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Good Enough Reasons To Hate The Dentist

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1.  There is always an aquarium.  To calm you.  Puh!  All those fish swimming around with their eyes bulging out of their heads…they just look like they are silently screaming……

PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE!

2.  Everyone in the office.  Yes, everyone.  Their teeth are too white. They need to join the rest of of the world and down a cup of coffee or Red wine once in a while.  It’s unnatural, unholy.  Not fair.

3.  It freaks me out when you sit in that uncomfortable chair and 2 sets of eyes peek over at you from behind mint green and white masks.  Kind of reminds me of a horror flick.  I could never pick these dental hygienists out in a line up!  Do they even have faces behind those masks?  I’ve never seen them!

4. Tools are in my mouth.  One is sucking spit the other is pick pick picking.  Gross.  Then the dentist is asking me about my kids, plans for the summer, seen any good movies lately?  Huh?  Excuse me while I drool a little and try to figure out what and how I am supposed to talk??

5.  It smells. Nuff said.

I floss and I brush, but I do not enjoy the dentist.

I am an adult, kinda, and you can not make me go.  So there.

MM

PS…if you know a good hypnotist who can get their freak on and get me over this ridiculous childhood fear…please send me their e-mail.  Time to get over myself already.

 

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    • Comments

    1. i am SO right there with you.. i would rather go to the gyno than the dentist.. no kidding…

      i think one things is.. when i’m there between his head on mine, it hands and all the tools.. i feel terribly claustrophobic!

    2. Straighten up young lady and make that appointment today. These are your teeth you are dealing with. You are lucky to have the opportunity to get good dental care when so many in the world can’t.

      (How am I doing so far?)

    3. It’s completely understandable and I had the biggest fear as a child and even stopped going to the dentist for a few years (in my teens). I finally went back at 19 and love the dentist I go to now. I’m finally over my fear and go every 6 months like I’m supposed to. I still don’t like the scraping!

    5. I left the dentist two years ago in tears!! Haven’t been back 🙁 Brusher and flosser here too, but I’m thinking drugs next time, it’s the only way. Something about opening my mouth like that feels like I’m being violated!!!

    6. No aquarium at my dentist…but it would remind me of Nemo!

      And, the metal. In my mouth. On my teeth. Ick!

      But, the smooth and squeaky teeth after are worth it.

    7. Well, I think you should venture down to Chicago, cuz I could hook you up big time! I LOVE going to my dentist. I go every 6 months like clockwork for cleanings and exams. So, I guess technically, it’s my hygenist I love. But, she’s married to the dentist, and they are both wonderful.

      I started taking my son there as soon as he started getting teeth, and he’s gone every 6 months his entire life. He absolutely adores Terry, the Tooth Fairy (as he so affectionately used to refer to her as) and has none of that fear or apprehension normally associated with going to the dentist. It helps that they have really cool flat-screens in every room that you can watch a movie on while they do their thing. 😉

    8. i could have written this exact post! I loathe the dentist. they HAVE to put me under just to get my teeth cleaned 🙂

    10. Oh my that is to funny.. I totally agree with you though I HATE the dentist it always gives me a headach when I leave and the smell in there Ughhhh!!! I wish I was some kind of help but I’m scared too lol…

    11. #4 is so true! Why do they even bother to ask questions when they know fully well that we can’t answer without clamping down on their fingers in our mouth?

    15. I am the person you hate…I am a dentist! Actually, as much as you hate going to the dentist, I hated BEING a dentist even more!!! So I gave it up…and haven’t looked back.

      I couldn’t take being hated and feared anymore. And that’s the truth!