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Jimsie
Former Member
My Journal (impacted canine tooth, fear of pain etc) comments/advice welcome
I have my first dental appointment in over 3 years on monday. I am pretty much scared of every aspect of the dentist but mostly the pain. I can't think about anything else other than my teeth and the dentist at the moment. I can see block dots on teeth at the back so i presume they will need fillings. The last time i went i had a big filling and i hated every aspect of it like the pain from the anasthetic and the sensitivity etc. I managed to convince myself that i was worrying over nothing but then afterwards i thought the reality was much worse than anything i was thinking before.
Another thing i am very worried about is the fact that i have an impacted canine tooth. There is still a baby tooth in the place it was meant to be but the baby tooth is hollow and black inside.. i imagine the dentist will want to remove it. Then i think my options are either having a brace and trying to expose the big tooth and push it down or get a bridge and possibly have the impacted tooth extracted. I hate the idea of either option but i could probably tolerate a bridge better than i could tolerate braces.
Although i havn't had any particularly bad dentists, the last guy i had said he wouldn't use any injections and then ended up using about 3.. which was confusing and after the precedure he told me how bad the filling looked and lectured me about looking after them which i do anyway. So that didn't help matters. I want to tell the new dentist that I have a phobia of the pain and everything but i feel embarrassed to.
I am a student so i get free dentistry on the NHS so i dont think i could ask for sedation or anything. I will post again to talk about what happened and what is needed.
I have my first dental appointment in over 3 years on monday. I am pretty much scared of every aspect of the dentist but mostly the pain. I can't think about anything else other than my teeth and the dentist at the moment. I can see block dots on teeth at the back so i presume they will need fillings. The last time i went i had a big filling and i hated every aspect of it like the pain from the anasthetic and the sensitivity etc. I managed to convince myself that i was worrying over nothing but then afterwards i thought the reality was much worse than anything i was thinking before.
Another thing i am very worried about is the fact that i have an impacted canine tooth. There is still a baby tooth in the place it was meant to be but the baby tooth is hollow and black inside.. i imagine the dentist will want to remove it. Then i think my options are either having a brace and trying to expose the big tooth and push it down or get a bridge and possibly have the impacted tooth extracted. I hate the idea of either option but i could probably tolerate a bridge better than i could tolerate braces.
Although i havn't had any particularly bad dentists, the last guy i had said he wouldn't use any injections and then ended up using about 3.. which was confusing and after the precedure he told me how bad the filling looked and lectured me about looking after them which i do anyway. So that didn't help matters. I want to tell the new dentist that I have a phobia of the pain and everything but i feel embarrassed to.
I am a student so i get free dentistry on the NHS so i dont think i could ask for sedation or anything. I will post again to talk about what happened and what is needed.