Dear Dr. Belsky,
You very kindly gave me a treatment plan when I came to see you on 9 April. I obviously do have ‘dentist phobia’; the part of the treatment I am most worried about is the paradontosis treatment; since it is normally carried out without local anaesthetic, or rather an anaesthetic gel. From previous experiences, I found this to be extremely unpleasant. Would it be possible to carry out this treatment using local anaesthetic for the most sensitive areas? I would certainly be willing to pay for it.
If I can be reassured that the initial treatment sessions will be ‘without pain’, I can certainly contemplate undergoing the whole treatment plan, since from my experience in the past, the most unpleasant part was the hygienist. I know that poor dental hygiene has brought me to this place, and I’m ashamed of that; but it is my belief that some health problems are a result of the psyche; mine being that when my mother died I started to lose sight of myself, and didn’t take as much care of myself as I should have. This was 2 years ago, but I know in myself that I need to sort it out and I want to put my trust in you and your team. I would like to take up your proposed treatment plan; but I guess I just need a bit of reassurance.
By the way, I have been looking at your forum and I think the work you are doing there is extremely admirable; you are an altruist in every sense of the word; giving up your time to helping others; sharing your knowledge of dentistry and ‘life wisdom’; with philosophical thoughts … that’s a truly marvellous thing in today’s world of ‘dog eat dog’. You should be enormously proud of that.
I am a member of your forum, but was hesitant to post this message on it due to my personal problems.
I would be so very grateful if you could give me a message of reassurance regarding the initial phases of my treatment; i.e. paradontosis behandlung und schmerzen. By the way, you can write a reply to me in German, because I understand almost everything .. I am just not able to write it well.
All best wishes and respect,
Thank you in advance,
Karen
Dear Karen!
You very kindly gave me a treatment plan when I came to see you on 9 April. I obviously do have ‘dentist phobia’; the part of the treatment I am most worried about is the paradontosis treatment; since it is normally carried out without local anaesthetic, or rather an anaesthetic gel. From previous experiences, I found this to be extremely unpleasant. Would it be possible to carry out this treatment using local anaesthetic for the most sensitive areas? I would certainly be willing to pay for it.
You don’t have to pay for it – if you want an anaesthetic gel, you will get it. Simply let your practitioner know of your wish.
If I can be reassured that the initial treatment sessions will be ‘without pain’, I can certainly contemplate undergoing the whole treatment plan, since from my experience in the past, the most unpleasant part was the hygienist. I know that poor dental hygiene has brought me to this place, and I’m ashamed of that; but it is my belief that some health problems are a result of the psyche; mine being that when my mother died I started to lose sight of myself, and didn’t take as much care of myself as I should have. This was 2 years ago, but I know in myself that I need to sort it out and I want to put my trust in you and your team. I would like to take up your proposed treatment plan; but I guess I just need a bit of reassurance.
Don´t think so much about what was – what is important – is what is! The treatment will be painfree, becuase you will tell us if you feel any pain and we will react immediately.
By the way, I have been looking at your forum and I think the work you are doing there is extremely admirable; you are an altruist in every sense of the word; giving up your time to helping others; sharing your knowledge of dentistry and ‘life wisdom’; with philosophical thoughts … that’s a truly marvellous thing in today’s world of ‘dog eat dog’. You should be enormously proud of that.
It’s nice of you to give us praise but pride is exactly that, what our suffering generates anew. It’s much more than pride that I feel when helping others – it’s feeling good. Try it yourself and you will notice that simply by helping others you receive something that is difficult to describe, something that money can’t buy – this positive energy and good feeling and you suddenly realise that the dog eat dog way is really stupid.
I would be so very grateful if you could give me a message of reassurance regarding the initial phases of my treatment; i.e. paradontosis behandlung und schmerzen treatment and pain. By the way, you can write a reply to me in German, because I understand almost everything .. I am just not able to write it well.
As I said, pain is a result of carelessness and inattentiveness. Usually the patient is embarassed to show his pain and/or the dentist ignores the signals and simply carries on. We don’t carry on when you say “that’s uncomfortable”, on the contrary we will react accordingly – thus, there’s no chance of pain. In addition let your practioner know right away that you want gel or an injectionso that you can then start the treatment more calmly – even though the parodontosis treatment does not usually hurt (even without anaesthetic).