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Shelbyc47
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Hi everyone.
My name is Shelby, and I have my first dentist appointment tomorrow afternoon in almost 4 years. I've had a horrible phobia of all things dentistry related since a very early age. I was lucky throughout childhood to never have any dental issues. Fast forward to high school...where my awful family genetics came to bite me and I underwent 3 or 4 separate planing and scaling procedures because of my crazy tartar buildup (every female in my family has this issue...hello 4 cleanings per year). I was happy with the dentist and hygienist that I was going to, and for the first time I felt comfortable in the chair. However, my sophomore year of college, the dentist retired and the hygienist moved out of state. I saw the dentist that replaced him one time and that was enough to turn me off until now. I needed a deep cleaning once again, and he and the hygienist insisted that I didn't need lidocaine or gas. It was absolutely terrifying and painful, and I haven't stepped foot in a dentists office since.
I'm now about to start my second year of graduate school and just made the dreaded phone call to set up an appointment for tomorrow. I have quite a bit of tartar/calculus buildup behind my bottom front teeth. It has never bothered me at all...until yesterday. I got hit in the mouth (not very hard), but hard enough to make the "tartar bridge" behind my teeth crack. Normally when this happens, a little chunk falls out and I get on with life. However, this shifted the tartar spots slightly...and now one of my bottom teeth is wiggling slightly (I'm hoping from being separated from the tartar and that it will tighten up soon).
The bad thing is, I'm in grad school for music and our auditions for ensembles are literally next week. I found a dentist that has worked with people who have high anxiety and he put me down for a deep cleaning/emergency visit tomorrow afternoon. I'm terrified that something done at the appointment will affect how I play my instrument.
If you all have any words of support, encouragement, or might have any ideas of what might happen to tighten up the tooth (I know it's hard with just a text description of the issue), I would be most grateful. I'm hoping that my plan of getting numbed up and gasses up will make the appointment go much smoother for me!
Sorry for the long post!
My name is Shelby, and I have my first dentist appointment tomorrow afternoon in almost 4 years. I've had a horrible phobia of all things dentistry related since a very early age. I was lucky throughout childhood to never have any dental issues. Fast forward to high school...where my awful family genetics came to bite me and I underwent 3 or 4 separate planing and scaling procedures because of my crazy tartar buildup (every female in my family has this issue...hello 4 cleanings per year). I was happy with the dentist and hygienist that I was going to, and for the first time I felt comfortable in the chair. However, my sophomore year of college, the dentist retired and the hygienist moved out of state. I saw the dentist that replaced him one time and that was enough to turn me off until now. I needed a deep cleaning once again, and he and the hygienist insisted that I didn't need lidocaine or gas. It was absolutely terrifying and painful, and I haven't stepped foot in a dentists office since.
I'm now about to start my second year of graduate school and just made the dreaded phone call to set up an appointment for tomorrow. I have quite a bit of tartar/calculus buildup behind my bottom front teeth. It has never bothered me at all...until yesterday. I got hit in the mouth (not very hard), but hard enough to make the "tartar bridge" behind my teeth crack. Normally when this happens, a little chunk falls out and I get on with life. However, this shifted the tartar spots slightly...and now one of my bottom teeth is wiggling slightly (I'm hoping from being separated from the tartar and that it will tighten up soon).
The bad thing is, I'm in grad school for music and our auditions for ensembles are literally next week. I found a dentist that has worked with people who have high anxiety and he put me down for a deep cleaning/emergency visit tomorrow afternoon. I'm terrified that something done at the appointment will affect how I play my instrument.
If you all have any words of support, encouragement, or might have any ideas of what might happen to tighten up the tooth (I know it's hard with just a text description of the issue), I would be most grateful. I'm hoping that my plan of getting numbed up and gasses up will make the appointment go much smoother for me!
Sorry for the long post!