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This is a Benzodiazepin.....Diazepam, so will help with relaxing you, but also short acting so not going to make you too drowsy. Hopefully your dentist will also recommend for you to take two paracetomol and one 400mg tablet of Ibuprofen 30 mins before your treatment starts....as long as not allergic!!

Good Luck...i too am petrified of dentist, so know how you are feeling!!

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Would you feel the same if you're feeling a bit tipsy, they're wearing gimp outfits and the dental tools are all penis shaped?

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I small Valium tablet knocks me out after 1 hour. It was prescribed it to be taken before surgery. When the anesthetist came to talk to me pre surgery I was out...she asked my husband why I wouldn't wake up to speak to her. :lol:

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What bloody dentist do you go to :eek:

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Thanks for your replies everyone.

I have an appointment to talk to the dentist, he will tell me exactly what the medication is, and how effective it is in comparison to the IV sedation.

I will post an update for those fellow phobics.

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Why would you want and/or need to root canal and bridge a wisdom tooth? They are not needed and are normally just pulled if they are rotted and/or present a crowding problem in your mouth. ITWM, I would see someone else.

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A root canal and bridge may be expensive but the cost of having wisdom teeth taken out is horrific. It cost a bleedin' fortune when my stepson had his yanked out. It would have been cheaper to have him put down and then buy another stepson from somewhere.

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Were they impacted? For a straightforward extraction my dentist said it would cost a lot less for a wisdom tooth extraction than a crown...bearing in mind I'm in the US not Canadaland.

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I'm down to have all three of my wisdom teeth removed at some point this year, precisely because I'm not able to clean them properly.

I'd recommend removal as well (though I'm not a dentist)

You don't need them, and they will cause you more trouble and expense later - crowns have to be replaced, bridging work needs to be redone etc.

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Really?

I have only had one out. IIRC it cost me about $125, of which 80% or so was covered by insurance. It was an upper one, if that makes a difference.;)

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We really lucked out with the dentist we have here, she's very kind and gentle.

I had a real butcher of a dentist when I was in my teens, I remember one time digging my finger nails into my palms to deflect the pain he was inflicting on me. He'd spent a lot of time numbing my gums, which was a lie, I think he was just poking them deeply with the syringe needle but not actually injecting anything. Considering what he put me through, it's amazing I can tolerate dental work these days.

Anyway, are you sure you don't like my idea of "penis shaped dental tools", surely the idea caused a brief moment of intrigue? :D

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I need a root canal and a crown - my mistake, just taking about the dentist gets me all tied up.

I need to keep the tooth, I would still need sedation if it was pulled out.

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It was several years ago. He had all four out under general. I seem to remember the bill running to several thousand, not all of it covered by insurance.

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Sounds like they may have been impacted...is that right? If so extraction is much harder as they have to dig the teeth out of the jaw bone. For a general an anaesthetist is required...and they don't come cheap. ;)

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I had all four wisdom teeth extracted in 2010, top two were not impacted but were somewhat rotten, lower two were impacted, one of them being more or less horizontal.
I was given what they termed as "deep sedation" which was administered by IV, thus I'd guess it is the IV sedation others have mentioned.

I will admit that I was a little freaked out, as I've never been fully sedated before and so did not know what to expect, silly I know, but there you go.

I didn't have anything to worry about, was pretty painless (just a bit of an ache from the IV line) and the procedure went very well.

Dentist did look like a young Steve Martin though ;) :D

Seem to recall the cost was around $1300. Insurance covered the majority of it, pretty sure I ended up paying about $100, and that was because the dentist's estimate didn't match the insurance companies estimate of what it thought it should cost (shock, horror, insurance company trying to pay out as little as it can :D ).