"...and I finally found out how much less unpleasant the whole experience could be."
I guess you also came to the realization that your dentist was a sadist. Lawrence Olivier in Marathon Man comes to mind. :)
For the first 30 years of my life, I went to a dentist that didn’t use novacaine for ANYTHING, including fillings!
Then he retired, and I finally found out how much less unpleasant the whole experience could be.
It makes me cringe just thinking about it.
“For the first 30 years of my life, I went to a dentist that didn’t use novacaine for ANYTHING, including fillings!”
Ever see the movie Marathon Man? Are you sure your dentist wasn’t a former Nazi war criminal?
I don’t like needles in certain situations (like getting fillings and such), so about the time I was 12 or 13 I got my dentist to stop using novacaine just because I hated getting the shot in my mouth so much. Fortunately, I’ve managed to not get any cavities or such for the last several years.
"...and I finally found out how much less unpleasant the whole experience could be."
I guess you also came to the realization that your dentist was a sadist. Lawrence Olivier in Marathon Man comes to mind. :)
***For the first 30 years of my life, I went to a dentist that didn’t use novacaine for ANYTHING, including fillings!
Then he retired, and I finally found out how much less unpleasant the whole experience could be.
It makes me cringe just thinking about it.***
Must have been my dentist when I was a child. No one in the family ever needed dental care except for teeth cleaning. So when I had a cavity, and complained of the pain, I was told I was being a baby. Same thing when I had two root canals without any pain killer. This went on until I was old enough to choose my own dentist. BUT WAIT...there’s more to the story.
Many years later my parents moved, and the same dentist was in their new neighborhood. When my mother went to him, she asked why he had moved his office. He told her that he had been down to two patients, his brother and his best friend. It was his friend who finally told him that he was causing unnecessary pain and that’s why he lost all his patients.
My mother said that he’d become as gentle as a lamb.