I know I am having an irrational reaction to this and it's silly.
I've finally found a dentist who doesn't terrify me. I have been dental-phobic since I was 4 years old; when I fell down a flight of stairs, smashed my front teeth and had to be driven in the middle of the night to a dentist who called ma a "bad girl" and refused to let my mother stay with me, then picked out my broken teeth without sedation. Since then I have endured major jaw surgery, headgear, gum surgery, another facial surgery, braces for 7 years...
Fast forward to now. My teeth are perfect and my trauma-induced gum disease is under control.
Dd has been seeing our dentist since she was 2 and loves him and everyone at the office. She has a dark spot on her tooth that the dentist has been following for a couple of years (she's turning 5). I called to say I was pretty sure it was a cavity now and she needs to come in. That's when the receptionist told me the dentist doesn't usually work on kids!!
Well, I've been cultivating this relationship so that she won't have to go through the lifelong fear I did. And he HAS worked on her teeth. He drilled out the dark area and put varnish on it to try and seal it off. He has checked her teeth from the beginning. Now he wants to send her to a "children's dentist."
I want to cry. Am I just having flashbacks here? Dd has been an AWESOME patient. Even the dentist said she's more cooperative than most of his adult patients. She has let them do x-rays, polish her teeth and even drill out that spot.
Why didn't anybody TELL me he doesn't work on kids??? The whole point was for this to be our family dentist! How do I keep dd safe if she does need this tooth filled? I WILL NOT leave her side. BTW, I am in Nova Scotia, Canada.
I've finally found a dentist who doesn't terrify me. I have been dental-phobic since I was 4 years old; when I fell down a flight of stairs, smashed my front teeth and had to be driven in the middle of the night to a dentist who called ma a "bad girl" and refused to let my mother stay with me, then picked out my broken teeth without sedation. Since then I have endured major jaw surgery, headgear, gum surgery, another facial surgery, braces for 7 years...
Fast forward to now. My teeth are perfect and my trauma-induced gum disease is under control.
Dd has been seeing our dentist since she was 2 and loves him and everyone at the office. She has a dark spot on her tooth that the dentist has been following for a couple of years (she's turning 5). I called to say I was pretty sure it was a cavity now and she needs to come in. That's when the receptionist told me the dentist doesn't usually work on kids!!
Well, I've been cultivating this relationship so that she won't have to go through the lifelong fear I did. And he HAS worked on her teeth. He drilled out the dark area and put varnish on it to try and seal it off. He has checked her teeth from the beginning. Now he wants to send her to a "children's dentist."
I want to cry. Am I just having flashbacks here? Dd has been an AWESOME patient. Even the dentist said she's more cooperative than most of his adult patients. She has let them do x-rays, polish her teeth and even drill out that spot.
Why didn't anybody TELL me he doesn't work on kids??? The whole point was for this to be our family dentist! How do I keep dd safe if she does need this tooth filled? I WILL NOT leave her side. BTW, I am in Nova Scotia, Canada.
