#I was ASTONISHED. It was like. The gentlest self advocacy ever and she went straight to insulting me

[proteusolm]

Every once in a while I'll get thinking about how unnecessarily cruel the dentistry industry is and get sooo mad. I feel like no other branch of medicine has made so little progress in improving the comfort of the patient other than maybe gynecology. Ever had a dental surgery? I've had several and it's grotesque that being conscious for that is the norm. I'd rather have surgery while awake practically anywhere else on my body. I won't go into the gross details, but it is much too close to your senses. You don't want to hear, feel, taste, smell being surgerized that up close and personal even with perfect local anaesthetic. Pain isn't the sole aspect of surgery with the potential to distress someone. It changed me from a great patient to someone who refuses to go to a dentist outside of emergencies and pulled my own permanent retainers out with pliers when they broke.