How Can I Make the Novacaine Wear Off Faster?

[RitaZ.]

Lovely...

I'm foregoing meet the teacher night b/c I don't want to look like an idiot with swollen face and a droopy lip

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I have no advice to offer, but you can watch this and laugh a little... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqY6cJD3CE

Feel better soon!

 

[NYPDwife]

I have no advice to offer, but you can watch this and laugh a little... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqY6cJD3CE

Feel better soon!

OMG! I never saw that one! It was HYSTERICAL!!!!

 

[daisax]

Is there a trick to getting the numb feeling to go away?

Honestly? A new dentist. I remember that feeling of numbness/tingling for hours... 20 years ago. With my last 3 dentists (same practice), any residual novocaine effect goes away within a half hour of the end of the visit, and the big fat tongue/mumbling part is over before I leave the chair. When I commented on this once, the dentist said it was technique, and there are a lot of dentists overmedicating unnecessarily.

For what it's worth, I've had 3 fillings at a time as well as caps and other procedures lasting an hour or more, and I've never felt a touch of pain (i.e., it's not like they're UNDER medicating me and it wears off during the procedure). Once when a cap was taking longer than expected she did give me an extra shot, so I think it's a matter of having a skilled and conscientious dentist, and nothing more.