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xanti
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Hello all,
newbie on this forum but not a newbie to dental phobia!
I have finally plucked up some courage and made an appointment with a private dentist in Somerset. I haven't been for about 5 years and I normally only go when I'm in agony
I have had some awful experiences with dentists in the past - even walking out before treatment started in one case due to the callous nature of one of them!
I started getting a few twinges in two of my teeth a few months back and before this turns into a full blown infection, with me remembering what those are like, I decided to go.
I am already shaking thinking of it - I have had a lot of trouble in the past getting numb, with one dentist telling me I was making it up HAH!
I really need my teeth fixed - i am missing one at the front for which I have a denture (hate it!!) and two in the bottom middle. I am looking for a relationship after my last one ended badly 8 years ago but am too self conscious to date - that is what is kepping me going at the moment!
To tell you just how bad the numbing problem is - an old friend of mine was a dentist and I had a really bad infection in one of my incisors. He started a root canal using gas and air and a lot of numbing stuff - but the same evening, the tooth went nuts and he told me to come down, he would open up for me and pull the tooth. Well- after numerous injections and me crying my eyes out, he couldn't get me numb and took me to the local hospital where he had trained and asked them to give me some iv sedation and pull the tooth. I 'woke up' during this due to the pain and jumped off the bed!
They gave me some stronger stuff and got the tooth removed.
I really need some courage here to, not only go tomorrow, but to keep going back until my teeth are fixed!
Thanks
Jackie
newbie on this forum but not a newbie to dental phobia!
I have finally plucked up some courage and made an appointment with a private dentist in Somerset. I haven't been for about 5 years and I normally only go when I'm in agony
I have had some awful experiences with dentists in the past - even walking out before treatment started in one case due to the callous nature of one of them!
I started getting a few twinges in two of my teeth a few months back and before this turns into a full blown infection, with me remembering what those are like, I decided to go.
I am already shaking thinking of it - I have had a lot of trouble in the past getting numb, with one dentist telling me I was making it up HAH!
I really need my teeth fixed - i am missing one at the front for which I have a denture (hate it!!) and two in the bottom middle. I am looking for a relationship after my last one ended badly 8 years ago but am too self conscious to date - that is what is kepping me going at the moment!
To tell you just how bad the numbing problem is - an old friend of mine was a dentist and I had a really bad infection in one of my incisors. He started a root canal using gas and air and a lot of numbing stuff - but the same evening, the tooth went nuts and he told me to come down, he would open up for me and pull the tooth. Well- after numerous injections and me crying my eyes out, he couldn't get me numb and took me to the local hospital where he had trained and asked them to give me some iv sedation and pull the tooth. I 'woke up' during this due to the pain and jumped off the bed!
They gave me some stronger stuff and got the tooth removed.
I really need some courage here to, not only go tomorrow, but to keep going back until my teeth are fixed!
Thanks
Jackie