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Whyohwhy12
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@Anxiety Riddled honestly I was petrified of going. Just like you. My teeth sound like they're in worse shape than yours and they just acted normal with me. It wasn't like a big, ''oh wow, I see why you been hiding it", it was just professional and she was really nice with me. She'd ask me things like what did I think contributed to my issues, did I do certain things that maybe made it worse etc, and then the gameplan of how we're going to fix it. It wasn't judgmental at all.
I know it's easy for me to say because if you told me this just days ago I'd have laughed, you can read my older posts to see what a mess I was, but I think you should really go for it. One thing that convinced me to go is that whatever is going on isn't going to change if I go or not. If I've got teeth that need to come out then all I'm gonna experience is pain and that tooth, along with the others, just falling apart. I figured if anything is savable it's gotta be now I just sort it out, because even with great dental hygiene it wouldn't fix my problems.
If you're worried about your gums maybe look at it that way. Two choices; don't go and things get worse, or go and they can help with whatever is going on. If you don't go, then it's just going to bother you forever. If you do go, and even if your gums are as bad as your mind thinks they are, they're the only people who can help you. That's how I eventually saw it.
And yup, my face just seems to now sit in that closed mouth almost drooping position, like all the muscles I haven't used with smiling are so weak
I know it's easy for me to say because if you told me this just days ago I'd have laughed, you can read my older posts to see what a mess I was, but I think you should really go for it. One thing that convinced me to go is that whatever is going on isn't going to change if I go or not. If I've got teeth that need to come out then all I'm gonna experience is pain and that tooth, along with the others, just falling apart. I figured if anything is savable it's gotta be now I just sort it out, because even with great dental hygiene it wouldn't fix my problems.
If you're worried about your gums maybe look at it that way. Two choices; don't go and things get worse, or go and they can help with whatever is going on. If you don't go, then it's just going to bother you forever. If you do go, and even if your gums are as bad as your mind thinks they are, they're the only people who can help you. That's how I eventually saw it.
And yup, my face just seems to now sit in that closed mouth almost drooping position, like all the muscles I haven't used with smiling are so weak