#My one tooth was so badly damaged due to cavity that it fractured and need to be extracted

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I had been down lately, like angry and scared, and feeling like people hate me and are specifically against me type of down and it's been like that for weeks. But today my dentist told me my dental hygiene had been much better compared to last time, and i had no cavities and you know what I'll take it! This is a win

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I feel u with dentist phobia, though mine isnt as severe as yours. I'm from Finland too and last year was forced to go to public dentist due extreme mouth pains. The whole operation that they did to my teeth ended just a month ago due having to move appointments due covid. I was super scared to go, but thankfully I finally met a lovely dentist who worked a lot with kids and treated me well with my phobia, giving me sedatives before appointments etc.

It saddens me that a lot of public dental places don't really have dentists who know how to handle adults with fear of them. But I hope you will get some good treatment to your teeth and get enough money together to pay for it!

I’m sorry you have to suffer of the phobia, too. Mine is indeed extremely severe and has resulted to a one lost tooth (and now for this 2nd one but honestly, I wasn’t in excruciating pain as I should have been so I had no idea it was a bad case).

I have never asked sedatives (aka the medication you took before hand to call yourself down, not the numbing of the tooth I mean) myself because I have a feeling they don’t work. I went to a knee surgery and got sedatives and honestly? Didn’t do a damn thing. 15 minutes prior the surgery I was still walking around my room and operating just normally. As the mild anesthesia in a dental treatment doesn’t work either (as don’t some pain medication when I’m hurting), I assume I have a high tolerance for some medicines.

My teeth problem and the dental phobia are results of abuse, dentist abuse and past life abuse I still can remember. When I was a child I was neglected in a way that parents didn’t care about our dental hygiene. So, when I had to go to a dentist sent there by school for annual check-ups, I had cavities and infections. And, you know what? The dentist was a sadist (quoting directly the dentist I saw today; he called him a sadist). He did all dental treatments without sedatives, anesthesia or pain relief; repairing, a root canal, tooth removal, surgeries... I have NO IDEA how such a cruel person got to keep his license till he retired! There was no way to change the dentist as it was a remote country village.

So, by the age of 12 I was so badly traumatized I didn’t go to dentist until I was 21 and I HAD TO GO because majority of my teeth were in a bad shape. My dentist back then had to remodel my frontal teeth because the damage in them was so severe. I cried two week non-stop and stopped eating and sleeping because I was so afraid to go. Nowadays the drill is the major trigger. My dentist today was complimenting me that I acted like I wasn’t afraid at all. I replied “Oh no. The drill is the worst. When you take it out you’ll see my phobia”. Sure enough, the tremors started with the sound of the drill.

Nowadays majority of my teeth have been fixed multiple times. They fracture easily due these constant repairs, and many of my teeth are root canal treated aka dead: they exist but have no life in them anymore as the living root has been removed. The stuff they use to repair teeth is plastic and it dries over the time. Then, it starts to chip and it needs to be repaired again. I have a 3rd set of front teeth model going on as every time the plastic dries and chips, the dentist has to mold the teeth again.

The only dental blessing is that I seemingly have no wisdom teeth naturally and thus I can avoid that surgery.

It’s disheartening to know that I will never be free of dentist. Every other year I need to repair and fix something. I have spent ridiculous amount of money to my teeth and it’s just buying me more time, not fixing the problem. I’m pretty sure by the end of my life I could have gotten myself 3 cars with the amount of money used to my teeth.

If we lived in cyberpunk dystopia I’d get myself teeth made from diamonds. Try to break now bitches!