come on it is that sort of thread - hey we havent had voice tech of Boris trying to give an LA to the leddy of the opposition - now just open wide - - he would be referring to what Sqad quaintly calls " aorind the orifice of the jaw" ]
and you realised that he was a dental technician who used to give dental chair anaesthetics !
[ oh come on it is that sort of thread - hey we havent had voice tech of Boris trying to give an LA to the leddy of the opposition - now just open wide - - he would be referring to what Sqad quaintly calls " aorind the orifice of the jaw" ]
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