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JPeterson
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My first post on this forum gives the story of the sadist and why he is the sole cause of my dental phobia.
Today was Root Canal day.
Didn’t sleep at all last night. Found out I’ve dropped 7 pounds from having zero appetite due to anxiety. I’ve felt nauseous for a week due to worrying myself sick. I was in a REALLY bad place.
I had a session with my healer immediately before my appointment today and she personally escorted me to the office (I probably would’ve run) on her lunch break.
My name was called, she came with me to get me settled and to hold my hand during the freezing. I sat down shaking because I was in a complete state of shock.
My Superhero dentist walked in and I asked if he could forgo giving me a mandiblular block and told him exactly what happened the last time. He was horrified and confirmed the sadist completely missed the nerve by a mile. I asked about mandible infiltration instead. He agreed but warned me that it had a 95% or more chance of failure. Since I have a hole in my jaw because of the abscess he was willing to try and see how it goes.
He showed me the topical q-tips and told me to close my eyes. I saw the sticks standing up out of my lip as I closed my eyes and felt him place them. Then he immediately told me to count to 5 in my head, he asked me my favourite hockey team and slid OUT the first shot as I answered. A whole capsule. 5 seconds. He did it while the topical was setting.
He turned away to reload. I heard it click...I gave him a hard time for it because the needle was the one part I was still adamant I didn’t want to have any indication of. He pinky promised I wouldn’t feel it regardless. He told me to close my eyes again, removed the topical q-tips at the same time he gave me the second. I knew it was there but the best way I can describe it is if you ran a safety pin through the bottom of a really big water blister and let the pin just sit there for 5 seconds.
My healer is also a massage therapist so when he started massaging the freezing into my jaw she showed him how to do it better/more effectively. He even let me feel the big bump it caused beforehand.
He told me to throw in my headphones because he was “gonna get his drilling thing on”. The first second he stopped I pulled them out because they did nothing for me. I couldn’t hear the Binaural Beat over the high pitched drill sound in my mouth.
I ended up watching the entire rest of the procedure and taking selfies with the files still in my tooth on X-ray breaks.
The only time I felt a thing was for less than a nanosecond when he had fully cleaned the root out and used his fancy stabber to melt the gutta petcha at the very bottom of the base. It was so quick my brain didn’t have enough time to register the heat.
The last X-rays show a perfect root canal. My healer and I walked out together 35 minutes later.
The freezing was gone within an hour or so. With the exception of the fancy stabber I haven’t felt anything since the topical being placed and my little circular bruise at the injection site is completely painless and kinda cute.
As far as discomfort it feels like I have a popcorn husk stuck between my lip and my tooth. That’s it. Considering everything it’s not even annoying. I also have a weirdish taste in my mouth. Somewhat salty like a margarita rim and a little like copper.
I’m actually excited to go to my next appointment with him in 3 weeks and when there’s future root canals I’ll gladly jump back in his chair.
I can officially say I ROCKED IT!!!
Today was Root Canal day.
Didn’t sleep at all last night. Found out I’ve dropped 7 pounds from having zero appetite due to anxiety. I’ve felt nauseous for a week due to worrying myself sick. I was in a REALLY bad place.
I had a session with my healer immediately before my appointment today and she personally escorted me to the office (I probably would’ve run) on her lunch break.
My name was called, she came with me to get me settled and to hold my hand during the freezing. I sat down shaking because I was in a complete state of shock.
My Superhero dentist walked in and I asked if he could forgo giving me a mandiblular block and told him exactly what happened the last time. He was horrified and confirmed the sadist completely missed the nerve by a mile. I asked about mandible infiltration instead. He agreed but warned me that it had a 95% or more chance of failure. Since I have a hole in my jaw because of the abscess he was willing to try and see how it goes.
He showed me the topical q-tips and told me to close my eyes. I saw the sticks standing up out of my lip as I closed my eyes and felt him place them. Then he immediately told me to count to 5 in my head, he asked me my favourite hockey team and slid OUT the first shot as I answered. A whole capsule. 5 seconds. He did it while the topical was setting.
He turned away to reload. I heard it click...I gave him a hard time for it because the needle was the one part I was still adamant I didn’t want to have any indication of. He pinky promised I wouldn’t feel it regardless. He told me to close my eyes again, removed the topical q-tips at the same time he gave me the second. I knew it was there but the best way I can describe it is if you ran a safety pin through the bottom of a really big water blister and let the pin just sit there for 5 seconds.
My healer is also a massage therapist so when he started massaging the freezing into my jaw she showed him how to do it better/more effectively. He even let me feel the big bump it caused beforehand.
He told me to throw in my headphones because he was “gonna get his drilling thing on”. The first second he stopped I pulled them out because they did nothing for me. I couldn’t hear the Binaural Beat over the high pitched drill sound in my mouth.
I ended up watching the entire rest of the procedure and taking selfies with the files still in my tooth on X-ray breaks.
The only time I felt a thing was for less than a nanosecond when he had fully cleaned the root out and used his fancy stabber to melt the gutta petcha at the very bottom of the base. It was so quick my brain didn’t have enough time to register the heat.
The last X-rays show a perfect root canal. My healer and I walked out together 35 minutes later.
The freezing was gone within an hour or so. With the exception of the fancy stabber I haven’t felt anything since the topical being placed and my little circular bruise at the injection site is completely painless and kinda cute.
As far as discomfort it feels like I have a popcorn husk stuck between my lip and my tooth. That’s it. Considering everything it’s not even annoying. I also have a weirdish taste in my mouth. Somewhat salty like a margarita rim and a little like copper.
I’m actually excited to go to my next appointment with him in 3 weeks and when there’s future root canals I’ll gladly jump back in his chair.
I can officially say I ROCKED IT!!!
