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thethingything · 7 months

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also though this dentist is genuinely the best dentist we've ever had.

she was really understanding about us having issues with toothpaste and we asked if she had any recommendations for alternatives we could try to see if those help and she gave us some options to look into so that's cool.

she also took our medical trauma into account and kept checking if we were okay throughout the appointment and asking if we needed to take breaks and we've never had a dentist do that before.

she warned us about what each tool would feel like too and actually warned us if something was going to be painful which like, I would in fact rather be warned that "this is going to be uncomfortable in this way" and "yeah this is gonna feel really bad for a few days but that's normal" than have someone try to reassure us that it won't be that bad only for it to get really painful.

our next appointment is to have a tooth removed and she explained the procedure to us and how that normally goes, and then we asked if we can take the tooth home afterwards and I can only assume from the look on her face that she's never been asked that before, but she was like "yeah I don't see why not, it is yours after all" so that's cool

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #happy posting #I am really glad she warned us that our mouth would be sore because holy shit she was not kidding #but also we've never had a filling that blends in so well with the rest of the tooth. you can't tell there's a filling there when you look #she put so much work into it and got us to check it before we left to make sure the texture was okay #it took twice as long as the appointments we've had for fillings in the past #we're so used to having dentists just kind of rush to get everything done and being really shitty about our anxiety #which like admittedly I am probably still gonna have issues with medical trauma stuff later because that's just how that is #but holy shit it's such a relief to have a dentist who very clearly wants to make you as comfortable as possible #and is obviously taking your trauma and health problems into account the entire time #we're also used to going to one appointment and the medical professional being great #but then being shitty in the next appointment once they realise we have complicated problems and trauma and stuff #but no she was just as nice and accommodating as last time which is gonna help a lot with feeling less anxious next time I think

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