Fear of dentist

After bad experiences, always avoided dentists wherever possible. Just before lockdown HAD to have an extraction. Anti climax, did not know it was out until he showed me.
Sadly, with the pandemic, he has retired and gone back to South Africa, so don't know who,, if anyone, I'll have..

I'm no expert, but I have had teeth taken out due to gum problems, and it has solved the issue.
Do you have an abscess?
I know they will usually give antibiotics before removing the tooth in that case.

Hi.
Before i signed up i was reading about people who have been to the Dentist but the Dentist wouldnt take the tooth out because it was a gum problem.
I now have the same problem. I can not take pain killers...iam in consent pain..
Surely if they take the tooth out the pain would go.
Any advice please.

My dentist is both nhs and private so when I get nhs treatment, if I require anything more complicated , I just get private. I am terrified of dentists after 2 bad experiences, I go into shock and can't stop shaking, I need an implant as I can't cope with a denture. I have changed practices twice and dentists twice in my current practice. Then young girl I have now is fab, she chats to me to distract me, also my gp will give me a couple of tranquilisers to take before the visit.

My heart feels for you. I use to be like this until i found the practise i am with at the moment. Over 20years of attending. My BIGGEST fear is that my dentist will leave and go eslewhere. He is so kind and gentle i never feel afraid at going. If you are in the Hertfordshire area i can give you the name of the practise. PM me for details.

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I suggest you ring your local PALS. Their Dental advisor should be able to help you.

I am another person who is terrified of going to the dentist. I had awful treatment as a child with large fillings done without pain relief ,practically all my teeth filled by early teens. Now I'm older the teeth are cracking off around the fillings. Main problem also is I had an anaphylactic shock to local anaesthetic 9 years ago and have not been to a dentist since then.
Really feeling low about state of my mouth now and affecting my eating but don't know who to go to. A couple of local dentists have declined treating me as I am high risk from anaphylaxis.
What can I do next ?

I have a phobia about Dentists too, bad memories of the School Dentist in the mobile caravan in the 1950s. But a few years ago I went privately to a Cosmetic Dentist and he is brilliant, talks me through everything first and they know I have problems even getting over the doorstep and they are very kind. Parking is easy ( if I thought I couldn’t park at the various NHS dentists that would be my excuse for cancelling) and they know me well.
The charges can be eye watering but as I hadn’t been to a dentist in a very long time, that’s my fault. He will always try to save a tooth and they are always done well.
If you are near Oxford I can let you have his name, although due to Covid he isn’t taking on any new patients at the moment.
But I would advise you to change your dentist.
Before Covid a lot of his patients were people who had gone to cheap foreign dentists and he was redoing their shoddy work.

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I have a very good dentist,but they do cost the earth.

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Is it worth it to be afraid of a coronavirus when traveling? For example, I will soon be in Hungary and I'm interested in dentistry in Hungary. I found this link en.bookimed.com/clinics/country=hungary/direction=dentistry/ where many clinics around the world. Now I should choose the best place.

Hey there, I am so sorry to hear about your fear of the dentist. I totally understand how you feel as I have suffered from this a long time as well.
It’s actually embarrassing none of my friends or family have ever had the same issues. I would love to help you and tell you what I did to help me get over this fear.
I tried many different things and none worked as well as this.
I actually came across a video on YouTube that I followed and it worked really well.
Here is the link dausel.co/fRzqe4
Click on the link above and when you get to the landing page, click where it says I am not a robot and then you will be sent to the YouTube video that will have the cure for your fear.
The best part is you don’t need to buy anything, just watch the video and follow the advice and tips it gives you.
Hope it helps,all the best!

Shocking isn't it - he didn't get a numb leg though as the plunger wasn't pressed!

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I would just add that we started at an NSH dentist but after having a different person every time we went and DH being stabbed in the leg with the inection I decided I could not return there and went private. - Had that been me they would have heard me in the next town!!

Being needle phobic and scared of dentists I have a problem too. I pay for a private dentist because of the extra care I get. I have everything numbed thoroughly with cream before any injection so that I don't feel anything at all and even then my head seems to shake without my consent but the dentist is sympathetic and deals with me very well.
Ultimately you have to go to whoever you feel does the best for you. I hope you find someone suitable.

I really feel for anyone with dental phobia as I have been there....After suffering from a sadistic dentist in my early teens I didn't go near a dentist until my twenties and then only with a friend holding my hand to have all my front teeth out!....
Over the years I have found that self-hypnosis (deep breathing and thinking of a calming beach scene or similar) has really helped me to lower my adrenalin levels and blood pressure. For many years I put up with pain rather than have injections, but now - with deep breathing - can manage both.
I go regularly to a hygienist and look after my mouth a lot better now than I used to, which means far less treatment is needed.
I hope you can try self-hypnosis/deep breathing methods whenever you think of dentists, and especially before phoning them or attending appointments. It really does work!

Worst dentist I ever saw had a new trainee dental nurse with him whilest doing my filling. He started telling her phrases in different languages like 'je t'aime amore, liebling etc telling her it meant darling I love you etc. Touching her arm saying bella. She was going really red with embarrassment. He started drilling, she was on edge, the water filled my mouth and throat and I was drowning, as she wasn't concentrating on the suction tool. He stopped as I was choking say oh madam Oh madam. He was foriegn but that is irrelevant as he knew he had upset the nurse and this is what happened. Think it shook him up. Finished the filling ok. I never went back.