Are you frightened of the dentist?
 

Or are you brave?

Well.......

Nope

Only of the pain in my wallet

Nope.....I had an accident when I was a kid and ended up needing a lot of dental work so that took any fear away.

The opticians on the other hand I hate...

I don't like the dentists, but I'm not scared of going. I do need to go and make an appointment as it happens because one of my teeth snapped in half eating a sweet, and I just left it, but now it's starting to give me on and off toothache. I'll get around to that one day.

Remember the gas as a kid? That was horrible.

Yeah...it was. I woke up after one treatment with no shoes on....apparently I fought them when they were putting me under and kept kicking the nurse

Yes big black rubber mask and a horrid smell and counting to 5

vile

Yeah, it used to make you kick your legs out like you were being sufficated. I suppose you was in a way.

It'd space you out for the rest of the day, And you keeped getting the smell.

I always remember the walk homes after having teeth taken out. Spaced out with a mouthful of blood. My mam would put a scarf around my mouth so the cold didn't get in.

When my son was younger he shoved a bead up his nose at school and ended up in hospital to have it removed as they couldn't get at it. He went bat **** crazy when they came at him to put a canula in so decided to gas him. I was with him when they put him under and the Doctor said, "in 5 seconds he'll start to fight it" right on cue he did. Was awful watching it...but the doctor said everyone does it

The worst bit was being starving all day because you cant eat before you go, then when you get out you can't eat because you feel like ****

There was a plus point though, you got the day of school and you could sit and watch the telly all day.

True :laugh:

No not frightened of a dentist

No….

What about that jelly stuff in the mouth guard..boak.

Not frightened ,but the whole inspecting of the teeth and deep cleaning is vigorous / uncomfortable,and I'm always happy when it's over.

Not really.

How we used to live, pebble mill, Pipkins, How and the Wombles

How we used to live...we used to watch that in school. They used to wheel in the one tv the school had so we could watch it. :laugh:

I'm not frightened BUT then I've never had any major dental work done as an adult or kid... and I think it's bad childhood experiences that make people scared of them? Most I've ever had is a filling in a baby tooth.My second-from-the-back molar on the right has been a bit achey on and off for a couple of weeks though. I can't visibly see any reason for it so I'm probably going to have to get it checked out. Maybe I'll be scared of dentists after that.

Oh same, anything eye related terrifies me. Dentist is fine, I mean I don't love it but I'm not scared going there

I haven't had anything major done either, not even a filling. I was there yesterday though and I had to get a local anesthetic injection into my gum because she wanted to deep clean one of my back teeth, honestly wasn't even that bad

When they flick back your eye lid :skull: Horrible!