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Listening to music during treatment?

  • 19-10-2011 1:25pm
    #1
    allgirlz
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    I have to go for an intensive clean next week with a periodontist, it will take about an hour and I will have local anaesthetic. I am a nervous patient and would be happy if i could bring in my own music on my ipod, and pop the earphones in while he is working, just to take my mind off what is going on. Will that be ok or do dentists prefer you to be able to hear them all the time? I don't imagine he will have much to tell me while he is working away?


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  • #2
    quaalude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭quaalude


    allgirlz wrote: »
    I have to go for an intensive clean next week with a periodontist, it will take about an hour and I will have local anaesthetic. I am a nervous patient and would be happy if i could bring in my own music on my ipod, and pop the earphones in while he is working, just to take my mind off what is going on. Will that be ok or do dentists prefer you to be able to hear them all the time? I don't imagine he will have much to tell me while he is working away?

    I brought in a CD before when I was nervous, and the dentist didn't mind at all putting it on for me. (I don't bother with it any more as I'm not nervous about the dentist now).
    I was talking with the dental assistant and she told me I was the only patient who brought in CD's - all other patients who want to listen to music bring an iPod and pop in headphones.
    So my dentist doesn't mind it anyway!


  • #3
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    allgirlz wrote: »
    I have to go for an intensive clean next week with a periodontist, it will take about an hour and I will have local anaesthetic. I am a nervous patient and would be happy if i could bring in my own music on my ipod, and pop the earphones in while he is working, just to take my mind off what is going on. Will that be ok or do dentists prefer you to be able to hear them all the time? I don't imagine he will have much to tell me while he is working away?

    Most dentists don't mind at all...
    Sometimes it gets annoying if you have to keep asking someone to open their mouth and they can't hear you....
    A good compromise is to turn it down a little or put in just one ear-piece or to just keep your mouth open...!


  • #4
    Bearcat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Bearcat


    Oral Surgeon wrote: »
    Most dentists don't mind at all...
    Sometimes it gets annoying if you have to keep asking someone to open their mouth and they can't hear you....
    QUOTE]

    didnt happen in my dentist...she shoved a big rubber bung into one side of my mouth.......i was as open as a gate.

    Likewise putting a rubber sheath via a clamp i think to protect the area where she was working , i liked.

    Hearing joe duffy wasnt an option......i listen to the white album by the beatles to pass the time.


  • #5
    allgirlz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭allgirlz


    Thanks a million, I will bring my ipod along with me, anything to help distract from what is actually going on! I am not looking forwrd to an hour in the chair. Has anyone gotten this deep clean done? Or can any dentists advise what the procedure is like? I will be given a local anaesthetic.


  • #6
    quaalude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭quaalude


    Bearcat wrote: »

    Likewise putting a rubber sheath via a clamp i think to protect the area where she was working , i liked.

    Hearing joe duffy wasnt an option......i listen to the white album by the beatles to pass the time.

    I hear that - my dental hygienist has some talk radio on in her room. Blargh. I try and ignore it for the 15 mins I'm there.

    "Abbey Road" is my usual choice when I'm in the dentist chair :)


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  • #7
    ciarakitten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭ciarakitten


    Just noticed your posts here and wanted to say hi.

    Im having a surgical proceedure done tomorrow morning.

    It will involve a local anaesthetic (lidocaine) and an IV sedation (proprobol) and it will take approximately 1.5 hours.

    The surgeon has told me that I can listen to music whilst I drift off into a comfortable relaxing asleep. I think he meant listen on my head phones so Ill bring them.

    A nice surgeon/dentist/ therapist really can take the scary factor out of the treatment. Dont be embarrassed to ask your medical practitioner if its ok. Afterall, you are paying them good money and its really important that you feel comfortable. Not just for you, but for them too. Its all too easy to go elsewhere and your dentist loses a valuable lifetime client.

    So speak up and remember, your medical practitioner has feelings too and wants you to be comfortable. If they dont, go elsewhere. Its nice to be nice, but its expensive to be nasty.


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