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Deviant Shadow
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Every time I hear that I have a dental appointment, a rock drops in my stomach. I fear the dentist almost as much as I fear spiders. When I was much younger, I used to love going to the dentist because I would always get a toy when he finished. So I used to look forward to going to the dental office. That all changed when I got my first cavity filling at the age of 7.
I remember my mom trying to explain what was going to happen during the "operation". Unfortunately, my mom really did not know how to explain a cavity filling to a 7 year old so she just told me that
"Dr. Silverman is just going to take a drill and drill a hole in your tooth."
Of course this freaked me out because I knew it was going to hurt. Again my mother tried to comfort me,
"Don't worry, he'll give you a shot for the pain."
I freaked out even more because I hate shots. Again, my mother tried to comfort me,
"The shot doesn't hurt much. It just feels like somebody is sticking a fork in your gums. Then after that, it feels like your lips are falling off."
I swear to God, that is exactly what she said. I am not making this up. So you can imagine, I was scared to death. So anyway, I went into the dentist's office and sat in the chair scared as hell. The first thing he does is he asks me to open my mouth. Then he got out a long syringe and held it up in front of my face and squeezed the air out of it. It looked like a horror movie because the syringe was silhouetted by the overhead light.
So then he tells me that I am going to "feel a little pinch" Bill Cosby was right about dentists and doctors. When a doctor gives you shot, he just puts it in and takes it out in a second. When dentists give a shot, they put it in and keep it in for about 5 minutes. So there I was, on the chair getting shot for about five minutes. For some strange reason, Dr. Silverman was shaking my gums around. As if I wasn't hurting enough.
Finally he takes out the shot and my lips fall off. Then he asks me to open my mouth wider. But I couldn't open my mouth wider because my lips fell off. To fix this problem, he grabs a vice and props my mouth open. Then he attached some sort of rubber mask to my face using staples. Yes, I said staples. He jammed staples right into my gums. Unfortunately, he only numbed my lips not my gums so I almost black out from the pain. Tears are streaming down my cheeks and my dentist says,
"Oh come on you big baby, that doesn't hurt."
After he finishes attaching that "thing", he gets out the drill. I can't describe the noise that things makes. It sounded like what you would get if a mouse had been smoking for a long time then screamed real loud. So anyway, he holds the drill up in front of my face just like he did with the shot. Then he went to work on my cavity filling.
Now my dentist wore huge safety glasses that reflected everything that went on in my mouth. I saw him tear into my tooth with the "dremel" that he was using. I could see pools of blood in my mouth and sparks. My mouth was smoking. I tried as hard as I could not to move just in case he chopped off my tongue. Finally, he filled the cavity and took out the staples with the mask. Then he used his little hand held vacuum hose to suck up all the tooth shrapnel and blood. Then he smiles at me and says,
"Now that wasn't so bad was it?"
I remember my mom trying to explain what was going to happen during the "operation". Unfortunately, my mom really did not know how to explain a cavity filling to a 7 year old so she just told me that
"Dr. Silverman is just going to take a drill and drill a hole in your tooth."
Of course this freaked me out because I knew it was going to hurt. Again my mother tried to comfort me,
"Don't worry, he'll give you a shot for the pain."
I freaked out even more because I hate shots. Again, my mother tried to comfort me,
"The shot doesn't hurt much. It just feels like somebody is sticking a fork in your gums. Then after that, it feels like your lips are falling off."
I swear to God, that is exactly what she said. I am not making this up. So you can imagine, I was scared to death. So anyway, I went into the dentist's office and sat in the chair scared as hell. The first thing he does is he asks me to open my mouth. Then he got out a long syringe and held it up in front of my face and squeezed the air out of it. It looked like a horror movie because the syringe was silhouetted by the overhead light.
So then he tells me that I am going to "feel a little pinch" Bill Cosby was right about dentists and doctors. When a doctor gives you shot, he just puts it in and takes it out in a second. When dentists give a shot, they put it in and keep it in for about 5 minutes. So there I was, on the chair getting shot for about five minutes. For some strange reason, Dr. Silverman was shaking my gums around. As if I wasn't hurting enough.
Finally he takes out the shot and my lips fall off. Then he asks me to open my mouth wider. But I couldn't open my mouth wider because my lips fell off. To fix this problem, he grabs a vice and props my mouth open. Then he attached some sort of rubber mask to my face using staples. Yes, I said staples. He jammed staples right into my gums. Unfortunately, he only numbed my lips not my gums so I almost black out from the pain. Tears are streaming down my cheeks and my dentist says,
"Oh come on you big baby, that doesn't hurt."
After he finishes attaching that "thing", he gets out the drill. I can't describe the noise that things makes. It sounded like what you would get if a mouse had been smoking for a long time then screamed real loud. So anyway, he holds the drill up in front of my face just like he did with the shot. Then he went to work on my cavity filling.
Now my dentist wore huge safety glasses that reflected everything that went on in my mouth. I saw him tear into my tooth with the "dremel" that he was using. I could see pools of blood in my mouth and sparks. My mouth was smoking. I tried as hard as I could not to move just in case he chopped off my tongue. Finally, he filled the cavity and took out the staples with the mask. Then he used his little hand held vacuum hose to suck up all the tooth shrapnel and blood. Then he smiles at me and says,
"Now that wasn't so bad was it?"
