Dental Hygienist Procedures - help!

frostyspice

Good to see everyone's comments on this thread - I'm off to the dentist soon and I'll just have to bite the bullet (as it were) over the hygienist - if it's got to be done, it's got to be done. Just need a stiff gin when I get home.

tomstickland

TBH I'm the worlds most dental averse person but I've never found hygienist visits that bad.

Toothsmith

I can't find a 9500! I must have dreamed it (How sad is that?!) It could be that it's one they are about to release.

If you have a Sonicare already, you won't gain anything by buying another ultrasonic brush.

THIS is the best oscillating/pulsating one I could find - JL may not be the best place to get it though. Osc/pulse are the ones the science says are best.

Toothsmith

My hygienist actually did mine yesterday!! They feel really sparkly now!

tomstickland

Ah right, Amazon are doing it for silly cheap money: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000C05JW/qid=1138408380/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-5525545-6986217

tomstickland

Toothsmith wrote:

My hygienist actually did mine yesterday!! They feel really sparkly now!

Were you there going "nooooo stoppppp I can't stand the scraping".

elisebutt65

I adore my dentist - he's just like my grandad - even looks like hime. It';s the most child freindly place ever and he has toys everywhere.

Just had a really bad experience with an emergency dentist in London - had an abscessed wisdom topoth so he filled me with anaesthetic and sent me off to wait for about an hour - by which time it had nealry worn off and then tried to pull it out - my screams put off other people in the waiting room so he had to give me more anaesthetic - then my whole face swelled up and I had to go into hoispital to get pumped full of antibiotics!! This was about 20 years ago and I had to pay £50 up front in cash!!

I've hated going ever since but I still do it every 6 months - I never want to go through that again - hence I went to hospital last year to have one tken out under a general anaesthetic - even then I was scared I'd wake up, but them not know it - lol.

loracan1

I don't mind going to the hygienist, it just worries me when I think my crown's going to pop off when they're scraping round it...rather visit the dentist than the hairdresser any day of the week.

Toothsmith

No - I was going "Come on you wooses - is that the best you can do?? Call that pain ??? Hurt me Hurt me!!!!"

I'm off to bed now - night all!

tomstickland

rather visit the dentist than the hairdresser any day of the week.

That's really odd. I love going to the hairdressers, I see that as pampering.

It's an odd area this. When I had some rust teased out of my eye by a doctor a few years ago I realised what a good thing having a medical profession is. Despite being a medical wuss, I do think that modern denistry is pain free. It really bugs me though that when I go to the dentist then I concentrate 100% of my attention on a few nerves. I'm sure they could tickle me with a tickling stick and I'd thought it'd hurt.