Well I went to the dentist at the beginning of last week for a cleaning. They found a cavity, and they need to redo two of my fillings so I'm going to go back in to get that done. However after they poked and scrapped around my teeth and gums that day, I developed an infection around my back lower wisdom tooth. At first I thought it was a mouth sore because I do get those often, but the pain steadily increased. Then it got really fucking bad. Eventually I started really looking in my mouth for it and couldn't really see any sores, but there was a little bit of swelling. An abscess formed but it wasn't really that big, but my god... the pain. I was able to get a hold of my dentist and got some antibiotics and stronger pain medicine, but I still had to deal with the pain for another day or so until the medicine kicked in. Eating and drinking became my most feared activities of the day. I had to concentrate and chew on one side of my mouth, any mistake felt like someone slicing a razor blade into my gums, too much or too fast swallowing lead to the same result, the pain would cause me to sweat. Saturday totally sucked since the antibiotics nearly made me pass out from drowsiness, and it was a 9 hour shift because of fall back, but we were still supposed to clock out early that day but our supervisor said otherwise. I found out everybody got an extra hour of unauthorized overtime because of this, so she is going to get her ass chewed out. Anyway, last night proved to be more tolerable, the pain is starting to alleviate and should totally be gone after another day. So... morale of the story, don't go to the dentist, they are professional sadists.
For real though, if you plan to go to the dentist, it's probably a good idea to do some sort of extra cleaning to your teeth, like flossing and more gum care attention. Otherwise, prepare for the brutality of their instruments of pain.
