Have you been to the Dentist recently?

lastlaugh wrote: »

I'll have to take your word on that!

Although I'm pretty sure no drills, forceps or any type of medieval implements are needed down there.

They clamp your hooha and shove metal implements up it.

No, and I have a large lump of dental cement left on my teeth since I was 13 which was meant to be removed ages ago. I'm not giving him €50 for it though!

Only when dentists start offering treatment for a reasonable rate will I return.

When I was starting college; there's a dentist's college beside TCD that needed people for students to work on (students about to graduate lol) so yearly i'd get a checkup/scale and polish. I'd go there once a year until they told me politely to stop mooching. My teet always feel weird afterwards. Seems the recession hit them bad, a few years ago it was hard getting an appointment but the last time i went (last year) i walked in and I was seen straight away. Think it was about €60.

I associate positively with dentists because when I was about 7 or so, and getting a checkup/scale a polish, the dentist had large breasts and the way it worked out the back of my head rested on them. I know it'll never happen again but hope does pop into my head every time i go :pac:

Went about 8 months ago, got a filling. A bit of the tooth surrounding said filling has since broken off, but it doesn't hurt yet so unless it does it'll be the next yearly checkup before I get it seen to.

A relative of mine went about 5 years ago for the first time in about 30. The dentist had one look and said "jaysus, you're mouth is like Fallujah!". Got a lot of teeth pulled that day, hasn't gone back since.

Me, I went about 6 months ago, a simple clean makes a huge difference.

Went a couple of years ago for the first time in 17 years. I needed some fairly major repairs including a crown, a root canal and 12 fillings. I now go once a year for a checkup and have had no problems since.

with working ~10 hours a day I found it very hard to even think about making a dentist/doctor appointment over the last 6 years. the cost was a factor too considering there's not a bother with my teeth (a handful of minor chips from the rough and tumble of the football field).

Although, living where I am now and the price difference (free as far as I know), I may make an appointment for an aul scale and polish someday soon

mariaf24 wrote: »

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One year later appointment card came..i was shaking reading it...Immediately binned. I know i need to go again but just cannot bring myself to do it. I have no idea what im so nervous about...

I think it's the 'unknown'. You are lying on the chair with your mouth open and they are poking around...that first 20-30 seconds feels like 20 minutes and you don't know what they are thinking...will they need to extract? Etc etc...Oh god im shaking now again

Completely understand you, have been there myself. All I can say is that once you step over that threshold and actually go again you will feel better about the progress you made. It is so easy to talk/think yourself up into a panic. Try to think about it differently, not the first 20 seconds or even 5 minutes but think about it in terms of the lay-out of your whole day:

You know you won't be in that chair for ever, it has to be over at some stage no matter what. I usually think that if I have, for example, a dentist appointment at 2.00pm I'll be already at home watching tv by 3.00pm at the latest. By 6.00pm I'm watching the news and have dinner and the whole experience is already way behind me.

And once you go from appointment to appointment on a regular basis you'll feel that apart from some cleaning and removal of calculus the dentist doesn't actually have to do anything else. Keep it up and there'll be no need for complicated dental work and at the same time you feel more confident every time you go for an appointment as you get used to it.

I went for the first time in around 7 years last month. I realised last xmas that I hadn't been in a long time and the fact that I moved a lot during that time I just never got around to it. I wouldn't just walk into any dentist so after getting good recommendations throughout the first few months of this year I finally made an appointment. I look after my teeth fairly well but I still had to get a filling. I hate getting numbed and having the droopy jaw feeling for the rest of the day but the dentist was sound and let me get the filling without having to get the anesthetic. I got him to send me 6 month reminders so that I go more regularly. Probably wouldn't have needed to get a filling if I had gone more often over the years

Got a wisdom tooth out last week, I expected it to be an ordeal but the tooth came out easy, 2nd one gone now.

One thing that annoyed me was the dentist saying, "you've got really nice teeth..... For a smoker" .. "your gums are in good condition.... For a smoker" What does that mean? Are my teeth good or bad, stop sugar coating everything and just give it to me straight.