Aspies For Freedom

Bite him like a piranha :twisted:  :lol:

This is why you carry a pack of tissues around on you. You can bite them instead. I've never bitten or been tempted to bite a dentist.

Kids at school, however, are an entirely different matter altogether.

Of all professions, Dentists have the highest suicide rate. Something gets to you when you realize, that children are scared of you, so scared, they'll hide under their beds, hunker down in the car, struggle the entire way to avoid seeing YOU.
You gotta admit, that's kind of harsh.
But yeah, I'd rather the general anasthetic.

To your comments on biting kids at school, done it. Generally discouraging to bullies if they bleed when you fight back.  :twisted:

Am I the only person who likes visiting the dentist? Then again, I only had to have drilling-free fillings in four of my molars for actual dental treatment, because the crevices were a little deep.

I'm not really a biter actually. I've never bitten someone before.

Dental work is important, and biting dentists could lead to them not being able to work.  That is bad.  I guess I did bite the tools once, but I was hopped up on the happy drugs they gave me...

I never had a problem going to the dentist at all ever.  Well- I don't feel pain very easily.  Being the teacher's pet is one thing (I ever hung out with her during the summer), but when the dentist looks forward to seeing you is another thing.  Conversely, I was not sure how much pressure to apply when they did tell me to bite down on something.  And when the told me to I always assumed they meant at that moment.  It made sense that if they said it I was to do it or they would have waited to tell me.  My dentist got bit a time or to, but not on purpose.  Just for frame of refernce on my sense of pain(or lack there of).  I had four teeth cut out once.  I only took one of the pain pills he gave me.  I remember nothing else from that day and flushed them.  I didn't even take OTC meds while I was healing.  -But police: now that hurts.(Sorry, sidetracked)[/i]

My current dentist, no. She cries when she thinks she's hurt someone. The one I visited before this one, yes. I actually considered yanking the drill out of that one's hands and carving "SADIST" on her forehead with it.

I was once an unwilling participant in an experiment at school.  We were forced to participate---No such a thing as volunteering or not.  I thought, and still do, that it was an unwarranted invasion of my privacy. We had to brush our teeth twice a day at school, using some dreadful tooth powder which was supplied to us.
(Does anybody even make tooth powder any more? I haven't seen any for years)
Anyhow, this experiment went on for THREE YEARS! Once every year, they would bring in a team of dental techs who checked us for cavities and cleaned our teeth.
I finally got so fed up with it that I bit one of the techs, but just hard enough to let her know that I didn't like all this nonsense. She let me know, in no uncertain terms, that she did not especially care about being bitten.

When I was in high school, our family dentist was one of the old-fashioned types who thought that novocaine was for wimps. I tried very hard to convince him that I was a world-class wimp, but it didn't work.  He did three root canals on me without using any novocaine.

Most dentists do care about what their patients are feeling. If the patient has a bad experience, he will switch dentists.

Children, who can't help what dentists they go to, might be another matter.

I did bite my dentist as a child. I wouldn't do it today.

I'm not getting any more root canals done. If the dentist says any of my teeth are that bad, I will just ask them to extract it. It's a lot easier in the long run.

i guess i used to bite everyone i think in kindergarten, then got sent to a special school for about 2 years.. no clue why. :-\

Never gotten the urge to bite the dentist.

I do, however, get urges to rip out the throats of random passerbys with my teeth, however.

I just clench my hands and keep on walking.

As far as I'm concerned, given how expensive it is, they shouldn't make too many adverse comments. That said, I really have to get up the courage to go to the dentist and get my teeth checked as I have a sore wisdom tooth and think it needs to come out.

I have this problem with a small mouth and getting a sore jaw if having to hold my mouth open very long at the dentist's. So they have to keep telling me to open wider. They want me to have 3 fillings done next and it will take an hour. I can't tolerate an hour getting fillings done and could only handle 30 minutes tops but don't know if they would be willing to do the two smaller fillings in one session. Anyway, at present, I don't have the money to get them done so it's something of a moot point.

Thanks, Micgrace . I had to have an abscessed wisdom tooth taken out a few months ago and I'm convinced that poisons from that tooth were giving me stomach upsets for quite some time. I'm very fearful of dentists and that's why the tooth got so bad in the first place, plus when it stopped aching, I thought it was okay.

I'm worried now that the dentist wants to do a root canal filling on another tooth. He put in a temporary filling but wouldn't listen when I said I just wanted it taken out. It's right up the back so it's not going to affect my looks if it gets taken out and an extraction is about $100 or so as compared to a root canal & crown which is $2500+.

There's not even any guarantee that root canals even work all the time so that expense could be for nothing. I've still got most of my teeth and most are in okay condition.

I agree with you that dentist visits should be part of the free hospital system and actually thought it used to be in Queensland. We used to have the best public health system in Australia but that was many a long year ago.