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Does anyone still post on here? If so i could really do with some advice.
So last year idk august time i chipped my back tooth on a piece of pork crackling. It was fine for a few months and then in February this year, a quarter of my tooth broke off while i was eating and now has a horrible hole in.
Heres the kicker, I'm absolutely F******** terrified of the dentist. I haven't been in about 7 years. I had a bad experience in which my old dentist probed my tooth that I didn't realise had a deep cavity in, touched the nerve and sent a horrible electric shock pain down my neck and all down my body on the right hand side, he didn't just do it once, oh no, he did it 3 times, electric shock pain every time he did it, my whole body jolted, resulting in an infection in my tooth that I had to get antibiotics for and then had to get the tooth extracted. The last treatment I had done was a filling on the affected tooth that is currently cracked, it's not painful, but I can't stop playing with it because I know its there. There's a dentist right at the bottom of my road so either a 10 minute walk or 20 second drive away and I cannot bring myself to book myself in because I'm scared of the new dentist doing the same thing. My sis went after a long time to this same dentist and she said they're some of the loveliest people I'll ever meet, she had her first ever root canal and was fine, couldn't feel a single thing, I want to book myself in for an appointment and get this sorted, but my anxiety just won't let me do it.
My dental phobia is that bad that even talking about it, thinking about the procedures or just a general examination and xray make me have a panic attack. Even looking at a picture of the dentist chair gives me heart palpitations, the way I feel when I look at a picture of the chair or imagine myself sitting in it being brave and exposed is how you'd feel when you're on a hospital gurney strapped down and unable to move. It's ruining my mental health and my life. I can't cope with it anymore.
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with it? Do i need help first or shall I just go straight in at the deep end and put my big girl pants on?
I'm so scared and fed up.
So last year idk august time i chipped my back tooth on a piece of pork crackling. It was fine for a few months and then in February this year, a quarter of my tooth broke off while i was eating and now has a horrible hole in.
Heres the kicker, I'm absolutely F******** terrified of the dentist. I haven't been in about 7 years. I had a bad experience in which my old dentist probed my tooth that I didn't realise had a deep cavity in, touched the nerve and sent a horrible electric shock pain down my neck and all down my body on the right hand side, he didn't just do it once, oh no, he did it 3 times, electric shock pain every time he did it, my whole body jolted, resulting in an infection in my tooth that I had to get antibiotics for and then had to get the tooth extracted. The last treatment I had done was a filling on the affected tooth that is currently cracked, it's not painful, but I can't stop playing with it because I know its there. There's a dentist right at the bottom of my road so either a 10 minute walk or 20 second drive away and I cannot bring myself to book myself in because I'm scared of the new dentist doing the same thing. My sis went after a long time to this same dentist and she said they're some of the loveliest people I'll ever meet, she had her first ever root canal and was fine, couldn't feel a single thing, I want to book myself in for an appointment and get this sorted, but my anxiety just won't let me do it.
My dental phobia is that bad that even talking about it, thinking about the procedures or just a general examination and xray make me have a panic attack. Even looking at a picture of the dentist chair gives me heart palpitations, the way I feel when I look at a picture of the chair or imagine myself sitting in it being brave and exposed is how you'd feel when you're on a hospital gurney strapped down and unable to move. It's ruining my mental health and my life. I can't cope with it anymore.
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with it? Do i need help first or shall I just go straight in at the deep end and put my big girl pants on?
I'm so scared and fed up.