What part of getting a drilling turns you on

For me, it’s the humiliation of laying all the way back in a humiliating position with a mouth spreader and feeling pain that is like a punishment for not brushing. To add insult to injury, the whine and scream of the drill combined with the pain makes the punishment all the more punitive.

I LOVE the drilling preliminaries! Yes, seeing TWO loaded syringes full of lidocaine (or whatever) on the tray that will be soon slowly injected into my gums over several minutes and feeling the numbness gradually “take over” so I won’t feel all the destructive drilling that is about to take place. I just experienced this a couple weeks ago. For those of you who might share my kink of “getting the needle”, please check out one of my Zity Photo Albums which is loaded with dozens of closeups of patients being orally sedated.

For me, it’s the humiliation of laying all the way back in a humiliating position with a mouth spreader and feeling pain that is like a punishment for not brushing. To add insult to injury, the whine and scream of the drill combined with the pain makes the punishment all the more punitive.

Oh yes, that's true.

Especially when the door to the waiting room is open and you have the feeling that all the patients in the waiting room are aware that you need to be drilled.

I would agree that humiliation is part of it for me. When I was first getting my teeth fixed up many years ago my dentist's operatory was right off the waiting room next to the reception desk. Any new patient being brought into the back had to walk by where I was and she used the loudest air turbines so everyone knew what I was in for. I had two marathon appointments with her to get a bunch of fillings done. Each appointment was about 2+ hours of chair time, leaving plenty of time for patients to walk past me both ways while the drilling never let up.

... and she used the loudest air turbines so everyone knew what I was in for...

My dentist back then had a terribly loud suction device that could be heard throughout the entire practice.

The dentist I went before had a small, quiet suction device that was placed in the mouth.

With the new dentist, a high-powered suction device was used, which the assistant inserted into the mouth. It was really loud, and I was embarrassed every time because I knew it could be clearly heard in the waiting room.

And my new dentist did a lot of drilling on me.

The second embarrassment came afterward at the reception when scheduling follow-up appointments: the door to the waiting room was always open, and everyone naturally overheard the dialogue when you had to arrange another appointment for drilling.

It was especially embarrassing when you got numbed and couldn't articulate yourself clearly.