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[OakLeaf]

Any suggestions on getting DH to go to the dentist?

He had a horrendous childhood experience too, has massive teeth problems and just will not go.

The last time he went (for some extractions, since he'd let them get beyond where the teeth could be saved) he had IV sedation. They gave him Vicodin for afterwards, I made sure he took one before he was fully conscious, and he didn't even finish the scrip so I believe him when he says the pain wasn't that bad. But that's been 7-8 years ago and he won't go back, not even to get bridges made.

It's bad now and it's going to be a lot worse. I realize it's his mouth and his health... and I can live with the mouth noises he makes when he eats... but he's got a history of diabetes and kidney trouble in his family which I know chronic infection can be really bad for that. It seems like I ought to be able to do something more to encourage him to go???


myself, I've gotten four crowns in the last three years... four more to go, thanks to an orthodontist who followed the fads when I was a kid, ruined my bite and resulted in my crushing all my back teeth.