Dentists

[Keith Tindell]

Having just returned from the dentists, and found I need two fillings,Jesus, £145'got me thinking about my sea days. In seven years at sea I don't recall going to a dentist?, but what did happen if we needed one? , was it arranged through the ship? And was the fee deducted from our pay.I go for checkup every six months now, but I must have had a mouthful of bad teeth while at sea, or maybe just don't remember going, KT

[john sutton]

I had a problem when I was docked in Liverpool once and was sent to the dental college?.Finished up with one student holding me down and 2 pulling on the pliers.cant remember if I paid or they paid me(they should have).

You seem to have got off light for you 2 fillings I have spent thousands on the wifes teeth,my teeth and even the cats teeth.
I swear if I,m ever single again I,m going to find a woman with false teeth and save the money for another boat

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theres the story about man goes to the dentist and tell him to take all his teeth out although there was nothing wrong with them.
He explained to the dentist that it was to avoid national service as he had heard that they wouldn't take anyone with false teeth.
when he went for his exam for the army and he got to the end of the procedure they turned him down and to show his indignation he asked why.
He was told "you've got flat feet"

[gray_marian]

Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth,
And spotted the dangers beneath
All the toffees I chewed,
And the sweet sticky food.
Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.

I wish I’d been that much more willin’
When I had more tooth there than fillin’
To give up gobstoppers,
From respect to me choppers,
And to buy something else with me shillin’.

When I think of the lollies I licked
And the liquorice allsorts I picked,
Sherbet dabs, big and little,
All that hard peanut brittle,
My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My mother, she told me no end,
‘If you got a tooth, you got a friend.’
I was young then, and careless,
My toothbrush was hairless,
I never had much time to spend.

Oh I showed them the toothpaste all right,
I flashed it about late at night,
But up-and-down brushin’
And pokin’ and fussin’
Didn’t seem worth the time – I could bite!

If I’d known I was paving the way
To cavities, caps and decay,
The murder of fillin’s,
Injections and drillin’s,
I’d have thrown all me sherbet away.

So I lie in the old dentist’s chair,
And I gaze up his nose in despair,
And his drill it do whine
In these molars of mine.
‘Two amalgam,’ he’ll say, ‘for in there.’

How I laughed at my mother’s false teeth,
As they foamed in the waters beneath.
But now comes the reckonin’
It’s methey are beckonin’
Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.

By Pam Ayres

[cappy]

running down to oz frm panama got a bad tooth ...face all swollen...agony ....gave me m and b tabletsfor the swelling ..must say i felt like riving it out...on arrrival in sydney ...a car was waiting early morning as we got alongside and it was out at a dentists in a flash....probably the wost pain i remamber for too many days

[Frederick Lacey]

Am still lucky that I have got most of my own teeth except for 3 down one side.
had toothache in Melbourne in early 50s, was hoping for them to be filled but was
told that if I had them filled I would have to pay for the treatment myself, but if I
had them out the company could claim the money back from the NHS, so only earning
seven pounds a month had to have them out, can always remember the dentist, was on
his own but had about 7 nurses with 7 cubicles, he was moving from one to the other
like a production line, jab, jab, jab in turn then back down the line with the pliers, a
painful memory.

Fred. R525985.

[Richard Quartermaine]

In September 1947 I had joined the Raranga in Sydney and on the way to Durban I had painful toothache in the first molars on each side of my front teeth. In Durban I was sent to the dentist to have them out - no question of filling. Sitting in the dentist's chair the dentist in a thick Afrikaans accent asked me where I was from. when I told him as he went about extracting what were probably fairly sound teeth he told me about the havoc caused by a shipload of Australians that ran amok after they got ashore in Cape Town (after a long time on active service). I was mighty glad to get out of there. It must have been quite a sight though. When I got back on board I asked what happened and apparently they also turned the taps on the Castle Brewery's horse drawn beer wagon.
Not too sure of the facts but I would be interested to know.
Richard

[gray_marian]

#6, Fred you could have one implant to support a bridge attached onto a tooth which has been filed down to support the connection. Just depends on the health of jaw bone, price and whether you want to pay for work that may not be seen

[Frederick Lacey]

Hi Marian, thanks for that, but don't think I'll bother have been without them for
65 years, can crack a brazil nut on that side now, handy at Christmas when I can't
find the nut crackers. !!!!! Fred.

[Captain Kong]

I was in Mena al Ahmadi with a tooth ache, the Agent took me to a "dentist" in the desert,
I sat on a chair and then a big Arab behind me got me in a half nelson and held me while the other one pulled the tooth.
I preferred the tooth ache.
Just like the photo below. ................

I was in Durban on the Good Hope Castle in 1959, my mate Ted wanted to go to the dentist with tooth ache,
so he was having the day off. I told the Mate I had tooth ache as well , so he let me go. Then he said , when you come back I expect to see a gap in your teeth or a logging for being adrift.
So I had a perfectly good tooth taken out just to spend a day on the beach., How daft was that.?
Cheers
Brian.
see my dentist, below................

[David Bridgen]

Towards the end of 58 I was on Shaw Savill's "Athenic". A couple of hours before we were due to depart for our return to the U.K. I very quickly developed a toothache.

The agent arranged a visit to a dentist who removed the tooth as it was abscessed (no, I didn't know how to spell it either). Bit of a sod really. It was the right upper incisor.

Shortly after getting home I had a denture made. I was a smoker at the time and I found that if I removed the denture I could use the gap as a cigarette holder - which I did only after a few beers.

A few short years later (what a silly expression; short years), never mind .... a few short years later I lost its neighbour to another abscess (I didn't have to look it up this time).

That denture served me well for many decades. Then, recently, another toothache revealed a cavity larger than Wookey Hole in one of my upper port molars
It would have been impossible to affix another tooth to the denture. Or was that dentist speak for "I make more money by making a new one"?

After receiving the new three-pronged denture, the old one lay around on my desk for ages. I began to think of a more fitting way to part with it than simply heaving it out with the rubbish.

I flogged it on eBay

Got a bit more than 4 quid for it.

No, my dentist didn't believe me either.

Look at the first item on this page http://www.davidbridgen.com/odds.htm