Thread: Terrified of the dentist.

Well, not the dentist, just MY dentist. So I was really scared when I went in for my cleaning today. It just seems like he always has to find something wrong. As I was waiting in the chair waiting for him to come in, I heard a guy scream in the room next to mine. It was awful. I mean it was like, guy-getting-tortured-by-Freddy-Krueger awful. And then I hear my dentist say, "Sorry. The infection was really bad. I had to take it out," and then the guy was like, "You're a terrible dentist." I couldn't agree more. I mean, he's a nice guy and all, but as a dentist, he scares the hell out of me.

Luckily there was nothing wrong with me. He said I had very good teeth. My wisdom teeth have grown in but they're not causing any problems so I'm not going to take them out.

So does anyone else have a fear of the dentist? Or am I just a wuss?

It's never bothered me. I had braces for four years, so I got used to someone prodding around in my mouth.
I guess I've never had anything too serious done. Well, actually, I had 5 teeth pulled out when I was 13 because they had no adults underneath them and they were sinking back into the gums. But I was under a general anaesthetic, so I just remember waking up choking on cotton balls and drooling blood.

Yes, I am too, Dreamworx....I would rather give birth to a basketball player that go to the dentist...lol I hate it! Hate it!

Ugh, Fox that sounds gross. I had to get a gingival graft last year because some of the gum on one of my teeth was sinking, so I had this nice mouth sergeon lady take some gum from the roof of my mouth and stitch it onto the gum on the tooth. Nasty, right? I was much, much more confortable with this than having my teeth cleaned by my dentist.

My dentist when I was growing up was this super chipper lady who made me want to hit things. "Now open up wide! That's a good girl, just a touch wider. That's it! Well done, you're doing so good." I'm 18 at the time, and she's talking like this. Heard her talk the same way to my mum. Hideous.

People like that should be restricted to only interacting with children, or kept in asylums.

Hahaha, I'd get annoyed by that too. I'm okay with chipper people, just not the ones that overdo it. I feel bad saying this about my dentist now, because he's an extremely nice guy, but I can't help it. He's got this really freaky, hair raising voice. He looks even more freaky when he puts the mask and latex gloves on.

So sorry Dr. Young. I'm sure I would like you so much more outside of the dental clinic.

A trip to the Dentist makes my blood pressure go up, and I normally have good pressure. I had to have a root canal done last year, my first ever. Yuck! The guy who did it was wonderful, but it was awful to have to sit there so long with someone in your mouth.

My Dentist is Lithuanian, I think. Definitely foreign.

He's nice enough. Calls me 'Thomas' which will never not be weird, but I like the guy so his fingers remain unbitten.

I remember once, around three years ago, I had a filling which had been infected because of the shoddy work of a previous dentist (now, he was a complete prick, spoke to my mother like crap so we just moved dentists - thankyou NHS) and they had to pull it out, along with the tooth. My mouth numb, my dentist, a female now, very nice, got to work. She was young, so when things started to go wrong, she called in the professional, the pro, who got his prongs and started working, telling me to keep my eyes open so they knew I was still concious or something. It was, and still is, the most painful thing I've ever experienced. The numbness wore off and I couldn't chew for two days.

But I learnt from it. I try my best to keep my teeth healthy, even if past troubles as a child haunt their appearance

Another little note, in the UK, I think after Vets, Dentists are one of the most common of professions to cause suicide - probably because everybody dislikes them. Poor people.

The only thing that scares me when I go to the dentist here is how much it's going to cost me since I don't have dental insurance.

Oh boy! I can understand that. Even with insurance it's just sooo expensive!

Is there a reason you can't change your dentist? Insurance? And yeah, I don't much like going even to a dentist I like. I have a lot of sensitive spots and a cleaning is something I am putting off, again, though I will have to grin and bear it before the end of the year.

I've had the same dentist since I was in kindergarten. I've tried to convince my mom to switch but she always says no.

My dentist is great, and I never had any trouble with going to the dentist until really recently, when I needed some fillings, and apparently I was acting very panicky, because he stopped and told me I needed a sedation dentist... Talk about expensive.

I remember sitting in a chair briefly because as soon as I bit my dentist, she wanted nothing else to do with me. The next dentist I went to was Dr. Guy (hehe) and he was nice, but I still didn't want him anywhere near my mouth. My mom actually got a minor filling done without being numbed by him, guess that's a good sign? Either way I hate going to the dentist.