Just over a year ago I was just like you about getting treatment, I had to find a new dentist when a tooth broke. I sat trying to think a way out of having to go, I must have picked up the phone a dozen or more times to phone and ask if it would be possible for me to attend the dental practice I decided on. I eventually did phone and in tears I spoke to the receptionist and explained what my situation was with the broken tooth and being phobic at that point. I could not even walk past a dentist without looking the other way and shaking and feeling like I was going to pass out.
I went to the appointment, I don't know how I got there, I felt like I was going to pass out, my chest was killing me it was so tight, it felt like I had pulled a muscle all across my chest. I was out of breath, my heart was pumping so much it felt like it was going to burst, and I was shaking so much I felt like my legs were going to buckle from under me. I got there and the first app went well, the dentist just had a look at my teeth with just a mirror and took an x ray, he gave me some antibiotics and was told to go back after I had finished them to have the broken tooth removed.
I had all sorts of thoughts going through my head about it being a big job and harder because it was broken. I went and once again I don't know how I got there, I was terrified, I did have the tooth removed and had a panic attack, but he was so quick and considerate. Because I was so worked up I felt exhausted and wobbly coming out, but it wasn't anything he had done it was what I had done to myself with the worry and stress.
I think everybody on here has done this to themselves, so we all understand where you are coming from. I had to return to have the tooth next to the one taken out treated, I had to decide whether to have a rct or another extraction, I went for the appointment and I didn't even get to the chair, I stood in the door way and I must have looked like a mad woman because as I stood in the doorway he just talked to me and asked what I wanted to do, I said I didn't want to lose it but to take it out because I couldn't do a root canal treatment. He spent half an hour just talking to me and said that he didn't want to do anything that day as I was too upset and to come back the week after for an extraction appointment but for me to think about it and if I changed my mind to phone up and tell them because I would need a longer appointment. I did change my mind and I did have the rct and another after that.
If you could get yourself there again, and let them look after you and try not to get to the panic'd state that is out of control, and put your faith in the person that is going to do the job, I think you will be surprised at how well you do and that you can indeed have this done.
I am so grateful to the dentist I saw just allowing me that extra time, and I was and still am fine and you will be too.
I really hope that you can gain the courage to go back and get the treatment, you will feel so good after and so much better than you do now. You feel like you are walking on air and you feel like you have conquered a mountain. Good luck










