[Cagey]

Know any good dentist stories? Or, are you two anti-dentites?

[theDentist]

Y'oughtta see them wet themselves when I bring out the tools of the trade....

... and that novacaine costs extra. ;)

[Savage Beast]

So what? Nobody's more masculine than I am--not bragging particularly, but that's the way it is. And nobody likes being a man more than I do.

I don't like pain. If I have to deal with it, I will, when the time comes. When I go to the dentist, I always say, "I'm not allergic to anything. Give me whatever it takes, but DON'T HURT ME!" My dentist knows me well. He's never hurt me. I've had three root canals. None hurt.

Once after relatively minor surgery, I had demerol. I hated it. I said I'd rather have the pain than take that.

It's just me. That's the way I am.

When my mother was 75 years old, she decided to rearrange some venetian blinds. She climbed on a table, fell, hit a table on the way down, hit the floor, and broke three ribs. She refused to take anything for pain other than asperin. She had a high pain threshold. That's her. It's not me.

[fr_freak]

By the time patients hit their 40s, Suchy estimates, there are four dental-phobic men for every anxious woman.

This doesn't surprise me all that much. From what I understand about gynecologic procedures, going to the dentist must not seem all that bad by comparison. Men, on the other hand, are not accustomed to allowing people to probe into their inner sanctum with steel implements.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Most guys have some problems holding their mouths open that long...most of the gals I went to school with wouldn't...

wink wink nudge nudge...

[aberaussie]

bttt