I wish I could take it.

My long time regular dentist was doing a procedure on me about 15 years ago. She stopped and told me Gene I'm firing you as a patient.

Say what? She told me it was getting to the point where she could not control me in the dental chair and that I had no idea of such.

The Nitrous put me out, so to speak, but I kept writhing and moving around and trying to get of the chair.

I NEVER had any idea I was doing this sort of thing. None.

She said to me I'm sending you to a "special dentist".

I went to meet him first in his office just to talk and learn how he ran his practice and the type of patients he had.

Long story made short, I have to be put out first through an IV that he plugs into my hand. I forgot what he said, but I think it's a drug called Versed.

It costs $400 an hour, or $100.00 for 15 minutes. And it's not covered by dental insurance.

Turns out he was one of the earlier ones who became certified to do such, and he has a lot of patients who just have some sort of issue. He also does a LOT of kids and adults who are what we commonly call Special Needs people. He has what seems to be an infinite amount of patience and always calming and reassuring. The man is a saint.
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Never had it at the Dentist but with kind marked "For recreational use only".
It was the eighties.

Just make sure when you wake up that your underwear isn't on backwards.

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My dentist gives it to me at no cost every time I go. I can't stand them scraping in my mouth. I don't think it does a thing really. It does give me something to distract me by remembering to breathe through my nose . Last time I was there, I did notice a slight light headedness from the walk from the chair to pay the clerk.

When I got my wisdom teeth done they did a combination of local, laughing gas, and something else (or maybe higher dose of laughing gas?).

No pain whatsoever, barely conscious. Enough that I could hear talking and breaking sounds. At some point the surgeon was screaming at his assistant for something, no clue what he was saying.

After coming to I still had no pain from the novacaine. The following day I had some muscle pain in my checks/jaws and mild discomfort where they did guase packs. Pain got steadily worse for next 2-3 days, then ramped back down after the next 2-3 days.

I did end up twice having to go back and have slivers of bone or tooth removed. Once it was done under local due to cleaning under the gums. The second time I got a few puffs of gas and they pulled it out. The other bone fragments fell out on their own. The bone fragment (essentially splinters) was the worse part out of the whole thing.

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Originally posted by FishOn:
I went to a big Halloween party in the 80s at a dentist's house. He had a live jam band and a full size tank of medical grade nitrous and large balloons. Interesting party.

I went to a Halloween party once where one of the guys came costumed as a doctor. Had a box full of whippets and a bunch of balloons for treatment of whatever ailed you

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by FishOn:
I went to a big Halloween party in the 80s at a dentist's house. He had a live jam band and a full size tank of medical grade nitrous and large balloons. Interesting party.

I went to a Halloween party once where one of the guys came costumed as a doctor. Had a box full of whippets and a bunch of balloons for treatment of whatever ailed you

Some idiot brought that shit to one of our parties in college. After seeing some girl "fishing" on the dirty ass beer soaked floor in a white dress I kicked those dudes out. I don't give a shit what drugs you do until it puts me in a position of liability. Had she (or others) split their heads open on the concrete floor, I didn't want a police or process server showing up at my house.

Some of my guests said I was freaking out, I told them to follow the guys with the nitrous if they didn't like it.

Just remember, you will hear disturbing crunching noises while they are extracting.

It will be somewhat bizarre and seem disconnected from reality.

Good luck.

Everybody handles these things different as their bodies are different. Laughing gas doesn't make me laugh, but makes me very anxious.

Laughing gas is the bomb. It mellows you right out. It makes weed smokers look cranked up and anxious. The dentist could tell you in the middle of the procedure that he decided to pull every one of your teeth right out of your head and you wouldn't give a rat's ass.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Some idiot brought that shit to one of our parties in college. After seeing some girl "fishing" on the dirty ass beer soaked floor ...

As a1abdj notes: "Everybody handles these things [differently]..."

