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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
oh yech! not for me!!! I'd be happy giving blood every day! I whine like a poodle when presented with the Dentist! I was thouroughly traumatized by an Army Dentist!
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Oh, and here I thought I am going to be the only one.
I am 100% like that, well 90%, because with dentists I am reduced to something less than a poodle.
I don't care of needles and drawing blood but dentists?
I have been traumatized by Soviet's
Army of Dentists. It was so bad, that I didn't visit dentists for 14 years after root canal treatment when I was 18 years old. Eventually it got very bad. I could not eat on one side of my mouth for 7 years until I was forced to visit a dentist in the UK. Forced, means either die from not being able to eat at all, or go to dentist.
I have found one who practised sedating. It did the job.
You know, in xUSSR they would inject a painkiller only when they extract a tooth? I mean, root canal treatments have been done without any painkillers. Getting close to the root in order to put arsenic (yes, arsenic) without a painkiller? It is that moment when the drilling machine goes over the root and you shoot to the ceiling from the pain and they say OK OK OK it is done, I can put arsenic on it now for one week...(a dentist in Israel told me that the arsenic was killing more than just the root, it was going deeper and killing other things around the root...) Let alone the crude equipment they used. She tried to get to the root with one drilling machine. Could not. Asked me to go to another chair with another drilling machine.
Yes, traumatized ...a good word. Scared shitless would describe it better.
Then again. It is only me, coward. The whole population of 200M+ people lived with it and had no problem.