Impending dental surgery - advice needed?

I am a very VERY nervous patient - and after much prevaricating im about to undergo major surgery. Im being sedated and haveing 4 teeth extracted, plus 8 fillings (my fear stems from a horrible dentist i had as a child - this is my first full on appointment for a decade).





My dentist has been great, is really nice and talked me through everything. But does anyone have any advice from experience?





I am starting arnica tablets the day before the surgery to help with bruising. And as i am a nervous patient my dentist has agreed that i can take some rescue remedy drops before surgery. I have a ride home and hubby is taking time off work to look after me and keep me company.





Am i forgetting something?

Impending dental surgery - advice needed?
Wow, sounds like you have a great dentist. It sounds like you have all the bases covered and will do fine. I know that my youngest daughter like to have the dentist use the "gas" to help her relax, it takes the edge off.





You'll do fine. Dental surgery has come a long way and so has their tools.





Additional info. 11/13/07





I have not come across a dentist that still uses amalgam fillings any more. Listen to your dentist, they are Doctors and have had many years of training PLUS continuing training on all the latest techniques.





YOU WILL BE FINE!!!
Reply:you will be fine. i myself had to under go surgery 2 months ago. i had 13 teeth pulled out, all the teeth on the top. mind you it hurt like hell, but all wen twell. i was under the operation. i was scared out of my wits, but i worried for nothing because like i said everything went fine. u will be fine. good luck. hope this helps.
Reply:It shouldn't be too bad. January of this year I had 3 wisdom teeth extracted after about 3 weeks of having a horrible infection. I too was very nervous and that was my first full on dental visits in a long time. I had to go several times to see if the swelling had gone down enough to operate. I was sedated with nitrous oxide and another sedative through I.V. The surgery took about 3 hours but only felt like 2 minutes since I was knocked out. The pain wasn't too bad after the surgery because the numbness was still there but when that wore off the pain was pretty bad. All I can say is relax and trust your dentist to do what he or she has to do. After a while in the operating room while they are preping you, you might start to feel really nervous but just relax and it will all go away. There is really nothing to worry about, and according to my experience everything should turn out fine. Just don't eat anything 6 to 12 hours prior to the operation. Good luck!!
Reply:I was put out to have four teeth extracted also. My dentist said I tried to talk the whole time plus tears ran down my cheeks. I felt no pain. He put the IV in my wrist and had me start counting backwards. I think I said 2 numbers before I was out.The corners of my mouth were real sore when I woke up, and I was groggy for a few hours afterwards but everything went well. Yours will too. Good Luck!
Reply:Make sure your dentist is NOT going to use Amalgam fillings and that the teeth he is going to extract are for a Very, Very good reason. If the teeth you are going to have extracted are due to gum disease, wait, try something first before having that done. Most gum disease can be fixed relatively easily with a mixture of NEEM OIL and PINE BARK. You can reduce "pockets" from a height of 5 to 0 in about 2 months with this product.





Additionally, the Amalgam fillings are a major cause of infections in teeth and mercury poisoning of your body. The Amalgam fillings do not bond to your teeth; they fill a hole drilled by your dentist to be reverse-wedge shaped to hold it into your mouth. The interstitial space between the Amalgam and your tooth is where the liquid mercury (about 50% of the amalgam) leaches out over time. This is by design! The amount of mercury leaching out is in the form of mercury vapor that, when ingested, becomes mercuric ions that go to your brain and kill brain tissue. Go to: http://commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury/ and watch a short 5 minute video of how mercury causes brain degeneration like that found in Alzheimer's disease.





The correct filling material is made of "ceramic." Ceramic filling material has a hardness of 300, just like your natural tooth. It is very permanent and will not cause the infections that amalgams do. The dentists also use another white filling material that is very soft. This lasts for a while, but wears down quickly and the edges of the filling allow infections to happen as well. Insist on the "CERAMIC" filling material. If your dentist will not do this, change dentists.





You need to get ANY amalgam fillings out of your mouth if you have ANY. Be sure to not go to just any dentist to do this. It must be done properly or you will get mercury poisoning that can cause many health problems. A good bio-dentist is important to seek out that knows the proper procedure for this.





The Neem oil and Pine Bark products can be purchased from: www.healthline.cc (not .com) and it works like nothing you have ever seen. It will generally stop bleeding gums in one day and reduce the pockets in weeks, preventing most surgeries.





Be aware that ALL dentists working under the ADA (American Dental Association) are licensed and are directed by this agency to NOT tell you Amalgam fillings are bad for you. They are directed to give you a pamphlet made by the ADA to tell you Amalgam is O.K. They can only take your Amalgams out if you request it for one of 3 reasons. None of the reasons are that you just want to have them out because of the obvious problems they care causing your health to be affected negatively. It is simply amazing that this is the case. Your Dentist will have his license taken away if he tells you amalgams are bad for you.





good luck to you