I’m about to give myself a root canal/filling. I have no dental training. But the pain is more than I can bare.

Ask me anything.

I’m scared guys.

  • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    joke answer: murica

    actual answer: extract lidocane from anal lube and then use it to numb the area, also practice on some pig jaws while using a mirror as you would for the real thing

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    3 months ago

    Good luck dude, I pulled my own tooth one time and it is not something I would like to do again

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    3 months ago

    If you’re not sure what the difference is between a root canal and a dental filling, I can’t imagine this possibly ending well.

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      3 months ago

      A root canal procedure requires the drilled cavity to be filled and then a surface filling after the abscess is drained. I think their wording is fine.

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        3 months ago

        You have to completely replace the root of the tooth in a root canal. It’d make more sense just to pull the tooth if you were doing it yourself.

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          3 months ago

          That’s not how root canals work. They drill through the top into the creamy nerve center and then clean out the nerve and replace that with some packing material. The root of the tooth is still there though. I completely agree that pulling would be the way better option however.

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            1 month ago

            creamy nerve center

            That made me so fucking uncomfortable jfc