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Strelitzian
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I've got an abscess and it's been untreated for a while - the pain went away etc, but it's been too long and I know I can't let it go on for much longer so I've finally taken the plunge and gone to a dentist. He's a perfectly decent and lovely, chatty man who does everything he can to put me at ease.
The problem is, I'm terrified of him!
I let him know from the very beginning that the thought of a dentist makes me so nervous I can hardly speak. So he was good enough to perform a more minor filling on one of my teeth as a "confidence booster". A nice idea, but I'm still majorly scared.
Particularly because of upcoming extraction. It's coming out next Friday and I've got all these awful images of my jaw collapsing running through my head. I keep telling myself, "he wouldn't have offered extraction if he didn't think it was the right thing to do."
Then I go, "Or would he?"
Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Fear of dentists/need for urgent work done/fear of that urgent work going awry?
The problem is, I'm terrified of him!
I let him know from the very beginning that the thought of a dentist makes me so nervous I can hardly speak. So he was good enough to perform a more minor filling on one of my teeth as a "confidence booster". A nice idea, but I'm still majorly scared.
Particularly because of upcoming extraction. It's coming out next Friday and I've got all these awful images of my jaw collapsing running through my head. I keep telling myself, "he wouldn't have offered extraction if he didn't think it was the right thing to do."
Then I go, "Or would he?"
Has anyone else been in a similar situation? Fear of dentists/need for urgent work done/fear of that urgent work going awry?