Anybody else just enjoy going to the dentist?

Anybody else just enjoy going to the dentist? I especially love dental play irl I’ve done a few exams for some former patients and it’s just so fun!

I definitely love it. From the smell as soon as you walk in, sitting and waiting for your name to be called and listening to the patient before you get the drill, the anticipation and excitement that you could get the drill also. The crunch sound of a fresh amalgam being packed into your molar. It’s all perfect.

I love it as well. Sitting in the chair, being prepped, x-rays, the hygienist cleaning your teeth. Looking into her eyes as she works on you, the bright light shining down. The dentist checking on you after.

I absolutely love it... the unique smell that hits you as you walk through the front door, seeing all of the instruments spread out on the tray, being reclined in the chair, watching/hearing the hygienist snap on the gloves/other PPE, having your mouth stretched wide by a retractor during the cleaning, the taste of latex as the hygienist reaches deep into your mouth to scale your back molars... it's all so intense. Thoroughly enjoyable.

I love anything involved with braces. I had a pleasant experience with “serious” adult braces in my early 40’s and am always happy to discuss orthodontics with anyone. Just PM me!

Earlier this year, I had two dental procedures involving the replacement of old fillings. Unlike previous dentists I’ve had, my current dentist is THE BEST when in comes to painless dentistry! I particularly like getting numbing injections! My dentist numbs the area with a topical solution before injecting the needle. The only thing I feel, once the needle penetrates my gum, is a slight, but very brief, stinging sensation as the novocaine begins its journey to the areas to be numbed. Oftentimes, several sites are numbed over a period of two or three minutes. I really enjoy the feeling of my mouth gradually going numb from these slowly administered shots!

Not me!!! I get regular cleanings and have been fortunate to have very few cavities. I hate anyone poking around in my mouth at my teeth and gums during the cleaning process.

Denise

Not me!!! I get regular cleanings and have been fortunate to have very few cavities. I hate anyone poking around in my mouth at my teeth and gums during the cleaning process.

Denise

I’m with @denise Hopefully I’ll die before I need anything more than a clean. And I hate that!

Honestly it is no thrill for me. I had a cleaning today which was pretty much routine. One molar bothered me over the weekend but has gotten much better. Apparently I bit down on something wrong and caused some tenderness. The X-rays were fine so no damage. Two months ago I had a crown installed on another tooth. I was very happy to get past it all.

Hate it!!! Ughhhhh 😈

I have never had anxiety about seeing the dentist. Oral hygiene is very important. The one thing that has bothered me from time to time is the dental hygienist. Some are very skilled and gentle while others can be brutal. Speak of the latter, my previous hygienist while friendly was of short stature and buxom. She had to really recline the chair and tilt it back, which was not comfortable while practically climbing on top me to do cleanings. She simply couldn't reach adequately enough and would apologize. I felt sorry in some ways but also weird as I wasn't trying to rub up against her bosom. It was more like an inadvertent eye poke! I guess there could have been more serious concerns but this is mine.

I've come to enjoy the dentist. I think over the years the apprehension I felt gave way to some level of excitement, and I like the sense of being submissive and someone else being in control while in the chair. I don't particularly enjoy fillings (which I fortunately haven't had many) but I've found cleanings to be something I now look forward to.

I enjoy it when I have my dentist appointments. The first step into the office, that smell of a Dentist office just gets me going every time. Next is the anticipation of waiting for the Dental Hygienist to call you back so you can sit in that chair making you lay way back with your mouth wide open is very exciting for me.

When I was in college ( decades ago) there was a School of Dentistry and they were always looking for patients to practice cleaning on. The students were all women and they really got into the cleaning process. And being novices, had not yet figured out how to keep an "good" distance from the patient, aka the victim. The girls would climb all over you and the sessions where more interesting that the then make-out dates before closing of the women's dorms curfews. I always left with a simile on my face and white shinny teeth.

Hope I die before I have to see a dentist again. Nothing but bad experiences from wannabe doctors since i was twelve.

I enjoy a good exam and clean but not more thn that. the gloves in the mouth looking down at you the waiting the chair smells and sounds.

