Just looking for opinions before I make myself look like a weirdo.
I have just finished my first lot of treatment on my teeth. I haven’t been to a dentist since I was 14, I am now mid thirties. I can not emphasise enough how terrified of the dentist I am, I had an horrendous dental experience at 14 and that literally put me off for the next 20 years.
over the years I’ve suffered from horrible toothache that has left me in agony but I’ve always waited it out until the nerve died and the pain went. Terrible I know. Totally shameful.
anyway, I finally forced myself into the dentist chair after TWO abscesses at the same time that put me on the brink suicide with pain. I was hysterical at my first appointment, had to be forced into the room, sobbing and shaking. I’m a senior nurse in an intense specialty and to think this is how I behaved was mortifying, but I was terrified and just mortified.
The dentist could not have been nicer. He is so calm and understanding. He put me at such ease, took everything at my pace, explained everything, was not judgemental. Just all round lovely. I have spent £2000 so far (extraction and fillings so far), I have another £2000ish lot of treatment to do but finances mean this won’t be done this year.
I was thinking of dropping in a little card and maybe a costa voucher to say thank you. I know I’ve paid him/the practice for the work but I could not have even sat in the chair if it wasn’t for his kind words and how lovely he has been. I cannot thank him enough.
My dp think this is weird as they ‘have had enough of my money already’ which of course I get that, he hasn’t done the work out of the goodness of his heart but I just think a nice card is the best way to show it and he mentioned he was calling costa for a massive coffee after a particularly long appointment.
is this weird? At work we get cards and little gifts from patients which are always lovely to get but obviously we don’t charge for anything!
any dentists or dental nurses who can tell me if I’ll look like a weirdo 🤣