We tend to call then cavities. The dentist calls them dental carries. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_caries
No chocolate! No Coffee! No sucking through straws! Get ice on your cheek before it hurts. Have plenty of Neutrament or similar **broken link removed** on hand.
My first 4 extractions occurred in a hospital under general anesthesia. 2.5 days. some 40+ years ago to make room for braces. They were bicuspids and one came in the roof of the mouth. Then the tooth next to one of the extractions decayed from the inside out. It was root canaled and then extracted. The bridge failed 2x. so a grade school classmate recommended an implant. A different process back in the mid 90's. It was a comedy of errors. Site gets infected. Antibiotics prior, opened up, irrigated, antibiotics after. The way they did it ten was to drill and screw in the abutment, cover it completely and let it heal for 6 months. Then they open it again and insert a screw that protrudes through the gum called a "healing screw". Then I went to see my classmate that was going to do the restoration and the gum grew over the screw. Now, the same 3 month process again thid time the oral surgeon changed the size tool needed. Then the tool was too short and the crown had to go back about 2x. Dentist forgot to check side to side clearance, SO 6 MONTH OF TEETH SHIFTING.
Then I had a mess of dental problems a few years ago and I now have a new "replacement" periodontist because of the dental problems. My old periodontist retired and the new one's staff kept breaking teeth, so he's history.
They (periodontists, oral surgeons) now extract and place and either fill with cadaver bone or your bone (bone graft). I had both, The extract and place failed and had to be done the hard way. The hole was filed in with cadaver bone and then left to heal. then re-drilled. Healing screw is integral but later is made larger. Then I had another done in a two step process. Extract, bone graft, heal, drill, insert, heal, then larger healing screw and restoration. Two are removable, one is cemented onto the abutment. #3 came loose and I had laser gum surgery to remove some tissue. Some of those procedures were done using Nitrous Oxide. Your awake, but more relaxed.
I saw an orthodontist (teeth straightener) when I was 6 years old.
Then there was tonsils removed in the hospital using ether that you breathed through a screen. Had a few cryosurgery wart removals and recently (days ago) cryosurgery to remove a pre-cancerous skin growth. In two weeks, it should fall off. In 4 weeks, I'll know if I need the scalpel. I had an arm set when I was six. Both bones came out of the socket. The saw is weird
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlik...when_getting_a_cast_cut_off_how_does_the_saw/ I had the cast for 6 months.
Something called "crown lengthening", a.k.a. Jaw bone lowering surgery is probably the most painful after the #1 procedure of a root canal or (4 of them in one tooth).
They open the gum and take some jaw bone off and close it back up. Talk about aching.
Fezder, Good luck. It starts to hurt in about 6 hours. Take pain meds prior to the pain starting and so to with the ice. nearly immediately.