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claireache
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So after many false starts I start my dental journey proper on Friday at 9.15 when I will have 26 teeth removed under sedation. Just writing those words makes me light headed but hoping that a journal might help me and maybe others facing a similar path.
My back ground is similar to many on here- acute phobia starting from childhood and worsening year by year as my teeth got worse and worse. Add in three pregnancies which destroyed my gums and acute morning sickness with all three which destroyed my enamel and a long running gagging/brushing phobia and here I am. Aged 47 terrified and facing full extractions.
If that were not bad enough they have been unable to take any impressions to make me an immediate denture so I will walk out of the surgery toothless on Friday. The plan is they will take the impressions on Friday and my "immediates" will be fast tracker and ready in 10 days. God knows what they will look like and how they will fit.
So I will creep away on Friday with a scarf over my face and just hide away at home until my next appointment.
My back ground is similar to many on here- acute phobia starting from childhood and worsening year by year as my teeth got worse and worse. Add in three pregnancies which destroyed my gums and acute morning sickness with all three which destroyed my enamel and a long running gagging/brushing phobia and here I am. Aged 47 terrified and facing full extractions.
If that were not bad enough they have been unable to take any impressions to make me an immediate denture so I will walk out of the surgery toothless on Friday. The plan is they will take the impressions on Friday and my "immediates" will be fast tracker and ready in 10 days. God knows what they will look like and how they will fit.
So I will creep away on Friday with a scarf over my face and just hide away at home until my next appointment.