Nippy Sweetie: 'I Suspected That the Dental Staff Had Been at the Gas Earlier in the Morning'

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LOTS of people who know me think I'm scared of the dentist. It's not true. I am, in fact, mortally terrified of the dentist. Proper heart thumping out of my ribcage, sweat dripping down my back, legs turned to jelly terrified. These people can inflict pain. Real, agonising, with you for weeks pain. And I know, as the kindly dental nurse pointed out, that they're not there to hurt me deliberately. It just feels like it.

As you get older, you become less able to show this kind of fear. It's fine to throw a huge tanty when you're under 10, or to make your body rigid so that no one can get you sat in the dentist's chair, while the hygienist tries to wade through the tears and snotters. Not really acceptable behaviour in an adult, though. Or so my dentist told me the last time I visited.

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Nippy Sweetie: 'I Suspected That the Dental Staff Had Been at the Gas Earlier in the Morning'

Mine is not an unfounded, irrational fear. Like so many things in my life, a 'responsible adult' is to blame. I used to t...

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