guys
the following incident is real , it is not fictitious or imaginary
this actually happened when I was practising as a Dentist in India
One day a Sardar patient walks into my clinic, he came with deep throbbing pain
after careful examination of his tooth, I recommended extraction as there was no way I could have saved that tooth, it was badly decayed and had no supporting structure left
so he was given a appointment for extraction
sardar showed up on time for the extraction, I gave him local anaesthesia
and made sure that the anaesthesia had acted around the tooth to be extracted
So I started with the extraction procedure and the moment I put the forcep in his mouth, he started screeming loudly much to my embarassment as there were other patients sitting in the waiting room and I didn't want them to get scared away
so I again tested the anaesthesia and it was fine
so I started this extraction again and the same thing happened, he started screeming loudly the moment i put the forcep inside his mouth
I was very confused as why he kept shouting
anaesthesia was working, so why he keeps shouting
so I asked him and he told me, that the tooth does not pain , it is your hand pulling my beard evertime you put the forcep in my mouth
ohhhhhhhh that was the reason
so I made sure i didn't touch his beard and finally managed to pull out his tooth
After that , I have always been extra-careful with Sardar Patients
2) there was this incident that happened in my dental college when I was a student
I was doing my clinicals in the Periodontology Department
So I was posted there for three months and every day we have to do the same thing, cleaning or scaling of teeth
Being a municipal hospital, the patients were usually uneducated ,
our supervisor wanted us to educate the patient on the importance of oral hygene and teach them the correct brushing techniques
so we use to sit with the patients after performing oral prophylaxis
I use to sit with a Dental Cast and a brush
One day I was treating a "Bhaiya"(it is a common term used for people coming from uttar pradesh in bombay)
I had a hard time removing all his tobacco and paan stains
finally after completing his scaling, I sat with him , I took a Dental cast and a tooth brush and spend twenty to thirty mins explaining him the correct brushing technique
he listened very carefully and with a lot of enthusiasm
So I was feeling very good , that I did a good job and helped somebody
I felt like I was contributing towards society etc etc
So I asked him if he had any questions
and guess what , he said he understood everything correctly but was just a little bit confused
and I said what was your confusion
and he replied
where should I buy the Dental cast so that I can clean it everyday
I almost fainted