R
Randle
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- Sep 6, 2022
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Hello,
I’m 23 have not really been scared of going to the dentist before Covid but I do suffer with health anxiety. I went to the dentist for the first time in 3 years yesterday, I have a huge cavity in my bottom left 1st molar and obviously they said that I would need to have it extracted or have root canal. It all happened so fast and the dentist was quite vague and uninterested. I have been given strong antibiotics to take for a week because the tooth is probably infected and I’m scheduled to have it taken out on Saturday (could not afford route canal.)
I’ve spiralling all day, I’m so terrified. I’m scared of these antibiotics causing resistant bacteria because I don’t have any symptoms of infection (abscess) but then I’m also terrified of getting sepsis before or after the extraction. So many things I’ve read say that you should get the tooth out as soon as possible and it has been like this for months so delaying it by having me take antibiotics has me scared.
Also that fact that I can only have it extracted leaves me to deal with the fact I will be missing a important tooth and I can’t afford to get an implant so it will look ugly and affect my speech and eating and the teeth around it will start to move over time.
Sorry I’m so worked up and overwhelmed and have no one to talk to.
I’m 23 have not really been scared of going to the dentist before Covid but I do suffer with health anxiety. I went to the dentist for the first time in 3 years yesterday, I have a huge cavity in my bottom left 1st molar and obviously they said that I would need to have it extracted or have root canal. It all happened so fast and the dentist was quite vague and uninterested. I have been given strong antibiotics to take for a week because the tooth is probably infected and I’m scheduled to have it taken out on Saturday (could not afford route canal.)
I’ve spiralling all day, I’m so terrified. I’m scared of these antibiotics causing resistant bacteria because I don’t have any symptoms of infection (abscess) but then I’m also terrified of getting sepsis before or after the extraction. So many things I’ve read say that you should get the tooth out as soon as possible and it has been like this for months so delaying it by having me take antibiotics has me scared.
Also that fact that I can only have it extracted leaves me to deal with the fact I will be missing a important tooth and I can’t afford to get an implant so it will look ugly and affect my speech and eating and the teeth around it will start to move over time.
Sorry I’m so worked up and overwhelmed and have no one to talk to.