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prettypinkice
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well to start off, Im 20 now, and have always been super scared of the dentist. I dont know how it started but I didnt see the dentist from the time i was 7ish untill I was in 10th grade. I seriously lost it if my mom dragged me there. Anyways, in highschool I started going to the dentist my dad and sister have been going to for years. He was super nice, and told me ever thing he was doing before he did it. He also always told me if there was a problem he would stop and talk to me. I got thru several fillings and was ok with cleanings.
Well a year ago I started having bad jaw pain/ headaches/ ear ringing. My dentist said it was TMJ and he specializes in treating TMJ. So i had to have molds taken (I was sooo freaked out but since have had it done several times and im, alright, with it, i guess). Then about 6 months ago he said to start my braces i need an expander first. He cemented it in my mouth and It was HORRIBLE. It took forever, hurt, gave me the creeps because the metal was screetching on my teeth and gagged me really bad when he was fitting it. But i thought, ok its all over now. Then i got my braces on, which is connected to the expander on my back teeth. My dentist told me from the start that first i would get the expander, then braces, and when the expander was done he would cut it out (its held in with wires) and i would be all good.
Im not kidding, since the day he put my braces on he has been a huge huge jerk. He will just start messing with my braces or cementing things and grinding things without telling me. He says he is just checking things out, then, ..grinding..water..cement and the light thing.... Which im always freaking out a little bit inside but think it wont be as bad as having the expander put in or getting the braces on. Well at my last appointment a few weeks ago, he was "just looking to see how things are going", when he starts grinding my expander and cements something to something. While he is doing that he says to the hygenist to make me a very long appointment next time. He is going to take my braces off, take my expander out, take molds, and then put everything back in! AND then two weeks after that appointment i need to come back and have my braces taken off and expander out again, put in a new, different kind of expander, and put my braces back on AGAIN. When he got the grinder out of my mouth I asked why he was going to do that. He says, "because Im gonna". I say, " I thought you said when my teeth are done expanding your just going to cut the expander out". And to that he says, "Well, I could explain it all to you, but im not going to, Its just what i have to do". .....and then he walks away. I lost it, i had to go to the bath room and i was crying and shaking, Its like the worst thing i could think of. I cant believe he would say that, and especially because he knows I am so so anxious and scared of the dentist. On top of me being scared to death of all this going on anyways, the way im seeing it is, he was all nice and cared about me being so anxious untill he put my braces on and we payed. Now im stuck there so he doesnt have to be super nice and careing anymore. Not kidding the day he put my braces on he started being an ass.
I know Im not going to die from going, and a few weeks after ill probably forgett about the whole thing, but im SO scared.... I'm scared of going thu the expander thing again, then again two weeks after. And Im super scared of how much taking the braces off both times is gonna hurt. Im scared he's not going to care how scared i am and just shove tons of stuff in my mouth and not tell me whats going on. Im scared ill get half way thu and not be able to finish with it... I'm scared im going to have a compleate panic attack and FREAKKKK, Im super mad how he treated me about the whole thing, and he did not care how upset it made me. ...I did ask my dad, but we already payed and cant get any $ back, so i am seriously stuck with this guy.
Well a year ago I started having bad jaw pain/ headaches/ ear ringing. My dentist said it was TMJ and he specializes in treating TMJ. So i had to have molds taken (I was sooo freaked out but since have had it done several times and im, alright, with it, i guess). Then about 6 months ago he said to start my braces i need an expander first. He cemented it in my mouth and It was HORRIBLE. It took forever, hurt, gave me the creeps because the metal was screetching on my teeth and gagged me really bad when he was fitting it. But i thought, ok its all over now. Then i got my braces on, which is connected to the expander on my back teeth. My dentist told me from the start that first i would get the expander, then braces, and when the expander was done he would cut it out (its held in with wires) and i would be all good.
Im not kidding, since the day he put my braces on he has been a huge huge jerk. He will just start messing with my braces or cementing things and grinding things without telling me. He says he is just checking things out, then, ..grinding..water..cement and the light thing.... Which im always freaking out a little bit inside but think it wont be as bad as having the expander put in or getting the braces on. Well at my last appointment a few weeks ago, he was "just looking to see how things are going", when he starts grinding my expander and cements something to something. While he is doing that he says to the hygenist to make me a very long appointment next time. He is going to take my braces off, take my expander out, take molds, and then put everything back in! AND then two weeks after that appointment i need to come back and have my braces taken off and expander out again, put in a new, different kind of expander, and put my braces back on AGAIN. When he got the grinder out of my mouth I asked why he was going to do that. He says, "because Im gonna". I say, " I thought you said when my teeth are done expanding your just going to cut the expander out". And to that he says, "Well, I could explain it all to you, but im not going to, Its just what i have to do". .....and then he walks away. I lost it, i had to go to the bath room and i was crying and shaking, Its like the worst thing i could think of. I cant believe he would say that, and especially because he knows I am so so anxious and scared of the dentist. On top of me being scared to death of all this going on anyways, the way im seeing it is, he was all nice and cared about me being so anxious untill he put my braces on and we payed. Now im stuck there so he doesnt have to be super nice and careing anymore. Not kidding the day he put my braces on he started being an ass.
I know Im not going to die from going, and a few weeks after ill probably forgett about the whole thing, but im SO scared.... I'm scared of going thu the expander thing again, then again two weeks after. And Im super scared of how much taking the braces off both times is gonna hurt. Im scared he's not going to care how scared i am and just shove tons of stuff in my mouth and not tell me whats going on. Im scared ill get half way thu and not be able to finish with it... I'm scared im going to have a compleate panic attack and FREAKKKK, Im super mad how he treated me about the whole thing, and he did not care how upset it made me. ...I did ask my dad, but we already payed and cant get any $ back, so i am seriously stuck with this guy.