"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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My docs just recommended higher dosage of Vitamin E because I have
degenerative eye disease in my right eye. Said it had something to do
with Age Related Eye Disease study or something.

Vitamin E does prevent vision loss. It kills you before your eyesight
fails.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:04:58 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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My docs just recommended higher dosage of Vitamin E because I have
degenerative eye disease in my right eye. Said it had something to do
with Age Related Eye Disease study or something.

Vitamin E does prevent vision loss. It kills you before your eyesight
fails.

Thanks for the good cheer.

Just out of curiosity, when you remove a tooth, do you tell your
patients it will only hurt until it stops hurting? :)

Later,

Tom

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:04:58 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in
message
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My docs just recommended higher dosage of Vitamin E because I have
degenerative eye disease in my right eye. Said it had something to do
with Age Related Eye Disease study or something.

Vitamin E does prevent vision loss. It kills you before your eyesight
fails.

Thanks for the good cheer.

Just out of curiosity, when you remove a tooth, do you tell your
patients it will only hurt until it stops hurting? :)

No. But I'll have to remember that one.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:04:52 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:04:58 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in
message
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My docs just recommended higher dosage of Vitamin E because I have
degenerative eye disease in my right eye. Said it had something to do
with Age Related Eye Disease study or something.

Vitamin E does prevent vision loss. It kills you before your eyesight
fails.

Thanks for the good cheer.

Just out of curiosity, when you remove a tooth, do you tell your
patients it will only hurt until it stops hurting? :)

No. But I'll have to remember that one.



A dentist story:

Once upon a time, the Veterans Administration was doing some
periodontal wok (cutting my gums back) on my mouth. This was the final
dental work the military was going to do for me.

The periodontist was just completing her residency (internship? - not
sure what it's called).

She worked on one quadrant of my mouth every month. I would sit in the
chair, she would sneak a needle behind my back, and then she'd say,
"This is going to sting just a little bit."

Just before the second round of cutting, after she lied about
"stinging" a little, I stopped her and said, "Let's be honest, this is
going to feel like an ice pick going through the roof of my mouth into
my brain. Why don't you just tell me the truth?"

Her reply was, "Colonel Herring, do you really think I'd have much of
a practice if I told all my patients that?" She did have a point.

At the third visit, she had a new assistant. When she was ready to
give me the shots she held the needle right in front of my eyes and
said, "Colonel, this is going to feel like an ice pick going right up
to your brain!"

We then both looked at her new assistant. He was wearing a mask, but
his eyeballs *were* damn near as big as saucers as he stood there in
shock. We all laughed until we had tears in our eyes.

Then she gave me the shots. ****!

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:04:52 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


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Just before the second round of cutting, after she lied about
"stinging" a little, I stopped her and said, "Let's be honest, this is
going to feel like an ice pick going through the roof of my mouth into
my brain. Why don't you just tell me the truth?"

Her reply was, "Colonel Herring, do you really think I'd have much of
a practice if I told all my patients that?" She did have a point.

snip


Most dentiists will rub a bit of banana flavoured stuff to surface freeze
where the needle pricks. Your people must have enjoyed watching you twitch.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:28:04 GMT, "Don White"
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:04:52 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


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Just before the second round of cutting, after she lied about
"stinging" a little, I stopped her and said, "Let's be honest, this is
going to feel like an ice pick going through the roof of my mouth into
my brain. Why don't you just tell me the truth?"

Her reply was, "Colonel Herring, do you really think I'd have much of
a practice if I told all my patients that?" She did have a point.

snip


Most dentiists will rub a bit of banana flavoured stuff to surface freeze
where the needle pricks. Your people must have enjoyed watching you twitch.


That stuff, Novocaine(?), just never did much for me. Maybe if I'd
drank a glassful, but they never offered enough.

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:28:04 GMT, "Don White"
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:04:52 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


snip
Just before the second round of cutting, after she lied about
"stinging" a little, I stopped her and said, "Let's be honest, this is
going to feel like an ice pick going through the roof of my mouth into
my brain. Why don't you just tell me the truth?"

Her reply was, "Colonel Herring, do you really think I'd have much of
a practice if I told all my patients that?" She did have a point.

snip


Most dentiists will rub a bit of banana flavoured stuff to surface freeze
where the needle pricks. Your people must have enjoyed watching you
twitch.


That stuff, Novocaine(?), just never did much for me. Maybe if I'd
drank a glassful, but they never offered enough.

The topical gel applied before the needle is benzocaine. It helps only a
little bit. The best way to ensure that a shot is painless is to inject
sloooooooooowly. However, there is almost no way to make those shots in
the palate painless. I almost never give 'em...but I don't do perio
surgery. There is a lidocaine transdermal patch that, if applied about 10
minutes before the palatal shot, works pretty well.

BTW--we don't use novocaine anymore. We use lidocaine, mepivacaine,
bupivacaine, articaine, or prilocaine. Articaine works better than any of
them...and bupivacaine lasts the longest.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message

Just out of curiosity, when you remove a tooth, do you tell your
patients it will only hurt until it stops hurting? :)

Later,

Tom


He tells his patients it'll stop hurting after they pay his exorbiant fees.