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DublinDave
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- Jan 9, 2022
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So following a bad experience with a dentist when I was a child, I avoided going for many years as the dentist told me that he was going to make a procedure hurt in order to punish me and teach me a lesson.
About 4 years ago I plucked up the courage to go to a dentist where I was living at that time and had a few fillings done and a couple of extractions. I had an excellent relationship with a dentist and actually found going into him a pleasure. However alas I had to move country because of personal reasons and had to find a new dentist.
I found a new dentist, had an initial appointment and then a filling done and got on well with her. But now she has long COVID and is not practicing so once again I am finding a new dentist. So I've been assigned to another dentist at the same practice, a very young dentist who has only been on the UK General Dentist Council register for about 12 months having qualified in India in 2014.
Just after Christmas I had issue with swelling on the back of my right second molar. I went to dentist who said there was infection and abscess and gave me antibiotics with appointment on Tuesday to get the tooth taken out. The dentist said to me that because of the location of tooth roots directly against the sinus, maybe very slightly inside and the periapical abscess if not reduced, there is a chance of sinus perforation which really terrifies me to be honest.
So now whilst antibiotics have helped, I don't think it has totally gone and since the abscess is at root of my tooth and the closeness of the sinus, I'm petrified of this happening. Part of me thinks that I should get a more experienced dentist to have a look at it or wait till I can get an appointment with an oral surgeon, but the other part of me thinks that I have an infected and badly decayed tooth in my mouth and I shouldn't wait.
Right now I feel like cancelling the appointment as I'm petrified. I haven't slept right all week and just want a hole in the ground to swallow me up. I'm grateful for any advice or reassurance that can be given, as I need to get this done properly, but I'm shaking though fear of being stuck with sinus perforation for months and I have to travel abroad a lot for work and not being able to fly because of that is another problem.
Really thanks for any support you can give.
About 4 years ago I plucked up the courage to go to a dentist where I was living at that time and had a few fillings done and a couple of extractions. I had an excellent relationship with a dentist and actually found going into him a pleasure. However alas I had to move country because of personal reasons and had to find a new dentist.
I found a new dentist, had an initial appointment and then a filling done and got on well with her. But now she has long COVID and is not practicing so once again I am finding a new dentist. So I've been assigned to another dentist at the same practice, a very young dentist who has only been on the UK General Dentist Council register for about 12 months having qualified in India in 2014.
Just after Christmas I had issue with swelling on the back of my right second molar. I went to dentist who said there was infection and abscess and gave me antibiotics with appointment on Tuesday to get the tooth taken out. The dentist said to me that because of the location of tooth roots directly against the sinus, maybe very slightly inside and the periapical abscess if not reduced, there is a chance of sinus perforation which really terrifies me to be honest.
So now whilst antibiotics have helped, I don't think it has totally gone and since the abscess is at root of my tooth and the closeness of the sinus, I'm petrified of this happening. Part of me thinks that I should get a more experienced dentist to have a look at it or wait till I can get an appointment with an oral surgeon, but the other part of me thinks that I have an infected and badly decayed tooth in my mouth and I shouldn't wait.
Right now I feel like cancelling the appointment as I'm petrified. I haven't slept right all week and just want a hole in the ground to swallow me up. I'm grateful for any advice or reassurance that can be given, as I need to get this done properly, but I'm shaking though fear of being stuck with sinus perforation for months and I have to travel abroad a lot for work and not being able to fly because of that is another problem.
Really thanks for any support you can give.