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mick1988
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I asked the following on the support sub section but didn't receive a reply and was wondering if anyone in here would be able to help?
"How's it going folks? I've been tasked with sorting this problem out for my girlfriend.
She is terrified of dentists, turns the TV off if anything similar appears, can't listen to people talking about it and so on.
She desperately needs work done. About 2 years ago she was booked into a dentist, went for the first check up and that was grand. Then went to get the work done and she burst into tears and left the dentist never to go back.
At the time she needed a filling removed and a root canal done on the one tooth. She says she isn't entirely sure because the tooth is still sensitive to hot and cold, which suggests the nerve isn't dead? She now has a dull throb every day.
She needs to be knocked out we think. I have tried to research NHS sedation clinics, but all is not simple.
Just looking for the first step. Is the first step to register with an ordinary dentist and tell them and they might refer you to a sedation clinic?"
An update is that this morning we went to her GP to see if she could get a referral to a dental hospital but the doctor didn't know what we were talking about, so back to square one
Thanks folks!
"How's it going folks? I've been tasked with sorting this problem out for my girlfriend.
She is terrified of dentists, turns the TV off if anything similar appears, can't listen to people talking about it and so on.
She desperately needs work done. About 2 years ago she was booked into a dentist, went for the first check up and that was grand. Then went to get the work done and she burst into tears and left the dentist never to go back.
At the time she needed a filling removed and a root canal done on the one tooth. She says she isn't entirely sure because the tooth is still sensitive to hot and cold, which suggests the nerve isn't dead? She now has a dull throb every day.
She needs to be knocked out we think. I have tried to research NHS sedation clinics, but all is not simple.
Just looking for the first step. Is the first step to register with an ordinary dentist and tell them and they might refer you to a sedation clinic?"
An update is that this morning we went to her GP to see if she could get a referral to a dental hospital but the doctor didn't know what we were talking about, so back to square one
Thanks folks!