A dentist story. A beautiful young woman 25 years of age went to the dentist for a check up. It was the first time since an early childhood unpleasant experience dentist visit. She was extremely nervous and afraid. She sat down in the dental chair and the dentist came in and greeted her. He grabbed a couple sharp dental picks and then placed a drill bit in his drill and revved it up to high speed before hanging it up. He then laid the chair back so she was practically horizontal and picked up a dental pick and asked her to open her mouth wide so he could see what was going on with her teeth. She really got nervous and when laid back reached back grabbing and holding on tightly to the dentists front “private parts”. The dentist asked “young lady, do you know what you just grabbed hold of??” She replied, “Oh yes doctor, and we are not going to hurt one another are we??”

Absolutely not. I have a great fear of dentist. So much so if I escort a resident to the dentist as part of my job my heart starts to race and I start sweating profusely

I enjoy going to the dentist. These days, I enjoy it when I need to have an old filling replaced. The best part is the prepping with the numbing injections. I love the feeling of my mouth being slowly numbed up for the drilling as two or three, VERY SLOWLY administered lidocaine injections are shot into my gums.

As a child going to the dentist, was a shear horror! Any work was done with no Novocain….big scary guy, big hands, assistant that looked like hulk too! From first to last at 17 years old…ugggh! Probably why I have a White Coat issue around anything medical.

I never have and never will enjoy going to a dentist.

When young they liked to lecture children and make it seem that everything that happened to teeth to be a personal failing, even when teeth got knocked out because of a sports accident.

When older, it got to be something I hated because of the cost.

Hope I never sit in a dentist's chair ever again for the rest of my life.

One molar bothered me over the weekend but has gotten much better. Apparently I bit down on something wrong and caused some tenderness. The X-rays were fine so no damage. Two months ago I had a crown installed on another tooth. I was very happy to get past it all.

Well, it turned out not to be “nothing”. Apparently I had caused damage to my lower right wisdom tooth and in February a piece of it broke off. On top of so much else going on, it was just one more piece of stress in my life. Wound up getting a crown. The only bright side was the $1400 COVID stimulus check paid for it.

When I was a teenager I used to be terrified of the dentist, but now it doesn't bother me at all. I don't enjoy going, particularly when having fillings with the water from the drill going down your throat when it is difficult to swallow, but apart from that I'm ok with it…

I do now! I have a really friendly, caring, easy to talk to dental hygienist. She's middle aged, pretty and (ahem), well endowed. During my cleaning, her “front porch” has been rested on my upper arm and rubbed against my shoulder, I don't hate it because the room is usually rather chilly and she's very warm. It's not an erotic thing with me, just very comforting.

Don't enjoy going but usually don't hate it unless there's going to be a somewhat substantial out of pocket expense

I forgot to mention but I avoid the hygienist like the plague, that can be seriously uncomfortable! The dentist cleans the plague off and between my teeth with his hook thing, so I don't need her as well…

I do enjoy a visit for an exam and clean, the smells, the lack of controle. The gloves mask and bib.

I don’t enjoy going to my dentist so much, but my dentist is very kind and gentle. Therefore I don’t mind going there either.

I don’t enjoy going to my dentist so much, but my dentist is very kind and gentle. Therefore I don’t mind going there either.

I feel the same way. My dentist is a few years older than me (I am 59) so we have similar life experiences and chat about the past (life in 70's, etc. Often has a classic rock station from the 70's on). I am not “thrilled” to go to the dentist but I am not scared to death either. Frankly what scares me now is the bill LOL. And I have to admit, that when I need a dentist (broken tooth, toothache), I want one very badly and any lingering trepidation goes out the window.

Dont mind going, but im sitting in the chair thinking how much is this going to cost me

I don't mind it. I like the feeling of a clean mouth when it's all over. And there's something about the smell of the dental office when you walk in that gets me going. And then my mind starts to wander when I'm in the waiting room. Who else is already here? What procedures are being done on them? Who's getting the “bad news” that they need to come back for the drill?