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mouthsewnshut
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I have been putting off having my wobbly wisdom tooth out. For awhile now. My dentist doesn't use sedation so he referred me to a clinic that deals with anxious patients and I saw a couple dentists there and I was not comfortable with them, so I tried to justify keeping my tooth. It has no decay, it's that the gum and bone have receded and cause inflammation, on and off. The last dentist I saw, she seemed better, nicer, listened to my concerns and didn't push me into anything. she gave me three options, the first was that we do nothing for now, and they close my case, if my tooth starts acting up again, I can get referred again. Second option is I come back for a trial of nitrous oxide, to see how i react to it and if I like it. Then I go home. The third option is that I go in, and agree with her that if I try the gas and it makes me feel ok, then she an take the tooth out.
I know that it will eventually have to come out and i am just torturing myself when I forever postpone the extraction, it plays in the back of my mind all the time and I have been really anxious and stressed over the past months. The rational part of me says Go for door number 3, have it out and get it over with. The phobic side of me is curled up in a little ball and is terrified and is saying no no no no. I am pretty sure I will go for it, but I am so scared, I don't know what will happen after, I am anticipating so much fear, freaking out knowing that my tooth is out, I am not coping well at all. I explained that I also have a phobia of being sick, and that the blood clot would pose a problem so she came up with a solution, they have some sort of dissolvable foam that she can put in the hole to hold the clot in. But I am still scared.
How do you cope with the aftermath of an extraction? I need help to deal with this, it's driving me nuts
I know that it will eventually have to come out and i am just torturing myself when I forever postpone the extraction, it plays in the back of my mind all the time and I have been really anxious and stressed over the past months. The rational part of me says Go for door number 3, have it out and get it over with. The phobic side of me is curled up in a little ball and is terrified and is saying no no no no. I am pretty sure I will go for it, but I am so scared, I don't know what will happen after, I am anticipating so much fear, freaking out knowing that my tooth is out, I am not coping well at all. I explained that I also have a phobia of being sick, and that the blood clot would pose a problem so she came up with a solution, they have some sort of dissolvable foam that she can put in the hole to hold the clot in. But I am still scared.
How do you cope with the aftermath of an extraction? I need help to deal with this, it's driving me nuts