dental distress

[submarine_bells]

I've just got home from a dental appointment with the Marquis de Sade. You'd think that even if he didn't hear the muffled "ow!" noises from the dental chair, he might have noticed the shivering and hyperventilating, right?

I think I will just sit here and shake for a while. That was not pleasant.

Comments

[griffen]

Dentists should come with an automatic safeword mechanism.

I'm sorry you had to endure that kind of non-consensual pain. *hugs?*

[submarine_bells]

*hugback* Thanks. Gah. I'm never going to see that dentist again, that's for sure.

[freyaw]

Sadly, mine have always been aware that if my mouth was within their reach, they were within my reach. A gentle push indicates to me that you'd like them to ease up for a moment - and if they say "just a little bit more" and try and go in before one is ready, it doesn't have to be gentle.

The worst experience I have ever had with a dentist was the one who kept me waiting for four hours, and then didn't touch the tooth I wanted him to look at - a tooth I got seen to by another dentist a year or two later (a crown needed to be pulled off and cleaned out under properly before it became a cavity and then a new crown put on).

[freyaw]

Oh, and I can highly recommend the dentist I use now. I don't know whether it's deliberate or not, but it seems the entire practice is female - they're on Marion Rd in Plympton, within walking distance of my place.