Can I just say that I hate, hate, hate going to the dentist? I didn’t always hate it, not like I do now, but over the years I have developed a dental phobia, a big nasty one. I think it started the first time I had a wisdom tooth removed and a root canal performed in the same visit. Yeah, I was told later by more than one dentist that it is not a good idea to perform those procedures on the same side of the mouth on the same day. I was hopped up on novocaine and nitrous oxide, a real spine tingling combo. I have learned from that experience that it is best to go to an oral surgeon for major extractions and I wish all of my dental experiences could be so wonderful. You see my oral surgeon puts me to sleep via intravenous valium and I never know what’s happening.
One question I have always wanted to know the answer to is why can’t they put you to sleep for every dental experience? I mean let’s face it going to the dentist always feels like surgery to me. I put off going to the dentist, I think subconsciously so that the tooth will get so bad I have to have it surgically extracted and I can go to sleep for that, it still hurts but I don’t have to deal with the consciousness of what’s going on.
I mean who wants to deal with this guy? That is not a picture of my actual dentist, but they all look the same don’t they, hiding behind that mask? Coming at you with giant picks and drills and painful poking devices there has got to be a better way.
Then after they make their diagnosis via big plastic xray thing shoved into your mouth and a lead jacket they say it’s time to get some work done. Would you like novocaine. Well no I don’t want a 2 foot needle shoved into my gum, but I would prefer it to the excruciating pain I will have to endure without it. See the thing for me is that what goes on in my mind is far worse than what is going on in my mouth and no matter how much novocaine I am given, I can still feel whats happening, this bothers me. One time a dentist of mine had to literally squirt the drug into the opening he had drilled into my tooth because I could not stop feeling it. He must have loved me.
Anyway, all of this comes up today because I have a bad tooth, a really rotten tooth in the way back and it is starting to annoy me and it’s a tooth that has been worked on before. You know what, I’m not sure you could even call it a tooth anymore, it’s just what’s left of it and is filled with amalgam, yeah I know that’s bad and somehow poisoned but like I said the dentist office is a place I really don’t want to visit.
So I reluctantly made and appointment to go have it looked at and to decide my options, because if it’s really bad I am going to have it pulled, good root canals around here cost $3000.00 as opposed to $550.00 to have it extracted, so there’s the money thing to take into consideration, but I’m getting ahead of myself. I obsessed about this so much that this morning I woke up and mentally prepared to go to the dentist at 9am. I was nervous the whole way and thinking about what he would say and on and on and on. I arrived early so I could fill out the forms and I was proud to have even made it to the front door. So was I surprised when I went to open it and it was locked. All the lights were off and there wasn’t a car in the parking lot, WTF? So I waited and waited until 9:10am and then left. Well wouldn’t you know it, my appointment is tomorrow, not today. Holy Hell Batman I have to re-run this whole scene tomorrow!
Ohhh nooooo! That’s not funny…getting yourself all primed and it being the wrong day. I used to have a major fear of the dentist until I found my new dentist. I also find that popping a Xanax before my appointment helps. 😉 I hate the pain…but I hate the sound of all the equipment more so. Even when I have my teeth cleaned at the dentist I cringe – all the spinning and whirring. Ugh. Hope it goes okay for you tomorrow!
I get the chills everytime I go to the dentist and just got them again reading your post
Ohhh I hate the dentist too!! Its so scary.. I used to be ok but then I Remember my mum having a bad experience and she was in alot of pain! Worse than childbirth she said! And thats about when I Started hating the dentist.!
Good luck!!
There’s nothing worse than being prepared for an unpleasant moment and then realising the appointment was wrong or delayed at the last minute. I hate dentists too. But for the wisdow teeth, I had it removed by a dental surgeon, so I didn’t see anything of the operation. I think I would have fainted if I saw that in real.
2LD: Yeah, wrong day thing totally threw me, but when I went today I was already over the fear. The tooth is cracked so I will have to have it surgically removed which is great for me because they put me to sleep! Yippy! Can you imagine being happy about a dental surgery?
Houston: Sorry about making you think about the dentist. At least When I went today all he did was take an xray and tell me it had to be extracted, not too much poking and prodding. Thank God!
Queenbitch: The dentist is infinitely worse than having a baby, because after labor you have something to be really happy about! In my experience the dentist leads to more and more pain. The teeth I am having problems with now are ones that I had worked on years ago and now are just worse than before. Ugh!
Modobs: You know it’s kind of weird, since I was prepared yesterday, going today was not as bad. I too love having my wisdom teeth extracted, (well except for that one) because I went to the oral surgeon who put me to sleep. Looks like I will be having this tooth extracted as well because it is cracked and cannot be repaired. So it’s off to sleep for me. Doing that next Thursday!
I was going to tell you that they have sedation dentistry where they put you to sleep regardless, but you get knocked out anyway!
Yay for you, lol!
kristinamarina! Thanks for the thought 🙂 I have been to dentist’s who “give sedation”, but they don’t put you to sleep, at least not around here. I live in a rural area, so they would give me an anti-anxiety pill, but not put me to sleep! That just won’t do it for me! 😉
Awww…so how was it? I hate the dentist too, and it’s always the hygenists who mess around with those pokey metal things, and I swear, those hygenists ACTUALLY stab my gums with the metal pokey thing so it bleeds, THEN they tell me my gums bleed because I don’t floss enough…WHAT!?!?! Bitches…
Hi Romi! You make a good point about the hygenists, a friend of mine was telling me a story about those bitches yesterday, they seem to be on the sadistic side and oh so judgmental, makes you want to slap them or throw them in a dental chair and get out the poking implements. I have not seen on in a while because I have “major dental” work that rates higher than regular cleanings, plus my teeth are pretty clean! Go Figure! Guess I must floss properly!
I have to have the tooth surgically extracted because it is cracked. So I get to see my good friend who gives me valium and puts me to sleep, but it’s gonna hurt like Hell after! Will update after the surgery!
i might have to have a root canal i hate the dentist too last time i went the dentist dident wait for the injection to kick in i felt everthing it was awful
I hate going to dentist. I hate going to the dentist because he told me 5 years ago that I had to have 4 impacted wisdom teeth pulled. I also had an bad experience with the oral surgeon when I had braces on my teeth in 6th grade. When I had braces on I had to have 4 teeth extracted. I had laughing gas to prevent feeling the 4 teeth going extracted. I was talking doing the whole extraction. Even though I had laughing gas I managed to talk while my 4 teeth were being extracted.