Dental Injections

[Theblip]

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.

[ichkeria]

I had about five earlier and on one the syringe broke!
Surely the length depends on location, maybe also magnitude of dose

[Sqad]

The injection is to infiltrate local anaesthetic aorind the orifice of the jaw if lower teeth need to be anaesthetised or around the nerve endings if an upper tooth needs attention.

Injection time........less than a minute.....much less.

[burlyshirley]

I totally agree with you. Every time I have to have an injection at the dentist's I cringe, it seems to take forever and ever and is quite nasty in my opinion !

[Sqad]

burleyshirley........you can ask to have your tooth filled or removed or canal filled without local anaesthesia if you prefer......-;)

[burlyshirley]

Lol I'm avoiding the dentist like the plague these days Sqad ...

[nailit]

LOL @ Sqad^^

[nailit]

Injections/needles have never bothered me.
Probably why I have tattoos....

[nailit]

Never understood how we managed dental hygeine before anesthetics!

[Sqad]

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.

[Ellipsis]

LOL

[douglas9401]

You either had to man up, get drunk or live with it, nailit.

[burlyshirley]

I don't have a problem with needles at all, EXCEPT at the dentist's - absolutely dread them ! Mind you, I recall the days when the dentist used to put a mask over your face to knock you out, now that was scary ....

[nailit]

//Mind you, I recall the days when the dentist used to put a mask over your face to knock you out, now that was scary .... //

Ive got a very deep rooted memory of this happening to me as a youngster and it still scares the @@@@ out of me 50 yrs later,
when I'm reminded about it.

[nailit]

//You either had to man up, get drunk or live with it, nailit.//
Choice of 3 options eh?
Let me see...

[Gizmonster]

If you've never heard of the "Dental Wand", I highly recommend it - the only problem is, it's not available on the NHS.

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. ////

https://www.aperturedental.com.au/blog/does-the-dental-wand-hurt/#:~:text=The%20wand%20itself%20looks%20a,delivery%20of%20the%20remaining%20anaesthetic.

[THECORBYLOON]

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.

[Peter Pedant]

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

[Peter Pedant]

// 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" ]

[nailit]

PP,
Speak English for gods sake!
your're an intelligent guy.

[Peter Pedant]

amaurosis not anopsia sozza

retina is in the eye
teeth are in the mouth