I hate dentists!

I'm sorry.
 
I also hate the dentist--the dog gets to be put under to have her teeth done--why not me?

My husband had his childhood dentist do a root canal wrong - they "forgot" a root! [:@] Anyway, after fighting with his insurance company (same one as when he had it done) since they paid for it once already and wouldn't pay again, they ended up giving us the $250 or so they had paid for it in the first place..... but, it was like $8-900 for the re-do!!  Of course now it's done totally right, but that was BS. 
 
I feel your pain, hate the dentist as well.

you anti-dentites!

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I love dentists! (right now anyway) I just got back from the dentists. No cavities and my teeth feel so clean! []

But in college, I had my wisdom teeth pulled. I opted to stay awake for it and the dentist almost killed me yanking my bottom teeth out. So now I've vowed to take really great care of my mouth so I don't have to get any more teeth pulled!

i always liked the dentist i had growing up. if i happened to get a cavity, he always used the "gas" instead of the needle. man i miss that "gas". []

it was always interesting to see him after lunch. nothing like a dentist with a slightly shaky hand and gin on his breath! [sm=rotfl.gif]

awwww that really sucks!!! I myself have a horrible dentist phobia..i actually have to take Valium before they can just LOOK at my teeth...monday im getting 3 pulled...URGH!

i always liked the dentist i had growing up. if i happened to get a cavity, he always used the "gas" instead of the needle. man i miss that "gas".

 
I worked for a dentist and orthodontist years ago and the orthodontist was known to relax with a little gas after work himself.[].  You can find adult dentists who give you nitrous oxide though, and it does help but it doesn't usually replace the need for local anesthesia. 

reckon he would just sell me a tank of gas and the little mask? i dont really need any work done, just some relaxing gas.

I'd have to say that I am severely dental-phobic (or whatever the proper word is for fear of dentists). I am so afraid of dentists that I was once kicked out of an office. The dentist told my mom he couldn't work on me, and suggested she try a children's dentist (I think I was 14 or 15). The gas never worked for me, and I am absolutely terrified of needles. I won't get the novacaine, and I won't let them even keep the needle in the room with me. I refused the novacaine once and made the dentist take the needle out of my sight before I would open my mouth and let him work. Throughout it they kept asking if I was sure I didn't want the novacaine because I was so white they thought I would pass out from the pain, but I absolutely wouldn't go for it. I haven't been to the dentist since a little over 2 years ago because I am just that afraid.

Well, I never really hated the dentist until like 5 or so years ago.  I mean, before I was able to have braces-I had to get the sting of flesh or whatever it was scalpled because I was not able to touch my tongue to the roof of my mouth-and that still did not upset me too much.  Well-my mom forced me to go and you know how that goes.  Well, about 5 years ago, I was getting another root canal done, when the jerk of an endodontist went to give me novocaine but hit a nerve-it felt like he had poured hot wax all over my face.  I was so freaked that I grabbed his hand.  He screamed at me and that was the rest of that.  That tooth has still not gotten fixed.  This is just another tooth.  Well, I called my insurance company today and they will apparently pay up to 80% which is amazing.  Oh, yes the dentist from yesterday sent me home with a prescription for sedatives next time I come in to get the procedure done.  I was told that if he can't get the file and post out from the top of the tooth-he will have to go from the bottom.  I don't even want to know how they do that!

I think depends on the dentist, i had an awesome dentist before were you could not even feel when the needle was already out of your mouth, on the other hand i other dentist that give you the shots like if he was trying to breake ice

I had to get the sting of flesh or whatever it was scalpled because I was not able to touch my tongue to the roof of my mouth-and that still did not upset me too much.

 
It's called a frenectomy and when I was an assistant, it took EVERYthing I had to sit and assist on those.  I don't know if it's a wierd form of empathy or what, but when I watch stuff being done to other people, I can feel it myself.  It's hard to explain, but it was really unpleasant.
 
As for doing the root canal from the top down:
 
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Thanks Cakana, my question is-how do they do it, where do they go in?  Thanks!

where do they go in? Thanks

 
The ones I saw, they made an incision in the gum, on the outer part, not the inside near the roof of your mouth.  If you pull your cheek away and can sort of point your finger to where you'd imagine the tooth's roots are, they make the incision right there and enter the root from that angle. Don't stress over it though.  In all likelihood, they'll be able to clean it up with a traditional root canal.  It's not all that uncommon to have to go back in an clean them up years later.