Curiously I never found it to be as bad as people claimed. I tend to fall asleep in the dentists
chair and
only wake up if they want me to do something. I think being an engineer helps, since if anything I
concentrate on the unusual sensations and try to imagine what's causing them :)
Yes - actually me too. Because there was zero pain, just the weird discomfort of someone offering
abuse to the internals of my tooth with motorised files, I too was feeling oddly chilled.
Helped by my dentist of 20 years being a wizard with anaesthetic - absolutely no part of my face is
dead - he manages to just numb the tooth itself.
Before I found him, previous dentists used to numb most of your face. I've even ended up with a
numb nose with a particular knock-em-dead dentist in the past.
