More dentistry – Smell the fear.

Problem with a tooth, feels like it’s moving a bit everytime I bite on it.

i’ve approached things differently this time. Realising that allowing myself to be controlled by childhood angst about being worked on without anaesthetic is a bit silly (they’d never do that again… would they?), I just manned the fuck up and didn’t let myself get apprehensive. This being simply a check helps but still, I don’t worry about it. Despite my best efforts I’m still feeling a bit edgy sat in the waiting room and try to take my mind off things by answering emails on my blackberry. Luckily the wait is fairly brief and I follow the plastic blond assistant up the stairs.

Straight into the chair, no wimpering about being shit scared, just ‘that’s the tooth, it does this, what’s up with it?’. He prods it a bit and agrees it’s moving ever so slightly, looks like the filling has some loose. Worse still, he can’t repair it. That’ll be a crown then. X-ray and he decides that he will re-do the root canal work because he’s not sure how good the last lot is. Freaking great.

Now it turns out the root canal work is before we go on holiday and the crown fitting is after so I’ll have to spend the holiday nursing a temporary crown which will no doubt be a completely different shade and size to my existing tooth. Looking forward to the holiday snaps.

On a positive note this businesslike approach certainly works a lot better. No sweating, no popping fingers through the chair upholstery, no chasing me round the surgery with a tranqualiser gun. of course, that might all change when they actually start drilling away with their instruments of torture.

On an interesting note the dentist was as expected, from a different country but not the country I was expecting. He was irish.

1 Comment

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  By Matt, June 10, 2009 @ 6:01 pm

  I had the dentist yesterday, he’s bloody brilliant.

  I hate going, I think it’s a deep-seated anxiety from childhood based on having a patronising dentist. It just stings that it costs so much now I’m none NHS

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