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Chris1986UK
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Hi All,
Sorry for all the questions.
I’m asking this question for my girlfriend, as she had a bad experience this week. She was due root canal treatment and received the above injections and one either side of the tooth in question.
She said the injections hurt that much she had tears streaming down her face and was squirming in the chair flinching and moving around.
Are these lower nerve block injections and around the tooth really meant to be that kind of painful? She said she couldn’t hold still and panicked because the pain was that intense on all of them. That sort of shocked me a fair bit as I’ve overcome the worst of my phobia, but this ‘horror story’ made me overthink massively over the last three days.
The dentist mentioned about sedation for the next time. My partner suffers with massive anxiety and other mental health conditions on top of her dread/fear of dental treatment.
Is sedation something that is generally a good idea for patients like that? She still has round 2 and the crown to go and I am almost worried for her and her safety. I don’t like the thought of her being in that much pain and she is really traumatised by how much it hurt. I just could never have imagined it hurting that bad. I’ve had fairly good experiences since overcoming my phobia.
Thank you in advance for reading!
Chris
Sorry for all the questions.
I’m asking this question for my girlfriend, as she had a bad experience this week. She was due root canal treatment and received the above injections and one either side of the tooth in question.
She said the injections hurt that much she had tears streaming down her face and was squirming in the chair flinching and moving around.
Are these lower nerve block injections and around the tooth really meant to be that kind of painful? She said she couldn’t hold still and panicked because the pain was that intense on all of them. That sort of shocked me a fair bit as I’ve overcome the worst of my phobia, but this ‘horror story’ made me overthink massively over the last three days.
The dentist mentioned about sedation for the next time. My partner suffers with massive anxiety and other mental health conditions on top of her dread/fear of dental treatment.
Is sedation something that is generally a good idea for patients like that? She still has round 2 and the crown to go and I am almost worried for her and her safety. I don’t like the thought of her being in that much pain and she is really traumatised by how much it hurt. I just could never have imagined it hurting that bad. I’ve had fairly good experiences since overcoming my phobia.
Thank you in advance for reading!
Chris