What three year old needs four root canals? Dentist should be charged with murder.

[enlightenment]

48. Thank you for injecting some

common sense into this conversation.

Apocryphal story from my youth. At 16, I had four badly impacted wisdom teeth (small jaw, crowded even after four bicuspids were removed as a child).

The dentist gave me nitrous - but obviously neither he nor his assistant had a freaking clue what they were doing with it. I remember the point when the hallucinations started (the scalpel descending toward my face turned into a machete, for one . . .), but I don't remember having to be literally peeled off the wall of bookshelves I apparently attempted to climb in a bid for freedom. I took their word for it, because it was obvious from the tipped over chairs and instrument trays something happened, and my first coherent memory after the machete was sitting on the floor against a wall with an O2 mask on my face. The worst part was the decision (not mine!) to continue, using local anesthetic - far too much of that, too, not that it really helped cancel out the pain of having the teeth removed with a chisel and mallet.

Anesthesia delivery is not something a poorly trained person should do.