Does the Dentist Make you Cry?

jimmidy_cricket

I was at the dentist yesterday for the first time in about four or five years and had to get a filling...have to get about six but anyway just got the one done yesterday.

When she started drilling I started crying...not mad wailing or anything, just kinda shallow breathing (would hyperventalting be the right word?) and rolled down my cheeks, my nose started to get runny aswell.

So I was wondering, does this happen many people? Or am I just a blubbering mess who should be on valium before I leave the house?!

I read in a thread somewhere about the worst job and a dental nurse wrote that they had to clean up pee and puke after some people. Are patients really as bad as that?..Makes me feel more normal if thats the case.

So peeps.. how do you fare in the dentist chair?

xzanti

Well Im usually grand at the dentist but there was one time I went to a new guy and I was convinced he was drilling the wrong tooth .. I put my hand up to stop him and he ate the head off me... I was mortified

Oral Slang

No, have to say have never reacted like that... Really don't like the dentist but I just grin & bare it! I do yelp a bit when they drill & you can feel it on sensitive nerves, but I don't remember ever crying!

Kinetic^

I used to get freaked out when I was a kid but I've to see my dentist every 3 weeks because of my Braces and he's really nice....but he doesn't give me a lollipop anymore

jimmidy_cricket

Ah Sh!te, I was kinda hoping people would say "Oh yeah, that happens me all the time" she must've thought I was such a freak. God, cringe, I wouldn't be half as embarresd if the dentist was a drill weilding maniac, but she was so nice and so was the nurse, makes it all the more ridiculous

The OP

jimmidy_cricket wrote:

I was at the dentist yesterday for the first time in about four or five years and had to get a filling...have to get about six but anyway just got the one done yesterday.

When she started drilling I started crying...not mad wailing or anything, just kinda shallow breathing (would hyperventalting be the right word?) and rolled down my cheeks, my nose started to get runny aswell.

So I was wondering, does this happen many people? Or am I just a blubbering mess who should be on valium before I leave the house?!

I read in a thread somewhere about the worst job and a dental nurse wrote that they had to clean up pee and puke after some people. Are patients really as bad as that?..Makes me feel more normal if thats the case.

So peeps.. how do you fare in the dentist chair?

That's only ever happened one person I know - my kid sister when she was 5.

ciaran76

Last time i went he gave me 3 injections and I swore I could still feel the pain. When he was finished my shirt was so wet from sweat I had to go home have a shower and go back to work. I really don't like having to visit the dentist at all.

ravenhead

ciaran76 wrote:

Last time i went he gave me 3 injections and I swore I could still feel the pain. When he was finished my shirt was so wet from sweat I had to go home have a shower and go back to work. I really don't like having to visit the dentist at all.

You're Lucky!! I had a dentist that once gave me so much anaesthetic that he froze my eye!!!

ciaran76

ravenhead wrote:

You're Lucky!! I had a dentist that once gave me so much anaesthetic that he froze my eye!!!

Oh my God !!! :eek:

What was it like ?

brown*eyed*girl

Not a fan of the dentist myself. You just feel so vulnerable lying there with your mouth wide open and someone peering in. I also hate the smell of those gloves they wear that I feel like getting sick. Wouldn't go far as to say I'd cry but do get very nervous going to the dentist and am very relieved when I'm finished that appointment.

Ravenhead LOL you have to tell us what it was like with a numb eye! The numbness is mad when you try eat isn't it. Also when you're walking around town with the numbness you feel like everyone knows and can see you're big swollen jaw.

Femelade

havent been to the dentist in ages, but i remember i used to have fience problems breathing....oh i hated it.

Dave!

I haven't been to the dentist in years... and I intend to keep up that trend I'll loose my teeth to decay sooner than let someone knock them out with a chisel!!!

Nah I'll probably have to go back soon... not looking forward to it. The dentist is the worst thing in the world, ever.

BadAcidStudios

why do they always have to have great looking assistants.

There you are lying down with stupid glasses on with your mouth wide open, making the most stupid face imaginable. Then everytime you are asked something your failed attempt at speech makes you laugh so much on the inside that you get the worst case of giggles.

Then, as if things couldnt get anymore degrading, this beautiful blonde will start sucking all the spit out of your mouth. The more you try to get your tongue out of the way the more it seems like you are playing a game with her, trying to cover the end with your tongue.

Then when everything is finally over, you sit up and wipe all the crap from your face while sitting on the edge of the chair while trying to be all cool again. Your face still numb and you try to muster a smile as you leave. (This smile is always impossible)

You leave wondering if they are they are gonna have a great laugh behind your back (of course they wont) also, wondering if shes gonna tell her mates down the pub about the total goon she had in today ( of course she wont)

:-)

meowCat

I really hate going to the dentist. When I was a child there was this horrible, unfeeling guy with absolutely no patience - and I cried every time.

