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thething444
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Can anyone help, my partner has a serious phobia about dentists. To the point he would rather put up with an Abcess by taking painkillers, he would even rather let his teeth crumble in his mouth than get help.
He has a very overactive imagination, to the point he can not even watch TV programmes that show needles. The only chance he has of going to a dentist is if they administer gas ! He did find a practice a few years ago that he was reasonably happy to go to if he really really had to, but the dentist moved, and the next time he went to have a tooth out the Dentist did not seem to care he had phobia. Another dentist he went to that dealt with dentistry phobias told him that Gas would not work on him as an adult, and would need to try some other way. But when he tryed to explian he did have it only a few years ago and he was fine.
I know what people might say about going to a doctors to get peniccilian to kill the infection but he is stubborn and is confinced it wont help because it hadn't in the past.
He has just explained that he has weird noises coming from his mouth! I am worired but there is nothing I can do to make it better. He is not eating and is really really in agerny, in between taking painkillers.
We live in Wolverhampton.
Please help I dont know what I can do to releive him of this pain.
Tracey
He has a very overactive imagination, to the point he can not even watch TV programmes that show needles. The only chance he has of going to a dentist is if they administer gas ! He did find a practice a few years ago that he was reasonably happy to go to if he really really had to, but the dentist moved, and the next time he went to have a tooth out the Dentist did not seem to care he had phobia. Another dentist he went to that dealt with dentistry phobias told him that Gas would not work on him as an adult, and would need to try some other way. But when he tryed to explian he did have it only a few years ago and he was fine.
I know what people might say about going to a doctors to get peniccilian to kill the infection but he is stubborn and is confinced it wont help because it hadn't in the past.
He has just explained that he has weird noises coming from his mouth! I am worired but there is nothing I can do to make it better. He is not eating and is really really in agerny, in between taking painkillers.
We live in Wolverhampton.
Please help I dont know what I can do to releive him of this pain.
Tracey