@Captain24 oh I couldn't even imagine... cos like, I can't feel my eyeball right now! I guess if I strain a little and move my iris right to the periphery... but yeah I can imagine that would feel absolutely bizarre!
I think most dentists nowadays (unless you happen to get someone crappy) really do understand how much anxiety people get about getting in the chair. It's a SUPER common fear, both of the judgement, and of the drill. So they are more nurturing and gentle these days methinks. Also, something that helped me was to remember that there's folks with WAY worse teeth going in there! This is not a judgement at all on anyone who has struggled with meth, but having seen how much damage it can do to the teeth is bonkers - and that thought kinda helped comfort me about how yellow/covered in plaque/riddled with holes my own teeth were.
And yeah, I've had soooo many fillings, the triple root canal (and nearly a second root canal! If the filling in that tooth doesn't hold I'll need another one), all of it. So please remember you're not alone on that front. Legit, dental hygeine can be so hard to maintain! So give yourself some grace there hun 💜
Also for flossing - I cannot for the life of me use regular dental floss, where you wrap it round your fingers and have to reach into the back of your mouth somehow with both hands? Makes me gag a little tbh. These little thingos changed my life:
You can properly push them between each tooth, reach the back, and don't end up cutting off all my finger circulation to use them! It hurts at first if you haven't done it in a while, and your gums will very likely bleed, so be gentle. One of those 'the more you do it the better it is' kinda things. I actually love flossing now, I get super into it cos there's something almost ASMR-like about being able to see all the bits you're removing! Maybe I'm just weird.
ANYWAY.. now I'm really leaving for actual realsies! See you in a bit over a week!
Big love forumites!! 💜
