May 13, 2008
I am predisposed to hate dentists, but for a long time I gave my current dentist the benefit of the doubt and assumed that he was actually a decent dentist even thought I don’t like him. After yesterday, I’m pretty sure the he (Dr. Marc Purdy) is a bad dentist.
It was the fourth appointment of a root canal that was initially supposed to take one appointment, and he decided he hadn’t properly filled the root at the previous appointment, so he dug it all out and refilled it. He did this without any anesthetic, and it hurt. A LOT. He and his evil assistant didn’t seem to care that I was crying out in pain. Rather, he seemed pleased when he caused me pain. If you haven’t ever had a root canal before, here is a little bit of what it entails: they remove the root of your tooth, fill it with a material and then melt it to fill up the canal. This is all painless as long as you’re numbed up, but without novacaine, it feels like someone is trying to melt your brain.












