Moral support

[reperez]

Hello all,

So today I went in for a dental appointment and they found a cavity on one tooth the first in two years. Thankfully it is only just starting to form they said due to an old filling breaking down overtime. How ever they do not feel the need to sedate me fully since they are so small and that makes me extremely nervous since I have really bad dental anxiety. I am going to try to use laughing gas for it and some noise canceling headphones though I am not sure if this will work. I would like to ask if any of you have had laughing gas used before and what was your experience with it? Did it help at all and what did you do to try and cope?

 

[citrustwist]

I had laughing gas and listened to music for when I got my root canal, and it absolutely helped. My main fear was of needles but the laughing gas made it so that I couldn't care as much about the needle. It made my body feel tingly? Lightweight? Sort of like the sensation when your arm or hand falls asleep. I can see that potentially having the opposite of a calming effect, which was almost me, but I kept repeating in my head that I would be fine and I managed to ride that feeling and stay calm.