Name: Nick Returns from the Dentist | The Adam Friedland Show
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Nick Returns from the Dentist | The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-15. Transcript available.

Nick, you seeing anyone?
Yeah, periodontist.
A periodontist?
Yeah, Nick just had a surgery.
Welcome back to the podcast, Nick.
He's been gone last week.
What was the surgery?
You had a gum graft?
I had a gum graft.
You had a gum graft?
Yeah.
From where did they take it?
I think it was on top of your mouth.
You know what?
When I went skateboarding when I was a kid, I thought this would be my thing.
I don't know why.
You know, I never did sports, but I thought, well, I'm kind of good at balance.
I right away flew off of it.
I gashed my whole face.
I was gushing blood.
I came home.
My mother didn't kiss at bed.
She said, look what you did.
Yeah.
Look what you did.
How could you do this?
She said, you're going to need skin grafts.
We were in the cab on the way to the hospital.
She said, they're going to shave off your thigh and stick it on your face.
I think she was talking about sex change.
It was an ointment.
I was good as new a week later.
Yeah.
Did you say yours failed?
It did fail, yeah.
I was pretty disappointed.
I was kind of devastated.
Does the periodontist give you money back for that, or what did he say?
No, I think they just said see you in two weeks, I guess for like an additional
follow-up.
But they have to take a pretty big chunk out of like from your other gums, and
now this
tooth hurts and it feels loose.
So I don't know.
And he's not going to give you money back for that?
This is malpractice.
It's not necessarily malpractice.
Malpractice has to be outside the standard of care.
You would have a point.
I mean, there was a lack of informed consent because I was just told, oh, this
needs to
be covered.
I wasn't...
They didn't tell me.
It only works like 90% of the time.
You know that dentistry...
Did you see this new documentary about the muse?
Those alt dentists?
Dentistry is like such a scam.
It's actually like not scientific.
Well, a periodontist is a surgeon, but a dentist is...
I don't consider that to be a doctor.
It's a...
If you have additional dental school you go to, a periodontist deals with the
bones and
the gum.
A dentist is just teeth.
Now, my question with the...
So now it failed.
They have to take another chunk?
I don't know.
I got to wait two weeks.
I got to put it...
Honestly, it was like...
It was pretty...
I was in despair when they told me that because I tried to do everything right.
I was being...
Right.
I have teeth problems.
I have like a complex where there's been times in my life where I try to do
something
right and by trying to like try my best, I really need something to work, I end
up like
it makes it worse.
Well, that's like my new shoe.
Gabby hates when I bring this up, but that's my new shoe theory.
When you get new shoes, let's say when you were a kid and you don't want to scuff
them,
you have your shoes for the year or whatever, first day you fuck them up.
But then you never fuck them up again.
But it's because you're thinking so much.
Don't fuck them up.
Don't fuck them up.
Don't fuck them up.
Well, anyways.
Yeah, it didn't work.
So I was pretty distraught.
And then he could see that.
And so he said, well, like, he's like, you know, whatever needs to be done, we
can go in
and we won't charge you.
But he said we have to wait two weeks to see like what, you know, how it heals.
Yeah, and you can't get...
Now you're going to have a gash somewhere up here that doesn't have gum.
There's a big chunk missing from the top of my mouth.
And that won't ever come back?
No, I don't think gums grow.
They don't...
If they recede, they don't grow.
That's why you need a gum graft.
But the reason that happens is because it's like gum tissue needs an underlying
bone structure
to attach to because it receives like blood supply through the bone and stuff
like that.
So when you have bone loss from periodontal disease, then the gums just have
nothing to
attach to.
So you have periodontal disease.
I mean, yeah.
They say that you can't cure it.
It can be stabilized.
They had to get a root scaling and planing done years ago.
And then they don't like...
My regular dentists, they don't tell you anything.
They're just like, oh, yeah, you got to do this.
Like, oh, we got to do this.
So I guess it's not like they sat me down.
They're like, you have periodontal disease.
They told me we have to go under your gums and clean them out.
I don't know what my periodontal chart is.
I get x-rays.
They tell me if I have cavities, but I don't like...
I don't know what the pocket depth is or any of that shit.
I just went to...
So how did you find out you needed this?
The periodontist he took a look at it, he's like, that's got to be covered.
The periodontist he took a look at it, he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.