Extreme fear

[anxietysucks]

I have an extreme fear of dental work, to the extent of it affecting my daily life even without any current tooth issues.

It has consumed my life for the last 2 years to the point of constant “googling” and it popping in my head randomly throughout the day it’s almost always the first thing that pops into my head as soon as I open my eyes, I know an infection will come at some point and that I cannot shake the fear of after constantly being faced with this article every time I google. https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article129897424.html

I know this has been beaten to death over and over again but how does a person know or how can a person tell who is susceptible to getting sepsis, or does it even happen? I mean the article states it happened.

 

[Gordon]

know an infection will come at some point and that I cannot shake the fear of after constantly being faced with this article every time I google. https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article129897424.html

Funny thing, whenever I read an article in a newspaper on any subject that I know something about, not necessarily dentistry, then I usually find several basic errors... I came to the conclusion decades ago that newspapers are mostly full of bollocks.
This article doesn't make a lot of sense, I suspect that there are several things we aren't being told which are crucial.

https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article129897424.html

I know this has been beaten to death over and over again but how does a person know or how can a person tell who is susceptible to getting sepsis, or does it even happen?

The usual stuff: Over 65s, long term steroid users, long term kidney disease, immunosuppressive drugs/leukaemia, HIV generally the old and very frail

I've honestly never seen a dental infection cause any kind of life threatening infection. You get the occasional scare story popping up in newspapers (but see above!) but in over 40 years of practice I've never seen or heard of one first hand. Despite working closely with acute hospital surgeons for most of that time...

PS My doctor son says that there's no such thing as "Sepsis" (he contends that it's a variety of different things all lumped together by lay people) and gets very cross when it gets brought up in the news

 

[anxietysucks]

@Gordon thank you so much, I felt an extreme sense of calm enter my body reading your reply, you have made my day and I really mean that! You completely converted someone’s day for the positive!

Keep doing what you’re doing!