Re: speaking of Western medicine...

Rob Wynne <doc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Pat Kight <kightp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Indeed, it is. I go in to the dentist in an hour two have the third and

>> fourth (out of a total of six) ****celain crowns installed; since all
the 
>> drilling and such has been done, I won't need to be numbed, but I will 
>> get nitrous, because it keeps me from levitating out of the chair from 
>> dental-phobic stress. As much as I hate going to the dentist, this is 
>> one bit of Western medicine I'm very grateful to have, because without 
>> it, I'd very likely be toothless.
>> 
>
> The last major procedure I had done, which involved fixing multiple
> cavities on the lower half of my mouth, I just went for the full
sedation,
> since my denist does that.
>
> Best.  Idea.  Ever.  I nearly slept through most of it.

When I had my wisdom teeth out, they put me completely under at the 
hospital.  Of course, they had grown in sideways within my jawbone, so 
there was a whole lot of evil excavation and reconstruction work 
involved.