are you scared of dentists yes or no

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are you scared of dentists yes or no

YES!

Dentists = sensory overload. As a adult, they are one of the few things that can cause me to have a meltdown. Meltdown = I feel like I am dying. I would rather be waterboarded because I would rather feel like I am drowning. When I have a meltdown I feel like every cell in my body is dying. It is PURE fight or flight.

Yes. Big time. I've never been to a dentist in my entire life, and it's just not going to happen, no matter how many doctors recommend I do so.

No.

Maybe never.

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I don't like going thou I'm not scared. I was alittle scared of going when I had braces thou cuz it hurt, the dentist was not good with kids & always complained that I wasn't brushing my teeth well enough but the dentist I started seeing after I had braces always tells me I do a good job brushing.

my dentists are nice, very patient (heh) and considerate. but the regular tooth scraping is like an antiquated torture procedure from the medieval days.

the one i had from early childhood until, about 14 years old grew close to me, apparently. it was difficult for her to retire.

i have health anxiety, and i conflate things in my mind and catastrophize possible outcomes of seeing any medical professional.

with dentists, i worry that they may detect some sort of lesion in my mouth that indicates cancer, and then going for tests that result in half my face being cut out and losing both my eyes in the process.

i know the possibility of such an outcome is minimal, but it is not a zero possibility, and therein lies the seed of a flourishing jungle of anxiety that i have difficulty in navigating.

To be honest I actually kinda liked the dentist. The dentist I visited it very nice and I would get a free toothbrush.
Except that time I needed a tooth extraction *shudders*

No as I have a very good dentist even when he had to take my wisdom tooth out last year he made sure my gum was completely numb before he took it.

Going to the dentists are horribly uncomfortable experiences for me, especially when I have a cavity and they have to put this mask thing on my face and I nearly have panic attacks because there's this primal fear of drowning or suffocating inside of me.

I used to be, but as of about a year ago I have started being more OK with it.

Only in that I have to be tranquilized before seeing one.

yes nut now i go to knock out denist

I actually like going to the dentist too. I'm lucky because mine is small and cozy and the people are really nice. Also thankfully my teeth are healthy so I haven't had to have painful procedures done, so that helps me to like them because I don't have negative associations. And I like how clean my teeth feel afterwards!