Dental assistant here!! This stuff is called alginate (it’s made from seaweed- fun fact). It takes an average of 30 seconds to 1.5 minutes to set up. It’s used for so so many different procedures! Ask you dentist (assistant) if they can give you some topical anesthetic to rub around the back/roof of your mouth, then swallow, before they take your impressions. It makes the gagging sensation disappear ( if you breathe through your nose, too). Hope this takes someone’s anger away!
I threw up over the dentist and other staff members trying to hold me down while getting mine for braces. The vomit reached the window. The assistant said "things happen", but the look in her eyes said otherwise.
theWatsonX on January 4th, 2019 at 21:48 UTC »
I think it makes a mold of your teeth for various reasons
PoeFawkes on January 5th, 2019 at 00:52 UTC »
Dental assistant here!! This stuff is called alginate (it’s made from seaweed- fun fact). It takes an average of 30 seconds to 1.5 minutes to set up. It’s used for so so many different procedures! Ask you dentist (assistant) if they can give you some topical anesthetic to rub around the back/roof of your mouth, then swallow, before they take your impressions. It makes the gagging sensation disappear ( if you breathe through your nose, too). Hope this takes someone’s anger away!
notyourpalshane on January 5th, 2019 at 01:14 UTC »
I threw up over the dentist and other staff members trying to hold me down while getting mine for braces. The vomit reached the window. The assistant said "things happen", but the look in her eyes said otherwise.