I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

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I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Richard Kaufman » May 22nd, 2017, 10:55 am

See subject.
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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Jonathan Townsend » May 22nd, 2017, 11:17 am

not fun - watch out for infection in the area later on lost two that way. :(
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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Anthony Vinson » May 22nd, 2017, 11:19 am

Had one myself just last week - #14 molar. Pressure sensitivity lasted three days, but now it's all good and better than ever. Hang in there!

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Dustin Stinett » May 22nd, 2017, 1:55 pm

Is it safe?

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Postby Richard Kaufman » May 22nd, 2017, 2:06 pm

Yes, it's safe.
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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Brian Douglas » May 22nd, 2017, 2:09 pm

Two weeks ago, while in the Philippines, I had a molar removed. At the same time I had my teeth cleaned and 2 cavities filled. The fun started while the dentist was removing my molar and it broke (crown came off). He had to drill away part of my jaw bone get at the roots. Five hours later and a second round of Novocaine they finally got it done.

Though it took a long time it only cost me $200 for everything. Gotta love the Philippines.

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Bob Farmer » May 22nd, 2017, 2:16 pm

Dustin--I got it! MM

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Postby Richard Kaufman » May 22nd, 2017, 2:46 pm

Good for you, Bob! But it took a while. :)

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Bob Farmer » May 22nd, 2017, 4:55 pm

Things like a root canal:

1. Any 5-hand poker deal.

2. Any poker deal.

3. Multi-phase coins across routine.

4. Multi-phase coins across routine with poker deal kicker.

5. Any demonstration of a second deal.

6. Any demonstration of a second deal with kicker of multi-phase coins across routine.

7. Any discussion of who Erdnase wasn't.

8. Any list of things like a root canal.

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Postby MagicbyAlfred » May 22nd, 2017, 6:33 pm

Maybe this would be a good time to ask the dentist if he has any dental dam to spare - latex rubber only, of course.

The last root canal I had was by a by a highly skilled illustrious endodontist in San Francisco, and this lowly, not so illustrious magician talked him into a barter deal - the root canal in exchange for entertainment at the annual office Christmas party. And I later did the dental dam trick for him at the party with dental dam I asked him for on the day of the procedure. (True story).

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Ted M » May 22nd, 2017, 7:27 pm

Missed opportunity -- you could've recorded More Genii Speaks from the dentist's chair!

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Richard Kaufman » May 22nd, 2017, 8:43 pm

This specialist (all he does is root canals) uses blue dental dam. You can't use it for the trick because it leaves a bluish shadow over the coin.
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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby erdnasephile » May 22nd, 2017, 8:55 pm

Since Steve Martin is a magician, this seems somehow darkly appropriate:



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Postby MagicbyAlfred » May 22nd, 2017, 8:59 pm

Richard Kaufman wrote:This specialist (all he does is root canals) uses blue dental dam. You can't use it for the trick because it leaves a bluish shadow over the coin.

The best I've ever come across for making it look like the coin is realistically sitting on top was the kind of tannish color I originally got when I first bought the trick from Paul Diamond in Fort Liquordale once upon a long time ago. Hard to find now - seems like the green, blue and grey (grey being probably the best of those three) are the most prevalent. Gotta be latex rubber in any event; the synthetic Nitrile ain't worth a ____.

Erdnasephile, you really might want to consider changing dentists, LOL.

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Steve Mills » May 23rd, 2017, 7:32 am

Worse than yours - I had to change cable providers and deal with Comcast.
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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Leonard Hevia » May 23rd, 2017, 11:17 am

Had this done a year and a half ago. My rear upper right molar cracked and eventually broke in half. I was not aware of the crack but realized something went wrong when half the molar vanished while eating popcorn. Several bad decisions led to my eventual root canal:

1. I had tried to crack open a pistachio nut with my rear molars. Your teeth are NOT nutcrackers. Always use a tool to crack open nuts. This must have led to the hairline crack in the molar.

2. I waited too long to see a dentist when the molar disintegrated. I didn't have dental insurance at that time and had to wait 6 months to enroll at my job.

In addition to being a long drawn out painful procedure, root canals are very expensive. Mine cost $1,300 but luckily my dental insurance covered most of it. After the root canal I had a realistic ceramic crown installed over what was left of that molar. I had to pay $500 out of pocket for that crown. I miss that original molar, it had a nice sharp edge on one of the corners.

I recall the dental dam used in my procedure was the grey type.

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby brianarudolph » May 23rd, 2017, 8:42 pm

The Dalai Lama always refuses novocaine when he goes to the dentist.
He prefers to transcend dental medication.

(Hope you're feeling better, Richard ... that bad joke notwithstanding.)

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby MagicbyAlfred » May 24th, 2017, 12:01 am

I thought it was a good joke!

I recently went to see the Broadway production of "PUNS."

It was a play on words...

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Bill Mullins » May 24th, 2017, 10:24 am

There's a new documentary out about origami . . . .

It's on pay-per view.

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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Richard Kaufman » May 24th, 2017, 2:08 pm

Bill, I don't understand that joke.
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Re: I Just Had a Root Canal: How's YOUR Day Going?

Postby Bill Mullins » May 24th, 2017, 2:33 pm

Origami. It's on paper view.

It works better orally than when you read it.

(actually, I have seen a pretty good documentary on origami)


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