Today was my first dental appointment for... well, a long time. I reckon it must be at least five years, but it may well be longer. I don't like going to the dentist and I never have. It's not as if I abuse my teeth in the interim, but I'm afraid I have tended to only go to the dentist when I have a problem.

No problem this time, just paying money for medical insurance which I haven't used.

I went along for an early appointment this morning fully expecting mild dental torture. It wasn't that bad, but because I haven't been to a dentist for a long time I qualified for the Super Deluxe Teeth Scraping, which has to be done over multiple sessions. My mouth is just coming out of the anaesthetic, and I am waiting for the pain to start.

Which of course has been a lot of the problem with going to the dentist in the past: pain. I have happy memories of going to the dentist where I grew up and getting no anaesthetic for fillings, which is agony when you have sensitive teeth. Then the last time I had my teeth cleaned it hurt too, so although this cleaning was pretty intensive it wasn't even uncomfortable let alone painful just because there was anaesthetic involved. This helps.

I have another session of the Super Deluxe treatment which will be more intensive than the first: only a quarter of my teeth were done this morning, the remainder will be scraped and prodded in two weeks time. And I have a treatment plan - I have never had a treatment plan at all, let alone from a dentist.

Expect more posts about tooth pain and the joy of wisdom teeth another time.

Posted by Dunx at July 30, 2004 01:01 PM