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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2005-11-16 02:22 pm
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I have a dentist's appointment.

Dentists scare the shit out of me. Seriously, I thought chemotherapy was interesting and wish i could see video of my spleen being removed, but dentists? *shudder*

But it needs to be done.

Now I just need to get over there and pick up paperwork for financial aid.

Mt new dentist is female, and graduated in 1999.
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Is it safe?

[identity profile] fimbrethil.livejournal.com 2005-11-16 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so glad you are finally seeing someone. I get the fear. Liam was terrified too. I hope you can get past your fears so they she can do what she needs to. Best of luck to you, sweetie.

[identity profile] jennkitty.livejournal.com 2005-11-16 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
i would suggest to ask her to describe what she's doing while she's working on you. it should interest you in a technical aspect. while i don't *enjoy* the dentist, it's easier if you go in with a "hmm, how interesting" frame of mind. doesn't hurt if she's hot, either.

[identity profile] arib.livejournal.com 2005-11-16 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'm the only person left in the world who doesn't fear the dentist. It's not my favorite place to be, though.

Good luck, hope the procedure is as pain-free as possible.

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2005-11-16 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Dentistfear is strong, even as an adult. Just about the only thing that beats it, for me, is going to the optometrist - the actual tests are innocuous, but they set off all the reflexes that tell you you're about to be blinded. (Which, in the environment in which our reflexes were formed, was pretty much a death sentence.)

I have an appointment myself for this Friday - an extraction of a bad molar - and I hesitated before making it. It needs to be done, but...

[identity profile] arib.livejournal.com 2005-11-17 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, so.

Apparently when I was three, my mom took me to the dentist because of a canker sore or somesuch. He took a look at it and promptly zapped it with some Anbesol or some such. So, my first exposure to the dentist was making pain go away, probably friendlier than most other folks' first.

[identity profile] lysana.livejournal.com 2005-11-17 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
No, you aren't the only person left. I like the dentist. I just dislike taking the time to go.

[identity profile] bunnybutt.livejournal.com 2005-11-17 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Don't be shy about asking for the N02 if it's something you tolerate well. And don't be shy about asking them to turn it up if you're still wracked with anxiety. Take a headphone device in case they don't provide them, and a nice soothing tape (I kind of like Old and in the Way for denistry, personally. Remember that your dentist can prescribe drugs, and it sounds like a pre-procedure valium might not be out of order for you, with some post-procedure vicodin to follow. Sound like you might even be a candidate for the twilight "sleep" dentistry advertized on the radio the last few years. Good luck!

[identity profile] aurictech.livejournal.com 2005-11-17 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Umm, NO2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_dioxide) would be bad. N2O (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide), OTOH, might well be called for.
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[personal profile] kshandra 2005-11-17 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
If they offer any form of full sedation (somehow doubtful for the original exam, but probably even odds when they get around to the extractions), and we can afford it, we'll go for it. I'll also see if there's any way I can be in the exam room with him.

[identity profile] bunnybutt.livejournal.com 2005-11-17 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
My dentist (who totally converted me from a dentist hater to a dentist not-minder) does and will give me nitrous (sp? I can't spell my drugs anymore, do I have a problem?) for the exam portion. I just hate that scrapey-pokey-sticky thing. And adding nitrous for lite sedation (as opposed to anasthesia) should be pretty cheap.

If gridlore ends up hating this dentist and is willing to travel to Oakland, I can recommend a kick-ass dentist that would *definitely* give him at least nitrous so long as he doesn't have a history of a bad reaction to it. (and no one who has had a bad reaction to nitrous ever seems to want it again anyway). I'm sure Yo would second the recommendation, and he's had a lot more serious work done than I have.

[identity profile] benkenobigal.livejournal.com 2005-11-17 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I get tension headaches like a bitch whenever I go to the dentist. I feel for you. Hope everything is quick and painless!! :)

[identity profile] nilita.livejournal.com 2005-11-18 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
I fall asleep in the dentist's chair; I even find a root canal quite relaxing. Yeah, I'm a sick-o. Speaking of chemotherapy, we'll have to x-change chemo stories some day. Not fun.

Oh. And fuck cancer!
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