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Jinney
Junior member
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2021
- Messages
- 7
- Location
- California
First of all, I would like to thank everyone in this group...thanks to this forum, I was finally able to make an appointment with a dentist.
Yesterday I had called and made an appointment for 5/11...but my tooth started hurting and my face is a little swollen...so I called today and thankfully they had an opening for me.
To share my story...I don’t know when my dental phobia started. When I was a kid, I had no problem going to the dentist. I think it might have been my highschool years when one of my friends shared her horror story about her trip to the dentist. I have some molars that lost filling and broke down to gumline. I also have two molars that crumbled couple years ago when I was on this medication for another condition I have.
I’ve had three kids...and I tell my friends I rather go through labor than see a dentist. But I realized it was not fear of pain...but fear of embarrassment.
Reading post and success stories from this forum gave me courage to face my fears(pain and my swollen face contributed a little too?)
Thank you and God bless you.
Yesterday I had called and made an appointment for 5/11...but my tooth started hurting and my face is a little swollen...so I called today and thankfully they had an opening for me.
To share my story...I don’t know when my dental phobia started. When I was a kid, I had no problem going to the dentist. I think it might have been my highschool years when one of my friends shared her horror story about her trip to the dentist. I have some molars that lost filling and broke down to gumline. I also have two molars that crumbled couple years ago when I was on this medication for another condition I have.
I’ve had three kids...and I tell my friends I rather go through labor than see a dentist. But I realized it was not fear of pain...but fear of embarrassment.
Reading post and success stories from this forum gave me courage to face my fears(pain and my swollen face contributed a little too?)
Thank you and God bless you.