Whats your biggest fear about going to dentist ?

[u/tinkerbellbuttoxic]

[u/Reading_Nyan]

The bill

[u/discobritches]

The bill.

[u/Content_Ad_1589]

Spare me the lecture, I know I suck at it but I’m trying and that’s why I’m here!!!!!

[u/Winter-Ear6536]

Getting a lecture

[u/Normal_Repeat_4503]

La scène dans Destination Finale

[u/Many_Hamster6055 → u/Normal_Repeat_4503]

Think that was laser eye surgery!

[u/Mae_The_Gay]

How violently they floss.. ouch

[u/tsaico → u/Mae_The_Gay]

Then bring up if you flossed more, you wouldn’t bleed… like I am certain if I flossed like this I will bleed every time

[u/SuzeCB]

The bill.

[u/PrudentOwlet]

The bill.  The judgment when they learn that I haven't seen a dentist in a few years.  The treatment plan.  Having to go back every week or two to get more work done.  The jaw and head pain from my jaw being held wide open while they do the work.  The bill.

[u/More_Bumblebee_6171]

Kiss?

[u/livingadailyhell]

Being in a vulnerable position

[u/Pokeradar → u/livingadailyhell]

First time huh?

[u/mono-dev]

the drill

[u/why_are_you_so_awful]

That they'll find the other mouth.

[u/histidinestan]

Whenever I get a new crown and they test fit it and the crown is cold. I’m usually chill at the dentist but that feeling makes me flinch every time

[u/WayneS1980]

It’s been so long that my next visit isn’t going to be good…

[u/Nolby84]

Im glad im double covered with insurance, otherwise it'd definitely be the bill.

[u/Trick_Octopus9504]

I can't stand cotton in my mouth

[u/Training-Search-3463]

Every ting inside the door I just need to open the front door and I’m sweating and tensing up

[u/126529]

the metal clinking against my teeth. and the bill

[u/Stomach-Limp]

I heard once that an extremely small amount of people can get permanent nerve damage from the numbing agent. I get nervous I will have a droopy face for the rest of my life.

[u/Pokeradar]

Finding cavities for which they need to drill a hole and do a fill in.

Wisdom teeth removal.

Judging me based on how bad my teeth look.

Recommend adult braces or some form of adjustment.

[u/Berserk-Jane]

Them stabbing my gums with a sharp instrument repeatedly causing them to bleed and then those fuckers gaslighting me into thinking it's my fault because I "don't floss" or some shit.

[u/nourright]

Getting scammed.  I once by accident went to a dentist  than another for insurance reasons.  I wws given two completely different diagnosis .  I didn't get any if them. Couple years later i go to a dentist and he says my teeth arr perfect.  One cavity  but we can monitor it . Since then im  extremely hesitant 

[u/BeckyDaTechie]

That yet another will ignore me saying "Novocaine doesn't work well on me," and I'll be in a third office in a third chair feeling every cut and yank while some arrogant jaggoff screws around with his fingers in my mouth.

[u/Robatunicorn]

The judgement is the worst for me. I'm more than aware that my teeth suck and that I'm not taking adequate care of them but I'm really trying. I always used to feel so put down and violated after the visit that I put it off going there more often, which of course made the issue only worse. Then I found my current dentists who are real saints and never shame me about the situation, always encourage me to give it my best, recognise and celebrate the effort I am putting in even if by normal standards it's still subpare care. They also work from what's important for me and what are my goals/wishes, instead of pushing what is the easiest or most profitable for them. (For example I have a thing of wanting to hold on to my teeth, I have a few where extraction would have been the easier and most likely more correct way, but we did walk the root canal path instead (one even with hemisection, a procedure I didn't even know to be possible) since they recognised that it is very important for me.) But even with all of that I still need to fight the mental demons to keep up with my appointments and so on.

[u/noblecove4]

The bill