Is the dentist as bad as everyone says it is?

Question

My mother is deathly afraid of the dentist so I was only taken 2 times as a child so long ago that I don't even remember it. I just turned 18 and made an appointment for myself which is tomorrow but now i'm starting to get freaked out. Is it really that bad? I take pretty good care of my teeth but recently i've had this intense pain deep in my gums where my wisdom teeth are. ( they haven't even finished growing in yet) What can i expect ?

Answer 1

First of all, congratulations to YOU for being an adult and making an appointment for yourself.

I've always disliked going to the dentist (my most recent visit was this morning! ) and I'm probably closer to your mom's age than yours. The trick is to find one with whom you can be comfortable, express your fears and anxieties, and one with whom you can build a long-term professional relationship of trust.

Modern dentistry is nothing like it was when I was a kid...nothing like it was even 10 years ago. There are new pain meds, water-cooled drills....in some cases no drills are needed....headphones to listen to, movies to watch.

Relax, breathe, don't be afraid to speak up and ask questions or tell the dentist to stop if something really hurts.

Good luck!

Answer 2

no, just go to a biologic one and you will be fine.

EXTRACTIONS

Extractions have to be done well. Normally they pull a tooth out, stick a piece of gauze in there and say bite on it. After the tooth is removed, the socket has to be completely cleaned so that complete healing can occur. If tissue such as torn pieces of ligaments or periosteum is left in the socket and covers the bone, the bone will tend to heal over the top, leaving a hole in the bone, and new bone cannot form. This hole can persist for the rest of the patient's life. It is a chronic infection that is called an alveolar cavitational osteopathosis or cavitation. This means that there is an infected cavity in the bone. These bone infections are only now being seriously researched. If they are fairly easy to prevent by proper socket cleaning, why is this not being done? But many if not most dentists have never heard of cavitations.


CAVITATIONS

A cavitation is an unhealed hole in the jawbone caused by an extracted tooth [or a root canal or an injury to a tooth]. Since wisdom teeth are the most commonly extracted teeth, most cavitations are found in the wisdom tooth sites. Please see the graphic and photo below to get a glimpse of what may be in your mouth and the effects it is having. The photo and diagram demonstrate the destructive and pathologic consequence of a routine tooth extraction. Dentists are taught in dental school that once they pull a tooth, the patient's body heals the resulting hole in the jawbone. However, approximately 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic defect called a cavitation. The tooth is attached to the jawbone by a periodontal ligament which is comprised of "jillions" of microscopic fibers. One end of each fiber is attached to the jawbone and the other end of the fiber is attached to the tooth root. When a tooth is extracted, the fibers break midway between the root and the bone. This leaves the socket (the area where the root was anchored in the bone) coated with periodontal ligament fibers.

There are specialized cells in the bone called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts make new bone. The word "osteoblast" means bone former. They are active during growth and maintenance. However, the periodontal ligament prevents the osteoblasts from filling in the tooth socket with bone since the periodontal ligament fibers lining the socket act as a barrier beyond which the osteoblasts cannot form bone. In other words, an osteoblast "sees" a tooth when it "sees" periodontal ligament fibers. Since there are billions of bacteria in the mouth, they easily get into the open tooth socket. Since the bone is unable to fill in the defect of the socket, the newly formed "cavitation" is now infected. Since there is no blood supply to the "cavitation" it is called "ischemic" or "avascular" (without a blood supply). This results in necrosis (tissue death). Hence we call a cavitation an unhealed, chronically infected, avascular, necrotic hole in the bone. The defect acts to an acupuncture meridian the same way a dead tooth (or root canal tooth) acts. It causes an interference field on the meridian which can impair the function and health of other tissues, organs and structures on the meridian. Significantly, the bacteria in the cavitation also produce the same deadly toxins that are produced by the bacteria in root canals (see Root Canals). These toxins are thio-ethers (most toxic organic substance known to man), thio-ethanols, and mercaptans. They have been found in the tumors in women with breast cancer.

Answer 3

No.... Me myself is a dentist.... Many of my patients like to come back to see me in a regular basis.
They are good people and bad people in this world, so, there will be good cooker and bad cooker, good teacher and bad teacher,, good husband and bad husband....etc...there will be good dentist and bad dentist...because we are all human...

well, the pain on the gum over your not even erupted wisdom teeth is most probably what we called as pericoronitis, the inflammation of the gum over the erupting teeth.

Answer 4

Going to the dentist is annoying, but a regular teeth cleaning isn't that bad. It doesn't really hurt and it's over in about 30 minutes (not including the time you spend waiting).

Answer 5

It's only as bad as you make it. A good dentist will be able to keep you calm if your nervous. I've never had a problem going to one, probably because my parents never had a problem. So don't be nervous, it is no big deal. Talk to the doc. and let him know your fears, he will understand and reassure you. Be cool,it's ok.

Answer 6

There are even toothpastes that incorporate it, so no, it is not any longer undesirable for enamel. some human beings do purely no longer like it by way of fact it would not style minty, even with the undeniable fact that it is going to no longer reason any harm.

Answer 7

It's only bad if you make it bad!! IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD!! Remember THAT!!!! I use to be so afraid of the dentist!!

Answer 8

it shouldint be to bad, the dentist doseint like pull teeth or anything like that untill you say ok

Answer 9

depends on who your dentist is, my dentist was just trying to scrape stuff off my teeth, then he accidentally cut open my gums and i started bleeding. it hurt!

Answer 10

YES