Or do I enter the valley of death alone?

I am scared shitless of dentists.. but I am going dammit. I NEED work done, it has to be done, period.


On the outside I am going dentist, but I am going.

However when you look closer it looks more like...

fear not, eadwine, for i have been to the valley of death many times and lo, i have returned to speak of terrors, albeit with an aching jaw and rubbery anesthetized lips!

i have a good dentist now and i'm still scared when i have to go to the dentist's office. i grip the exam chair arms like i'm hanging over a bottomless pit, i pop a sweat, my back gets so tense that i almost have muscle spasms and i press my head into the headrest of the chair in a lame attempt to back away as far as possible. it's horrible and i feel like i get irrational over the whole thing, but i can't help it!

this is what happens when a grouchy, rough old man is turned loose in the mouth of an innocent child with sharp implements! i've been traumatized, i tell you!

That's what I do too...

I also find it hard to stay with the mouth opened for such a ridiculous long time...

Rubbery lips are funny... it's interesting to eat afterwords.

As for pain, I never had any tooth pain although I had almost any tooth worked on.

I don't like going either. Nobody does--especially if it's been awhile. I just went to the hygienist a few days ago, by the time he was done doing his thing, I couldn't feel my hands (completely numb), I realized I was sitting there--tense the whole time. He's really nice though and so is the dentist, it helps.....a little.

Stupidest thing.. I had a dentist in the former place I lived in, and she was extremely nice, very good. If this swap does not work out I am going back to her. I will travel, oh well. It is worth it.

But even her I am scared of again, over time it gets time to build up. Regular check ups are every six months.. I am contemplating to just go four times a year, to not allow the fear to build up again.

Back when I had the first big treatment series I went once a month, then this then that had to be done. By the time it was almost done I wasn't scared anymore. I was able to walk in there, sit down and open my mouth. I even dared to get a small cavity done without a shot. Amazing and I did it, and it hardly even hurt.


My childhood experience was such that the dentist, no matter what needed to be done, even nothing at all, made me leave the office with a bloody mouth. All. The. Time. And back when we had school dentists too, so.. you get your own two checkups each year and then oh goody, go to the school one too.


Guess who my school dentist was? Exactly.



As Adrian, I never had any pain, and ALL my teeth are worked on. I am even stupid since I no longer have my wisdom teeth. All four of those are gone. Done by miss nice dentist.

She was a Belgian by the way.. so funny. They speak Dutch with this weird little accent that makes everything they say sound funny.

It would be like: Okayeee.. lessussseee that little tootthiee therereeeee. Oh, that needeee workkk

*laughs*

Honest.. I have had times that I was laughing before I even got in the chair

There ARE good ones out there.. you just have to search with a magnifying glass..

Mind.. when I tell people I have to go, I always say this:


I sit on the chair and open my mouth. He goes in with the toolbox and I will grab him by the nuts and say: "SYou hurts shme, anf I sfueeze!"


Gets them hollering every time hehe.

Ok .. I CAN find humor in it all. thank goodness

Then you chose the wrong gender for your dentist... you just lost the advantage.

Not like I EVER held a dentist by the nuts..

I WISH I would have done that though.. in the past. But yeah.

Did you go yet?

RAAA I just had a bitchy conversation on the phone with my dentist.
(he's a man, but bitchy )
18 dec new appointment for something under the gums (eeek)
And in jan. half yearly check up.
He also wants to replace two old silverfillings then.
I said no, if it's not necessary (I have no pain, nothing) then I don't want to replace them for white fillings. I don't have the money to do unnecessary things, and I don't plan on paying for his skiholiday...
He got pissed, but it's my mouth, my money.

Standing up for yourself is hard
But I'm glad I did it.

Plain wrap.. apparently I never noticed your post due to the stupid post mark red bug. You can read all about the entire story in the bloggie link

Eresh, it really depends on how old the silver fillings are. Usually they get replaced after about 6 years, wear and tear and all that. Those white fillings are fun too.. you get a bleepity thing in your mouth