Dental Distress

Oh my god...its funny, but also scary. As someone who doesn't like the dentist even my new hatred toward the dentist after my old dentist left and I have this new guy who has to fill 5 cavities on wednesday and getting a crown next month.

I pray to God I never have to get a root canal

I don't think root canals are as painful as they used to be. I was just as scared when I got one about 5ish years ago, and was absolutely terrified in the office, and then in the room when they sat me down. Honestly, it was the most "pleasant" dental experience I ever had. I felt the slight pinch when they injected the nerve agent in to my gums, and that was it. I actually dozed off once or twice during the procedure because I was laying down, and woke myself up snoring twice during the procedure xD

when I got my wisdom tooth taken out. i did the gas thing I went to sleep and the next thing I remeber was my mom telling me I called alot of people letting them know I wàs ok. lol but I don't remember doing this. at all.

The worst part about going to the dentist for me is that I'm not used to paying a man to drill me in the mouth.

I’ve been to the dentist for literally everything so many goddamn times, that it doesn’t bother me anything that they do. I’ve had four root canal‘s, one during Covid, and people always make jokes that route canals are so painful, they aren’t they’re really not that bad. Plus every time I get in that chair I fall asleep.

Worst thing that happened to me at the dentist was when they were prepping me for a crown. I have a phobia for needles, so just getting the shot sends me into a panic attack, so they gave me gas to keep me calm, but the doctor kept fucking leaving to do other things in the middle of the procedure, leaving his assistant to watch over me. The problem was that they cranked the gas too high to the point I started to see my life flash before my eyes, and luckily my body had the natural reaction to cause me to sit up and vomit or that dental assistant would never have noticed I was asphyxiating.

I started to wake up mid-wisdom teeth removal. I drifted up out of the dark and he was working on the one that was sort of sideways so they literally had to chisel it out I guess? Anyway, he's clanging away on my tooth and I just feel all this weird pressure so I made this "Urgh," noise and he stops and goes, "....You can feel that?" and real groggy I kinda go "Urh huh." Doc's eyes got REAL big, he looked over at the anesthetist and I was OUT again. lol

Those Orthodontic molds are a menace. I had to have them a dozen times, and gagged every single time.

during my last 3 years active duty Air Force I developed an extreme pain reaction to cold on my left side, military dentist couldnt find anything. then after i retired I went to a civilian dentist he says I need a crown on that side as soon as the crown was installed the cold sensitivity went away

When I had my wisdom teeth pulled, they had to put me DEEP under. All the pain numbing stuff, anasthesia, locals, novacaine, laughing gas, the works. About halfway through the procedure, the dentist wakes me back up and tells me that I'm moaning too loud in my sleep and that it's scaring a little kid in the waiting room. Then he tells me he's going to turn the various gasses back on, but at a low enough setting that I don't lose conciousness, and he tells me to "try not to scream." On the outside I comply, because I actually did feel a little bad for the kid, but on the inside I was thinking "You're pulling my teeth out, you've put the numbing agent at only half strength, and you're asking me NOT to scream? I think this may actually qualify as torture!"

my kids dentist has TVs on the ceiling above the chairs. I wish I could go there 😢