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| - TLDR: The most amazing place I have ever been to or dealt with. You can't possibly go wrong by going here. I'm pretty sure they saved my life.
I hadn't seen a dentist in 15 years after many painful traumatic experiences, as a child and a teenager, so my mouth was rough. I had 6 broken teeth, at least one of those with a terrible infection, and two cavities; just that I knew of. Enter Dr R. I was, to put it lightly, petrified, to see a dentist. We did the initial new patient appt on 11/20 and made a plan that I felt was not only achievable but affordable. Step one extraction of the 5 of the 6 broken teeth. On 12/13 I had those teeth "surgically extracted". I was beyond impressed from the minute I got there. I will explain. I took my prescribed relaxation pill before I went, when I got in the chair I put on the head set and chose spa sounds. I actually liked them. Preparing myself for the horror of a dental appointment, as I recall them. To my surprise there is now this miracle gel that exists where I no longer am tortured by the shots. I didn't feel anything at all getting the shots. Ok. I'm impressed but we'll see how it goes. Well I didn't get to see it and I'm not a looker of implements coming into my mouth, so I'm not sure exactly what was done but my teeth came out and the procedure was over. So, I honestly felt like I was in the chair 15-30 mins. I was confused at the end like "we're done?" Yeah, we were done. Spoiler alert: it went great. I felt no pain. I felt pressure, sure but trust me that is definitely not pain. I felt the sinus pressure that had been pounding in my head for years being relieved. It was conflicting bc I obviously didn't want to be having dental work done but it felt kind of good. I got to see the infection that was on one of my teeth and it was fascinating. I'll spare you the photos but I'm convinced that infection was going to kill me. Based on the clock in my car, the whole thing took an hour and a half from when I left my car to walk in, to when I got back in to go home. Recovery: after the anesthetic wore off I was actually fine. My right side was pain free and slightly tender the first 24 hrs then it's been like nothing ever happened there. My left side was the one with the bad infection I think, but it's definitely the one with the stitches though so it was tender for about 24 hrs but that tenderness didn't even start until hour 52. After that "hump" it's been great. The tenderness is gone and the stitches are pulling themselves out a little. The staff at the office has been ridiculously amazing with me; answering all 9,564 of my questions every single time I'd call. "Are you sure it's ok for me to swallow?" "What if I sneeze?" "If I eat soup and a noodle or something gets in the back, can it just rip out my stitches by accident while I'm eating?" They worked seamlessly with my insurance. I'm going back tomorrow, 12/20, for my follow up and I'm actually excited to go. I'm excited to have a plan. I'm excited to no longer have infected broken teeth in my mouth. I'm excited bc I have hope.
Side note: I've been living at like a 12 on that smiley face pain chart for like 10 yrs now so I'm not sure if I'm just desensitized to pain or not but this whole time, the procedure and the recovery, never reached above a 4 on the smiley face pain chart; and that 4 was only around day 3 of recovery. This whole thing has been a walk in the park compared to what I've been living with.
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