# Bosda Gets Electric Shocks Through His Teeth, To No Good Purpose. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304 "2005-02-04T02:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/1 "2005-02-04T02:41:00Z")
So, my dentist of 17 years says–“You need root canal”. He does nothing, but I get charged. I go to the endodontist. He picks at my teeth with picks, & uses an **electric shock gizmo** on my teeth to see if the nerves are alive. Here’s a hint– **THEY ARE!!!** :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: And wonder of wonders–I _don’t_ need root canal. But in a _different tooth_, I have decay. He does nothing, but I get charged. So, it’s _back to the dentist!_ Also, the endodontist has a creepy Clown Portait in his office bathroom. Turned around after taking a leak & scared the mucus outta myself! Why can’t we have serrated beak-like structures, like snapping turtles? :mad: 😕 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/2 "2005-02-04T03:00:58Z")
Do what I did, take out all your teeth. Teeth are for gay people, that’s why fairies come and get them. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/3 "2005-02-04T03:04:51Z")
You know you’re a grown-up when you are on a first name basis with your dentist. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/4 "2005-02-04T03:08:27Z")
Damn, I thought you were going to tell us about some crazy scheme you had to find back your bookmark file! Poor **Bosda** , that sounds _very_ unpleasant. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/5 "2005-02-04T03:18:42Z")
Actually, Bosda, I think you should ask your Dentist about giving you a substantial discount for the misdiagnosis. He did, after all, make you waste money getting tested. And, I may be mistaken, but what kind of Dentist can’t test to see if the damned tooth is alive? I though every one of them could do that? ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/6 "2005-02-04T04:35:40Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > You know you’re a grown-up when you are on a first name basis with your dentist. But I’ve been on a first name basis with mine ever since I could say “Dad.” ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/7 "2005-02-04T04:48:06Z")
> [@xgxlx](#): > > But I’ve been on a first name basis with mine ever since I could say “Dad.” So your father’s first name is actually “Dad”? I bet there was a lot of pressure for him to get married and have kids growing up. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/8 "2005-02-04T05:03:06Z")
It could have been worse. You could have needed the root canal, and had it done. You could have been lying in the chair, trying not to think about what was going on in your heavily Novocained mouth. You could have listened to the drill whirr, smelled the smoke of vaporizing enamel, tried not to think about the dentist drilling into and extracting nerve tissue, been glad you were Novocained to the gills. The dentist could have drilled past the anesthetized area into live – and I do mean live – nerve tissue. The dentist could have scraped himself off the ceiling and hauled you back into the chair, picked up another hypodermic of Novocain, and informed you that he had to shoot more into you. Into the center of the molar. Into the quivering live nerve. Have another root canal? No, thank you, just pull that sucker, please. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/9 "2005-02-04T05:45:33Z")
Question for you **Bosda**. Is it safe? ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/10 "2005-02-04T12:21:40Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Question for you **Bosda**. > > Is it safe? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/11 "2005-02-04T14:05:55Z")
Poor **Bosda**. I haven’t been to see a dentist in 17 years. Surprise of surprises when my much neglected tooth crumbles under the extreme pressure of a raw mushroom. So I go to the dentist. I need a root canal. No, wait, not enough tooth left. I need a root extension. No, wait, I need a cleaning, then an extraction and bone graft. (This is 4 visits right there.) So I get the extraction. Now let’s think about this – what sort of money would you pay to go to a hooker specializing in S&M? For her to put you in pain and humiliation for an hour? Couple hundred bucks, maybe? Or maybe you think you should be the one getting paid, right? Wrong. $500. For an hour’s work. And the priviledge of standing in line at CVS for another hour behind some Russian old man who doesn’t understand why he has no refills on 36 of his 102 prescriptions he’s trying to fill, but meanwhile you’re standing there drinking your own blood through the numbness that will wear off soon if you can only get your pain pills once that old Russian guy sweet talks the pharmacist into filling non-existant prescriptions but in the meantime you’e wearing Dracula’s own lipstck because Mistress Tourquamada stabbed you repeatedly in the gums with a rusty ice pick. And then it’s back to Dr. Mengela’s lab the next week, where they make you bleed some more, then decide to “take pictures.” Do not believe this lie, folks. They make it sound as if you’re the New Elle McPherson doing an ad for designer French clothes. Bullshit. It’s a game of “Let’s stuff cardboard down your throat, try not to puke as we nuke your head repeatedly.” And guess what? In a month and a half I get to pay them another $1300! Yea! Do you think if pay them and extra $2000 they might scoop out on of my eyeballs with a grapefruit spoon? 'Cause that would be keen! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/12 "2005-02-04T16:13:28Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Question for you **Bosda**. > > Is it safe? Safer than _what_ ? ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/13 "2005-02-04T17:10:51Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Safer than _what_ ? Safer than watching a young Dustin Hoffman’s dental exam in “Marathon Man”. ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/14 "2005-02-05T04:38:33Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > The dentist could have scraped himself off the ceiling and hauled you back into the chair, picked up another hypodermic of Novocain, and informed you that he had to shoot more into you. > > Into the center of the molar. > > Into the quivering live nerve. Lucky. When that happened to me the dentist just kept drilling and yelling at me for crying. Of course, this was after four or so shots of Novocain in the regular place with no numbing effect on the nerve. Maybe they decided they couldn’t safely inject more, but still… _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-gets-electric-shocks-through-his-teeth-to-no-good-purpose/288304/15 "2005-02-05T14:11:08Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > It could have been worse. > > You could have needed the root canal, and had it done. > > You could have been lying in the chair, trying not to think about what was going on in your heavily Novocained mouth. > > You could have listened to the drill whirr, smelled the smoke of vaporizing enamel, tried not to think about the dentist drilling into and extracting nerve tissue, been glad you were Novocained to the gills. > > The dentist could have drilled past the anesthetized area into live – and I do mean live – nerve tissue. > > The dentist could have scraped himself off the ceiling and hauled you back into the chair, picked up another hypodermic of Novocain, and informed you that he had to shoot more into you. > > Into the center of the molar. > > Into the quivering live nerve. > Have another root canal? No, thank you, just pull that sucker, please. :eek: :eek: