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Our dentist gave my husband a prescription for 2 Xanax pills when he had a major reconstruction scheduled after my husband explained the anxiety that had kept him away from the dentist for so long. Our dentist actually does care about patient comfort and he treats adults like adults. He has never lectured me, and the interesting thing is that my teeth have never been in such good shape and I take care of them much better than I ever did from getting the bi-annual lecture. I respond much better to encouragement than to shaming. Or maybe I am just too contrary.
Anyways! The Xanax helped a lot, he took one the night before so he could sleep without worry and one in the morning so he remained relaxed during the procedure. He obviously needed a ride to and from the dentist for that procedure, but it made a huge difference and he now returns to the dentist regularly and has not needed any medication. Finding a dentist that you trust is key. Don't put it off any longer. Go now before it gets worse. Best of luck.
Our dentist gave my husband a prescription for 2 Xanax pills when he had a major reconstruction scheduled after my husband explained the anxiety that had kept him away from the dentist for so long. Our dentist actually does care about patient comfort and he treats adults like adults. He has never lectured me, and the interesting thing is that my teeth have never been in such good shape and I take care of them much better than I ever did from getting the bi-annual lecture. I respond much better to encouragement than to shaming. Or maybe I am just too contrary.
Anyways! The Xanax helped a lot, he took one the night before so he could sleep without worry and one in the morning so he remained relaxed during the procedure. He obviously needed a ride to and from the dentist for that procedure, but it made a huge difference and he now returns to the dentist regularly and has not needed any medication. Finding a dentist that you trust is key. Don't put it off any longer. Go now before it gets worse. Best of luck.
if I ever have another root canal I will get xanax or valium before hand. I couldn't so another one without something to help me relax. my last one was sorta of urgent and my brothers best friend did it. I didn't have time to think ot worry about a root canal until I was sitting in that chair for 4 hours!!!! Later I was told mine was complicated because I has some calcification and a bad infection.
Thanks to all who replied. I will take your advice/suggestions/recommendations under advisement.
20yrsinBranson
Seriosuly consider some sort of anti anxeity med, but don't go for the gas. It will relax you. I hate going also and it's my own brother who works on my teeth. but I feel so much better after knowing my teeth are healthy.
Seriosuly consider some sort of anti anxeity med, but don't go for the gas. It will relax you. I hate going also and it's my own brother who works on my teeth. but I feel so much better after knowing my teeth are healthy.
I assume you mean nitrous oxide and why not "gas"?
Here's my dental horror story, regarding oral surgeons in a county hospital. I had a severe bacterial infection in my throat, a few years back. It quickly turned into a facial abscess, and was very painful. I had no health insurance at the time. My totally clueless landlady then, suggested that I go to a county hospital for treatment. I did, and it was the biggest regret of my entire life!
I waited in their over-crowded waiting room, for at least three hours!
When they finally checked me over, they said that they must admit me.
They wheeled me in to a stark, bleak room, where they hooked me up to an IV, X-rayed my face, and did an MRI scan of it too. I spent the night alone in that room, petrified.
Next morning a couple of oral surgeons converged on me. They insisted that they'd have to remove the facial abscess surgically, and that the infection had spread to the roots of a molar. They also said that I might lose more than one tooth. They wanted to X-ray my lower jaw, to see just how many teeth that they'd have to extract. They mentioned that they 'would only remove more teeth, if it was absolutely necessary, and wouldn't just pull teeth for fun'.
They took me to the Oral Surgery clinic, and X-rayed my jaw. They never indicated how many teeth that they were planning to extract. They just shoved a consent form for me to sign under my nose, which I did, because I trusted their judgment. I shouldn't have.
I woke up in the intensive care unit a couple of days after the surgery. They'd shoved a breathing-tube through one nostril, a feeding tube in the other nostril, and put a large bandage on my neck. I also noticed that I had 5 molars missing-two were on the side of my jaw that wasn't even infected! They never explained why they extracted so many of my teeth. They never kept me informed about the course of my treatment, at all.
I spent ten days in intensive care. I was unable to talk, because they put the breathing tube right against my voice-box. All I could do was sip juice and water. The breathing specialist, said that the doctors never should've installed the breathing tube in the first place. They had to constantly suction mucus from my lungs during that ten-day period. It kept building up in my lungs, due to the breathing tube. Whenever they suctioned my lungs, it took my breath away.
One night, my lungs got so congested with mucus, that they couldn't supply enough oxygen to my heart, which stopped. They had to quickly administer medication to restart my ticker, and bring me back from the jaws of death!! Keep in-mind that this never would've happened, if the doctors knew what they were doing. Even the nurses always griped about how inept the doctors were!
They finally removed the breathing tube after 10 days. They wanted to keep me in the hospital, until my lungs cleared. After they finally discharged me, It took me 6 months to open my mouth wide enough to eat a sandwich! I also endured massive diarrhea for a week, waiting half a day to get prescriptions filled in the hospital Pharmacy, and another tooth extraction (which was painful, even after 3 shots of Novocain).
I recovered from this horrific experience physically, but it really traumatized me emotionally. I'll never go a county clinic or hospital again, for dental treatment!
Dentists don't use ether in the USA. I don't know if it's not allowed anymore, or if they just mostly pulled together and decided to not use it anymore. But - I've never heard of a dentist anywhere in all my travels that still uses it. However, nitrous is available upon request for those who need it.
Personally I -highly- recommend nitrous for anyone with a dentist or drill phobia. It won't eliminate your fear, it'll just make you not care that you have it. You'll be all "oh I'm scared of you - uh..so will I be able to eat when this is over or what?"
Good stuff. I get it whenever they do any kind of drilling because I have a drill phobia. Otherwise I have no fear of the dentist at all. The novacaine shots though - those are the WORST.
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