Root canal treatment

[TimberWolf]

wuh wuh wuh rrrr, bluh bluh, with difficulty

Have you tried drinking a hot cup of tea yet?

[Mich the Tester]

Have you tried drinking a hot cup of tea yet?

eff off

[lukemg]

One of the rarely mentioned risks of contracting. Due to refusal to have time off for this kind of treatment, decay can reach an advanced stage requiring this type of approach.
I was literally shaking after a 45 minute session of this, with increasing amounts of anaesthetic being administered as he dug deeper 'have to get all the decay out you see, no choice'.
Not helped by the fact it was my brother doing the work...

[Mich the Tester]

One of the rarely mentioned risks of contracting. Due to refusal to have time off for this kind of treatment, decay can reach an advanced stage requiring this type of approach.

True. If I'd been earlier I could have avoided it. If only there were evening dentists who would do the job outside office hours for an extra charge.

[scooterscot]

have a wee whisky - stat

[Sysman]

Yep. Worse; due to a nasty combination of Calvinist stinginess and a mad protestant idea of pain bringing you closer to your imaginary god, many of them eschew the use of anaesthetics unless you demand them. This one, however, is quite happy to use anaesthetics of whatever nature I request, as I simply pay with a credit card at the desk and he cashes in a tulipload of money, obviously sticking a big margin on whatever he administers. Just as I would.

The only dentist I knew in NL was a colleague's father in law. He had a rather fine billiard table in his waiting room (and yes, the Dutch taxman had questioned that), which we played on most Friday evenings. It had heater under the slate, which made it very fast. After several months of playing Dutch billiards I could thrash most of the pool team in my local back in the UK.

He had a very fine wine cellar as well, and since his doctor had warned him to go easy on the stuff, he was most insistent that we didn't let it go to waste.