Are You An Anti-Dentite?

[Pekka]

LordShiva, really? Well good for you

Mmm.. I think it's important, that the dentists realize the phobias of few customers and are able to deal with it accordingly. Sometimes those phobias were created by other dentists who did something horribly wrong. After all we are dealing with pain issues here and other things so..

A good dentist to me is rational and explains what he is doing. Just doesn't whip out instruments of hell and all these other things that seems to come from the torture chambers. And then you stare at the bright light and hope nothing bad happens.

So they should take those customers seriously. And.. the ability to calm down those customers is important and if you just focus on some of the things you're doing and not pay any attention to the customer who is scared for their lives, I mean that's just another bad experience.

Ability to talk and sometimes use alternative methods that are just as good but are less scary to the maniac customer, that's always good. Or use sedatives if necessary

I'd like to be KOd. They do that, they put you to sleep and use anaesthesia (spelling?), but that's expensive.

[Sava]

I'm pro-dentite, but anti-hygenist

dentist

dental hygenist

[Dauphin]

I'm a sado-dentite.

[Eli]

Dentists.

One of my wisdom teeth is lying on it's side instead of standing up and I know that sooner or later I'll have to cut it out. I also know that sooner is much better because it could get inflamed and whatnot.

But, never do today what can be done tommorow. So I guess i'll wait for an emergency.

[Addled Platypus]

SlowwHand is more of a anti-bananite


if this is pain yes (been there, left)

having a dentist knowing what to do ( I have one now)



[2 bridges, 4 posts just last year]

[Imran Siddiqui]

I never understood a fear of the dentist. A bit unpleasantness, but your choppers get super clean by the end of every visit.

Though the anti-Dentite episode was classic

[Jon Miller]

I like dentists.. although they have caused me a lot of pain.

JM

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Eli
One of my wisdom teeth is lying on it's side instead of standing up and I know that sooner or later I'll have to cut it out. I also know that sooner is much better because it could get inflamed and whatnot.

I have exactly the same - a horizontal wisdom tooth.

I had so many experiences of psychopathic dentists doing terrible things to me as a child that I only go in an emergency. They'd get paid per filling so would drill healthy teeth just for the money.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I never understood a fear of the dentist. A bit unpleasantness, but your choppers get super clean by the end of every visit.
...

Same for me.
The only unpleasent thing is,
that one hour of the day gets lost for the visit to the dentist
(and, of course the waiting till it´s your turn, but as I normally try to get the appojntments for my dentist very early the day (normally around 7:30 am) so that I´m one of the first patients, I don´t have to wait very long (n ormally just around 10-20 minutes))

[PLATO]

:banana:

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Starchild
I love the dentist. There's something so....cleansing about each stab of pain being in the pursuit of perfection.

Sounds like someone watched "The Dentist"

The perfect movie for people with a dentalphobia

[Will9]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
In general? Do you find them arrogant in social settings?

I'm okay with them as long as they are not working.

[SlowwHand]

[Straybow]

For years my Mom thought we were just typical kids when we complained about our dentist. The dreaded Dr. Rush. I didn't have the vocabulary for it as a youngster, but the guy was a total a-hole.

When we moved away and got a new dentist all three of us were quiet, even mildly happy about going. We hadn't spoken, but we instictively felt that the new dentists had to be better than the old one.

We went, nobody cried, whined, puked, or otherwise complained. Mom was so shocked she stammered an apology to us for not understanding that we hated the man, not the dentist.

[Provost Harrison]

As long as I am sufficiently anaesthetised I am fine...although the sensation of that really rough, grindy drill is enough to send shivers down my spine just thinking about it