Rubbish teeth -scared of dentist -scared of cost .Please hold my hand

[SrStanislaus]

I havent had any dental treatment for years.Im scared of the dentist -hate all the smells and sounds etc. I had to have an emergency extraction about 10 years ago and that was the last time I have been anywhere near a dentist.
Of course , now there is a considerable cost element to any visit but Im being driven distraction.

My teeth are all crumbing and I soon will have nothing to chew with. The front ones are holding up only because of ancient crowns.Perhaps the existing teeth have been made worse by the fact I have had chemotherapy -maybe ....I dont know.

Just tonight I ate a piece of cooked chicken and a bit of tooth came away.
I need help urgently.
Can anyone give me concrete advice about potential cost etc.

Thats when/if I ever find a dentist that will take me -AND is sympathetic to my scaredness /not too horrified by state of my teeth.

All I can add is..I feel your pain...I too hate the dentist...good luck...but you SHOULD really get it all seen to, and it won't be half as bad as you imagine(that is what people say to me- and they are right!)

aww you poor thing

I'm no fan of the dentist either, but the longer you leave it the worse it gets. Yopu need to find a dentist that's nice, ask friends for personal recommendations. If you can't get a that then phone a few local ones and say to the receptionist that you've very nervous and see what they say. If the receptionist is lovely and sympathetic, then good chance the dentist will be too

If you can get an NHS one, then there will be a maximum charge for one course of treatment. It used to be about £190 when I had to pay for some crowns a couple of years ago.

There's a website that you can do a postcode check for NHS dentists that are taking on new patients.

Good luck

try here

DH recently went to the dentist after more than ten years of putting it off through fear of dentists and cost. We had to go private and were terrified of the cost, expecting it to run into the thousands.

He was forced to go after DS knocked out one of his bottom teeth. In the end he needed two extractions, a denture for the bottom tooth and a mould to fit any further ones into (gums bad and teeth now loose apparently). Plus scale and polish and general check up.

It came to around £500 in total. Around £300 for all the work for the denture and £90 for each extraction. Don't get me wrong, that's a lot of money to us, but after everything we'd heard about private dentistry we were truly expecting it would run into the thousands and he'd have to decline treatment.

I don't know how this sits with you, but it certainly wasn't as bad as we expected. Plus DH found the dentist really good and isn't scared any more.