When I was a kid I had a dentist drill into a nerve. He didn't believe in giving children the needle.

Take the needle. Trust me on this.

< me faints! >

PMSL!

HAHAHA! That's funny! Interestingly if you look at my location and Yonk's you'll see that we both live, or have lived, in Edinburgh (me 12 years). If you can go through getting your impacted wisdom tooth pulled out at the Edinburgh Dental School and then have to have the socket packed with mesh stuff covered in clove oil, whilst a child is screaming in the next room, you can go through anything! Dentists? Pah! They don't scare me!

You really shouldn't feel any pain at all...what you think is the needle going up into your eye socket isn't, it's just the pressure. If it's injected slowly enough you don't feel a thing. Ask for some anaesthetic cream on the gum if you want, it's a bit pointless though as it's not the needleprick you feel...but if it helps you deal with what's coming, why not have it!

Does your dentist have "the wand"? Probably not since you're asking this, but if it's really dreadful tomorrow you could phone around and find one who does (private, people who can afford those don't work on the NHS )

I had a run-in with those butchers in Chamber Street when I was 11.

Closed down now, turned into flats....bet they're nice, those high ceilings and staircases - but I'd forever be hearing phantom drills and screaming
:scared:

Ok, you people are scaring me ... "the wand" ... "squeezy balls" ... wtf am I getting myself into here? :scared:

My wife is a dentist its supprising how little the needle hurts once the gel is liberally applied, have the needle , you'll be glad you did

I can't find good information on it but it's a "painless" injection system.

The company website is rubbish, unless I'm missing something...

Yeah the Butchers of Chambers Street has a ring to to it. I bet in 50 years time they'll have ghost tours there for people to listen out for the tortured screams from the ghosts of past dental 'clients'. Didn't know it had closed down. It is a beautiful building though.

Jokes aside, to be honest, those dentists at Chambers street were really no trouble. I was 27 at the time so maybe I was mature enough not to scream!

Not to put you off or anything, I had to have a root canal done a couple of years ago, the dentist a very nice Oriental lady started jabbing a round with the needle and managed to inject my tongue, then she stabbed me so hard the needle got stuck in the bone in my lower jaw. After 9 separate attempts to inject me she though that I was numb enough and started working, it could still feel every movement of the rasp she was using to fish out the nerve. For 30 mins I was in so much agony I could of quite happily strangled the woman at the end.

About a year before I went to a different dentist just for a check up and he said I needed two minor fillings and if I would go with out the needle he could do it there and then, so I did and it was fine but they were very shallow filling no where near a nerve.

A friend of mine sees a dentist that uses some form of hypnosis to control the pain apparently it works very well.

But I would probably have the needle again for any substantial work.

Good Luck

Dozzzzy

Go for the needle...BUT...get en estimate for the treatment first. :scared: Dental charges here I find horrendously expensive compared to the UK...and I was a 'Private patient' there (very few NHS Dentist's)


Perhaps you should have a sedative before getting the estimate...jeez...more expense...

Oh well...such is life in 'Paradise'

As a buddhist I like to transcend dental medication.

I've been told (repeatedly!) by another well respected poster that "paradise" is in fact near Victoria BC...you mean its been just around the corner this whole time

Oh yes...every morning I awake and look out onto the Lake...I know I,m in paradise...so 'getting the needle' so to speak at the Dentist etc is just paying my due's towards being here!.... ...I think