But now, the worst thing ever happened to me was that I fainted after getting an injection. But it was early in the morning and the dentist explained to me that this apparently happens to many people.

jimmidy_cricket

BadAcidStudios wrote:

You leave wondering if they are they are gonna have a great laugh behind your back (of course they wont) also, wondering if shes gonna tell her mates down the pub about the total goon she had in today ( of course she wont)

:-)

Haha. I never pictured it like that, the nurse wasn't hot but if it was a hot male nurse I suppose I would've pulled myself together. Thank you BadAcid, I'm in for another apointment for 4 fillings and this time I'll picture Brad Pitt sucking the spit out of my mouth. Woo hoo bring it on!

Kiera

They make me nervous more than anything. Not because I’m afraid of the pain but because I’m afraid they’ll tell me I need loads of work done. Was at the dentist 2 weeks ago and I have lovely teeth, so he says

My friend was told she needed 2 root canals that would cost 4,000. Now that would make me cry!

BadAcidStudios

Your right there kiera. There is always the doubt at the back of your mind whether you really need this treatment. You just have to trust them but it is hard when it cost so much.

I went to get a filling once, He Scaled my gums without even telling me or asking me. I just presumed he was doing normal routine stuff that didnt cost extra.
jesus, i nearly had a heart attack when he told me how much i owed him.
Also, the filling he did was not the solution to my problem and i had to getb root canal treatment. Fecking expensive but better than having a tooth pulled out. pissed off cos i really look after my teeth

phantom_lord

i never understood the whole fear of dentists. I was worried about them. Then again I never got any fillings so maybe that helped.

ravenhead

ciaran76 wrote:

Oh my God !!! :eek:

What was it like ?

It was soooo weird, I was sitting on the chair & started to get a feeling like my eye was turning into my nose. then the nurse starting staring at me, realy weirdly, & she just went 'Look at that' to the dentist, he started laughing!! My whole right eye hard turned up into the corner of my nose!!!! It was mad, I was trying to blink & thought that I was, of course all i was doing was making it worse & my eye started 'leaking', now i've got mascara streaming down one side of my face & an eye that looks like something out of the Exorcist!! The bloody fool just said 'Oopps, a bit too much I think'!! & tells me it'll wear off in a couple of hours! I had to drive all the way from Tipperary into Limerick back to work .... imagine if I'd been pulled by the garda's!!!

jimmidy_cricket

ravenhead wrote:

It was soooo weird, I was sitting on the chair & started to get a feeling like my eye was turning into my nose. then the nurse starting staring at me, realy weirdly, & she just went 'Look at that' to the dentist, he started laughing!! My whole right eye hard turned up into the corner of my nose!!!! It was mad, I was trying to blink & thought that I was, of course all i was doing was making it worse & my eye started 'leaking', now i've got mascara streaming down one side of my face & an eye that looks like something out of the Exorcist!! The bloody fool just said 'Oopps, a bit too much I think'!! & tells me it'll wear off in a couple of hours! I had to drive all the way from Tipperary into Limerick back to work .... imagine if I'd been pulled by the garda's!!!

That must've been awful, but your after making me laugh so much so thanks.

Phantom Lord; you're lucky nevr to have had any fillings, its a horrible experience but I count myself lucky never experiencing root canal...it sounds unbearable.

I'd love to hear from a dentist as to whats the worst patient they've ever had?

Femelade

ravenhead wrote:

It was soooo weird, I was sitting on the chair & started to get a feeling like my eye was turning into my nose. then the nurse starting staring at me, realy weirdly, & she just went 'Look at that' to the dentist, he started laughing!! My whole right eye hard turned up into the corner of my nose!!!! It was mad, I was trying to blink & thought that I was, of course all i was doing was making it worse & my eye started 'leaking', now i've got mascara streaming down one side of my face & an eye that looks like something out of the Exorcist!! The bloody fool just said 'Oopps, a bit too much I think'!! & tells me it'll wear off in a couple of hours! I had to drive all the way from Tipperary into Limerick back to work .... imagine if I'd been pulled by the garda's!!!

lol , omg that must have been very dangerous, driving like that though.
very sympathetic dentist..

Kermitt

Went to dentist 6 months ago for first time in ages as a damaged a back tooth, Turned out it was bad and had to be pulled.. actuall drilled, pulled, broken, drilled some more, pulled again, cracked, broken again, twisted and finally pulled out. I was too afraid to display emotion of any kind. Dentist said I was "very brave" (I'm 21 not 7!!) & it was worst extraction he'd done in 15 years (made me feel better how??). Had 2 stitches in my gum for a week and had to rinse with salt water for 2 weeks. Thinks I need to get a filling now.. should be a piece of piss after that!!

ravenhead

Femmy wrote:

lol , omg that must have been very dangerous, driving like that though.
very sympathetic dentist..

I know!! I'm just glad I wasn't getting a tooth out or something like that cause he probably would've taken the wrong bloody one!!