I always thought that people who were really afraid of the dentist were just being melodramatic like being scared of balloons or dust. I mean really?!
But I am about to change my mind and have to openly apologise for those previous thoughts.
After having recently spent a few trips to my new dentist I am now well aware of how people can feel fear when sitting in ‘the chair’.
Now my dentist happens to be a nice looking man who smells nice and speaks sweetly but this does not deter from his eagerness to pull out a drill or injection needle once I am ‘sitting comfortably’. The line you get given when the foot long needle is about to spear your gum of: “You will only feel a slight tickle” is an absolute lie. Not sure whether the pain of the needle hurt more or when it wore off two hours later.
The second set of pain came when I had to pay for this abuse. I do not feel any better in fact feel worse than when I went in, my purse is considerably lighter as dentist work is neither cheap or cost effective and I am being punished further by having to go back.
Sympathy also come in the tiniest forms when you encounter tooth ache or are in pain after seeing the dentist. You can’t see it, hear it and I am damned if I can make it go away and now all I can smell in my mouth is cloves from the horrid solution you are made to swill afterwards. All this complaining aside I really only have myself to blame and should have looked after myself better and cut back on Jaeger Bombs!
Moral of the story is don’t eat sweets, floss, gargle and brush regularly.