Out of the thirty or so guests at the party I attended, nobody ended-up "fishing" on the floor (first time I've heard that term), falling over, passing out, etc.

What happened, in my experience, is you'd get a quick buzz that lasted all of a few minutes.

As with anything else: Moderation is the key. Your body can't survive on pure nitrous oxide. (Dentists mix it with oxygen.) So, sure, if you inhale too much of it, for too long, you're probably not going to have an enjoyable experience.

What the "doc" at our party was doing was filling balloons from whippets. "Patients" would inhale from the balloon, thus limiting both time and quantity. IIRC, he was being careful not to let people over-imbibe.

Other than the fact nitrous results in a buzz: Not much different from playing with inhaling helium from a balloon to give yourself a cartoon voice.

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Laughing gas is the bomb. It mellows you right out. It makes weed smokers look cranked up and anxious.
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I really hope it has that effect on me.

After the procedure, I got the worst headache from it. Called the dentist and he said I probably didn’t get enough oxygen afterwards. Refused it after that experience.

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Originally posted by vulrath:
It's an absolute necessity for me (severe dental phobia stemming from a deranged pediatric dentist - let's just say that there wasn't anything explicitly stated in the sentence "raise your hand if you're in pain" about stopping to inject more local). In more than one situation it has been a godsend and the difference between agony and tolerable.



It never got me goofy, though I knew it was working. The most reaction I got was a slight "vibration" detected across my whole body then sorta melted into the chair. I could grit my teeth and be acutely aware of it for a few seconds before the sensation got tossed out and ignored by my brain. I definitely can see how it could make you feel that way at higher doses though.

For wisdom teeth I let them KO me with IV sedation. Nobody is coming at my gums with a scalpel while I'm awake and aware. But then mine were severely impacted (and in one case sitting in a cyst).

Did you go to the same dentist I did as a kid? To this day I fear Dentist's more than anything else!!

My wisdom teeth were extracted while I was in the Navy. I got a shot of localized painkiller and some ibuprofen afterwards. I wanted some laughing gas so bad while they wrestled those teeth out.

Back in the 70's my 7 year older brother, just out of college, somehow latched on to a bottle of it. When he and his friends had had their fill, my friends and I got the leftovers. It was a gas!

My wife had never tried it but once we got married and she started going to my dentist I told her to try it. Skeptical is an understatement but when she walked out she said "where has that been all my life". haha

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Originally posted by vulrath:
It's an absolute necessity for me (severe dental phobia stemming from a deranged pediatric dentist - let's just say that there wasn't anything explicitly stated in the sentence "raise your hand if you're in pain" about stopping to inject more local). In more than one situation it has been a godsend and the difference between agony and tolerable.



It never got me goofy, though I knew it was working. The most reaction I got was a slight "vibration" detected across my whole body then sorta melted into the chair. I could grit my teeth and be acutely aware of it for a few seconds before the sensation got tossed out and ignored by my brain. I definitely can see how it could make you feel that way at higher doses though.

For wisdom teeth I let them KO me with IV sedation. Nobody is coming at my gums with a scalpel while I'm awake and aware. But then mine were severely impacted (and in one case sitting in a cyst).

Did you go to the same dentist I did as a kid? To this day I fear Dentist's more than anything else!!

My acute pain management techniques were learned in the dentist's chair.

I saw that witch from age 6 to 14 (and since I had no enamel on my teeth I was there a LOT). I have Asperger's so it took me a long time to find my voice and speak up, and to learn that this was not normal. It's pretty fucked up what she did to me, and while I have forgiven I haven't forgotten. I hope that karma has found her and made her understand what she did to me and others.

I get nitrous because I have a very strong gag reflex and this weakens it to the point where the doc can work. You know what’s going on but don’t care. Sort of like Valium but no prescription required. Takes about 2 minutes for me to feel a tingling sensation in my finger tips. But it’s the only way to do a crown on the back teeth.