A New dentist in Oranjemund, known to Oranjemund
people who visited him also at Rosh Pinah . Now has a practice at Eastgate where Curtain City was - near
Air Namibia
Hope he is a good dentist and not like the one who did my teeth in oranjemund...do you all remember Dr Clements....he had hands like baseball gloves..he made me scared of dentists...have this phobia of them now...he ruined my life....
Dr Clements .. his wife remides me of Mrs Doubtfire from the movie .. she would never allow him to lift anything heavy , " his hands were the income " she said .. therefore one would see this strapping woman lugging suitcases packing the car etc .. also did most of the driving ..
another thing i remember about her . was the doctors and dentists got peugot 404 cars .. she would drive around town like a bat from hell ...
now to the Dr Clements .. he once did the injection into the apex of my jaw ( why into the apex ? Bertie ) .. accidentally brushed a major facial nerve .. I passed out on the dentist chair ... yup am scared to this day .. I sweat profusely during any dental procedure no matter how calm reassuring or gentle they are ...
@Sandy..I am exactly the same...get panic attack..hyper ventalate.....he hit a nerve with me awell and when i jumped and screamed he hit me and shouted....terrifying experience...
I remember his wife very well, my dad got rabbit from her......My Dad once told me when they packed the landrover when on route to luderitze and she did all the lifting..
@ Barbara.....my dentist was nice....remember the lovely smile you gave us when you arrived at Cape Town International. 202
Sorry guys I dont like this topic. I HATE DENTISTS. I prefer to be on the other side of the sharp stuff....
@ Sandy - I don't know about the "apex" of the jaw. The apex of a tooth is the tip of the root, though. He probably hit one of 2 cranial nerves - the trigeminal nerve, or facial nerve. Fortunately in the 16 years of practice I only had 1 patient who fainted. Quick calculation adds up to about 60 000 appointments later. So 1 faint not bad, I'd say.
Well you a very cool Herbal type doctor Bertie.....I'm happy oh so happy.
Must mail you again soon. weed weed
into the corner at the back of the jaw ... first did all the gummy injections to work on a tooth at the back then did the number into the corner of the jaw .. face was dead for a day ...
Ok Sandy, If it was for working in the bottom jaw, it was a "mandibular block" or "alveolar block". Then he simply shoved the needle in too quickly, or doesn't know his anatomy very well. If it was at the top, also too quick, or too high. Nowadays you simply shouldn't feel injections!
(Unless the dentist had a few too many the previous night and has an uncontrollable tremor!) yellocard : nono1:
Ouch !! catmusic
you have a nice dentist Diana, though i was still scared.