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I'm almost 36 years old now. I used to have bad dental phobia since I was totured (yes, I insist that it was torture!) as a kid by a dentist in Germany (I am german) and his team. 4 people held me in the dentists chair while I was fighting, screaming and crying... and extracted 6 teeth at once.
Quite obviously this didn't help creating trust in dentists, even though this was just about baby tooth, which at that time didn't mean anything to me.
From that point on I avoided contact to any dentist or anything related to it as much as possible. So I didn't get braces even though I was told to get some, resulting in quite not-so-nice teeth.
And then began the slow decay of my teeth. Starting with a root canal treatment, which was the last time I've ever been to a dentist, being verbaly attacked by the dentist for the shape of my teeth and my anxious behaviour. I didn't go there for the final treatment and just lived on with the provisional thing in my mouth.
Over the years, tooth after tooth got holes, started to hurt and then died, started to desintegrate with some leftovers in my mouth, partially overgrown by new gum... it's pure luck that almost all of those teeth were molars, so no-one except me really noticed.
Then it started with 2 front teeth as well, and then I used some DIY dentistry with the well known superglue. Two front teeth are now gone, replaced by fake teeth made out of some coloured and lacquered superglue bits. I know that this sounds weird, but that's what I did and so my smile still looks quite ok, because I did a quite good job there *lol*. I had people look at the "teeth" and asked them if they notice anything weird and they said no.
Well, over the years, I had severe pain, fistulas (and I still have them), swollen jaws and areas where it feels like my jaw started to mushroom. But at the same time, the thought of a dentist became less and less frightening after I realised where it came from (experience as a kid) and how much pain it is not to go to a dentist.
But by now there's so much to do. I just moved to the UK 2 years and 1.5 month ago and I have a good job, but not much money. So my main problem is how to get treatment (preferably with IV sedation) to get my mouth sorted out without the treatment being spread out over month or even years.
I just want to get rid of the infectious remains of the dead teeth, because I fear that all that crap in my mouth will cause severe illness sooner or later. I would be able to go to a dentist, still afraid and anxious, but I wouldn't be stopped by that if I knew I would be told off or treated as a freak.
I am not registerd to any doctor/dentist in the UK, so what are my options to get this sorted in an affordable way? I don't even get a loan because I'm not in the UK for more than 3 years and also not in the Electoral Roll (as a foreigner).
Quite obviously this didn't help creating trust in dentists, even though this was just about baby tooth, which at that time didn't mean anything to me.
From that point on I avoided contact to any dentist or anything related to it as much as possible. So I didn't get braces even though I was told to get some, resulting in quite not-so-nice teeth.
And then began the slow decay of my teeth. Starting with a root canal treatment, which was the last time I've ever been to a dentist, being verbaly attacked by the dentist for the shape of my teeth and my anxious behaviour. I didn't go there for the final treatment and just lived on with the provisional thing in my mouth.
Over the years, tooth after tooth got holes, started to hurt and then died, started to desintegrate with some leftovers in my mouth, partially overgrown by new gum... it's pure luck that almost all of those teeth were molars, so no-one except me really noticed.
Then it started with 2 front teeth as well, and then I used some DIY dentistry with the well known superglue. Two front teeth are now gone, replaced by fake teeth made out of some coloured and lacquered superglue bits. I know that this sounds weird, but that's what I did and so my smile still looks quite ok, because I did a quite good job there *lol*. I had people look at the "teeth" and asked them if they notice anything weird and they said no.
Well, over the years, I had severe pain, fistulas (and I still have them), swollen jaws and areas where it feels like my jaw started to mushroom. But at the same time, the thought of a dentist became less and less frightening after I realised where it came from (experience as a kid) and how much pain it is not to go to a dentist.
But by now there's so much to do. I just moved to the UK 2 years and 1.5 month ago and I have a good job, but not much money. So my main problem is how to get treatment (preferably with IV sedation) to get my mouth sorted out without the treatment being spread out over month or even years.
I just want to get rid of the infectious remains of the dead teeth, because I fear that all that crap in my mouth will cause severe illness sooner or later. I would be able to go to a dentist, still afraid and anxious, but I wouldn't be stopped by that if I knew I would be told off or treated as a freak.
I am not registerd to any doctor/dentist in the UK, so what are my options to get this sorted in an affordable way? I don't even get a loan because I'm not in the UK for more than 3 years and also not in the Electoral Roll (as a foreigner).