# Toothache AND busted toilet! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 21, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930 "2025-06-21T13:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **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:** [June 21, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/1 "2025-06-21T13:28:54Z")
GODDAMMIT! My dentist screwed up my filling, and then went on vacation for a week. So, I can’t get the tooth fixed until Monday. AND I get get up this morning , and the toilet is busted. And I can’t get anybody to show up until afternoon. AND I GOT **ONE** TOILET!! ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/2 "2025-06-21T13:44:04Z")
I would try to cheer you up by saying it can only get better from here, but I don’t like to lie. Here’s hoping it does get better from here. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/3 "2025-06-21T13:45:52Z")
It did. Plumber in 45 minutes. Good-oh. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/4 "2025-06-21T14:56:35Z")
$469. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/5 "2025-06-21T15:01:09Z")
Sometimes the combinations life throws at us can be excruciatingly brutal. Hope everything works out for you. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/6 "2025-06-21T15:05:29Z")
“Bad things come in threes” signed: My ol’ Granny. Watch for another problem to raise its ugly head and good luck. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/7 "2025-06-21T16:05:54Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > My dentist screwed up my filling, and then went on vacation for a week. > [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > AND I get get up this morning , and the toilet is busted. You don’t have porcelain veneers, do you? Because that would be extra ironic. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/8 "2025-06-21T18:00:18Z")
You can get a temporary filling product at the drug store. It’s like a putty that fills the hole for a time. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/9 "2025-06-21T18:19:36Z")
I had months of dental work done after my facial reconstruction. My all-time best advice: Never leave the dental office after a big procedure without at least 2 emergency numbers. Big is relative. Big, to you is not the same as Big to me. I had a dentist out at 1:am once. I didn’t deal with pain very well, at that time. He had put a crown on one of my surviving teeth. It blew up in the middle of the night. He drilled a small hole. It drained. He packed it with something. It had to be re-done. Root canal added. He sent me flowers. ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/10 "2025-06-22T05:18:12Z")
I just (on 6/10) had all my wisdom teeth pulled at age 55. Somehow with no post surgery pain or swelling— the 4 days of broth & pudding were frustrating. A long story that starts around 1999 with a mis-filled tooth, the subsequent break, a poorly installed crown, a retiring dentist, and a move to Ecuador for several months. Then a 25 year delay in a follow up necessitated by a toothache. OP I wish you the most successful relief. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toothache-and-busted-toilet/1019930/11 "2025-06-22T13:35:04Z")
Bad teeth are a time bomb with a very unpredictable fuze and often miserable collateral damage after the initial blow-up. People who are forced by circumstances not to get proper dental maintenance are facing a bad outcome … eventually. People who simply neglect getting proper dental maintenance are causing themselves a bad outcome. Sucks either way, but the latter is self-defeating.