To think that just under half a molar is perfectly adequate and I don't need to go to the dentist?

[HoneyDragon]

How amazing is amazing? Like amazing as in no longer put a fucking needle in your fucking mouth amazing?

Yes actually! Tell the dentist you're scared and have a low pain threshold. They can numb the gum, then do a shallow injection you won't feel, the go in for the deep injection and you won't feel that one either.

It will be a needle in my mouth

And you always get dome tosser thinking because I have tattoos and piercings I should man up I don't have tattoos or piercings in my mouth though. Because it's my mouth!!!!

Some not dome

Tell them, they'll have met people who have even more of a phobia than you - trufax. Be honest, most are trained to work with anxious patients. Some even specialise in patients with phobias, it might be worth looking one of those up.

You can do it. I felt so much better when I took control of it. I know it's a cliche but if you've given birth, this is a doddle in comparison (unless you sneezed your dc out) it will be fine, honestly.

Dh is hiding in bed now, bless him. I know I have to call the dentist in the morning but I keep breaking out in the sweats and going a bit green.

Hi......same situation here,

Am absolutely terrified of the dentist- have avoided for years and years and now I'm afraid of what might be going on in my mouth. Last time I was at the dentist he brutally injected the roof of my mouth - I was crying so much it put me off dentists for life.

How do you ask to be referred to a sedation clinic anyways? Will it be after the initial consultation?

I guess so. I might be able to tell you tomorrow

Sunken face more likely to look like this than Kate Moss:

I can pull that off.

Seriously, just go. If it gets infected you will KNOW about it, trust me. I have had a root canal and a crown. It didn't even hurt, honestly. The injection is just like getting a bit of crisp stuck for a second, that's honestly the level of it.

Huh. This place is a bunch if vipers. I'm going to report everyone who says I need to go to the dentists.

I feel a bit better since I had a big snotty cry on dh

Go.

I'm terrified of dentists too and hadn't been for over 15 years and my teeth were in a state. A recent abcess had OH physically dragging me into a dentists and pushing me up the stairs.

I've now been 4 times over last couple of months and have one more appointment.

I'm so happy I went. I've gone from feeling sick and faint, and shaking like a leaf to feeling perfectly ok about going now. OH came with me the first 4 times but next time I'm going on my own.

It's changed a LOT since I last went.

Injections - they now use a gel to numb your gum before the injections. The injections work really quickly now - in a couple of minutes - no more doing the walk of doom back out to the waiting room to sit and sweat for 15 minutes while you wait for it to work. I did feel a small amount of sensation during the injections a couple of times, but nothing like it used to be, and I've had back teeth done and I remember those injections used to be really painful. Not now.

I can hand on heart say I haven't felt a single thing through any of the treatment. And I've had two normal fillings (one in an infected tooth that needed two sessions), one massive filling in a broken down tooth that only had a little spike of tooth left sticking up (she's created a whole new tooth out of white filling, it looks fantastic), and I'm having one broken front tooth crowned. I've had the prep work done for the crown and I didn't feel anything. It didn't take much longer than a normal filling. I've got a temporary crown fitted to it and I look like a normal human being again. I've only got to go back to have the permanent crown fitted (they are made to fit you so it takes a couple of weeks).

I no longer have any twinges or aches, or sore gums. I no longer look like a wino with a mouthful of broken teeth. I no longer have bad breath from rotting teeth.

It was all done on NHS so cost me £219 in total.

Go.

I'm going to take my dentist a Thank You card at my last appointment. I'm going to keep going regularly. I'm honestly confident about it now, from being a nervous wreck at the mere thought of the word 'dentist'.

Anou

Have you rung them yet, HoneyDragon? >

My dentists uses a numbing gel before the injection so you don't really feel it, just a pressure.
I also get to choose the flavour of the gel...I normally go for piña colada :)
Just explain that you have a low pain threshold and are very very nervous.

Nope, you don't need to go.
Absolutely not.

I have half a wisdom tooth on each side on the bottom and all 4 are impacted (I have no idea what that actually means but I sure as shit ain't googling).

I went to the dentist 2 years ago in a mad 'I am woman hear me roar' moment. When I was riding the wave of independence after XDH moved out. I even had a filling and a scale and polish, no tears at all, I was well 'ard. He told me I needed all 4 wisdom teeth taking out and they would do it in hospital under general anaesthetic.

I was totally zen about it, went for the x-ray, took it back to the dentist, got my letter from the hospital telling me to ring up and make my appointment. And then I chickened out. As in big, massive, sobbing, wobbly.

Nothing hurts so apart from the annoying regularity of food getting stuck in there it's fine right?

Dentist appointments I've made: 1
Amount of times vomited today: 3

I'm having a coffee then going

They won't do anything now will they?

Bleddy well done you!

No, they won't do anything today.
They'll just have a look and decide what needs doing.

Seriously impressed dude. You is nails.

Shitting
My
Self
It's a tie between the dentist and the Wrath of Stratters, I'm still not sure which is worse.

I had three injections today and root canal...here in Korea they put a black towel over your entire face, with a hole for your mouth

Good luck...

Due to this whole towel on your face malarkey I ended up smacking the dentist over the head...

I was trying to get him to stop, I had no idea where his head was so when I put my hand up I almost knocked him into to wide open mouth! Not that my mouth is that big mind you but you get what I mean

Good luck, lovely. And bloody well done xxx

I'm in the waiting room. I can't get back out with out going back past the receptionist!

And she knows it.