On 3/1/2020 4:12 AM,
liisabjork@gmail.com wrote:
I never had any anesthetic (novacaine) when I was going to get cavities filled growing up. I never understood why , because my mom just insisted no novacaine.
The pain was the absolute worst. I rather tear my acl than experience the pain of a drill affecting the nerve.(I've torn both acls completely already In The past.
I had my opinions on why my mom didn't allow for it. I have multiple opinions.
She grew up in Finland born in 1942. It was war time so maybe they didn't use it back then there in Finland?so maybe she just followed suit with us (her children without really thinking about it. (But if she ever had work done without it wouldn't you
think she rather us have it because of the down right pain? In the 80s.
I also think we never received it because we didn't have as lot of money.but she was very insistent of us having dentistry care all through out out child hood.checkups every 6 months.
I also think sometimes that she was punishing us for getting cavities that she had to pay for.so maybe we would take better care of our teeth after feeling the pain of drilling into teeth .
I feel she had a bit of a dark side toward things because I never was brought to the doctors for anything. Even broken bones. Colds . Severe sore throats.we had school physicals done by my aunt who was a cardiologist in Finland . When she would visit
or when we went over seas for the summer to visit family.
It's just idiotic not to give at least the option to a Child.It was never an option because she already made the choice for us.
I just need to read in the practice of novacaine during the time she was growing up so maybe I won't feel she was being indictive.
I commented on your reply because you provided some history on the practice of novacaine.
I can't speak to what practices existed in Finland when you were growing up. But I doubt very much that local anesthetic would have been withheld for operative dental treatment.
When I was a child dentists frequently did not routinely give local anesthetic. But I am not too much younger than your mom. Dentists in
my experience back then treated a far greater number of patients in a
day, and time was short. If you gave an injection, you then had to wait
for it to work. Unless a dentist was working multiple patients at the
same time, that was not practical.
Not using local anesthetic when it is needed often leads to substandard dentistry. That was the case for me. I'm sure I was moving around in
the chair as my dentist tried to work on me, and when I became a dentist
we got a good laugh looking at the shallow, irregular fillings my
dentist had placed. One by one, they fell out, and they needed
replacement. Needless to say, I received local anesthetic when that was
done.
Steve
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