Or maybe it's not the difference in dentists, as much as a difference in the procedures?
My daughter has had all kinds of dental work done, and although she didn't like it, she made it through.
With the extraction, something didn't add up. She insisted, through dreadful screams, that she could still feel the pain of the tooth being pulled, despite having had the local freezing inserted via a needle.
It took myself AND my ex holding her down to get the tooth out. The dentist admitted that the freezing isn't always enough for some patients, and recommended GA.
This sounds pretty similar to me.
There was no "tricking" my daughter. We tried to convince her that the pain was just in her head, and being caused by her fear, (as has been suggested by other folks on this thread) but her pain receptors apparently didn't agree. Even if it really was in our daughter's head, my ex and I decided that avoiding traumatizing our kid was more important than our egos and self satisfaction in making her go through something that made her feel terrible.
Why do people find it so hard to believe that this might be the case for the OP's kid? Why try to explain away her parental instinct on this?
This should be such an open and shut matter. She's deciding, to pay the extra costs of GA, and the father, who isn't even paying for it, is only objecting because, when he was that age, he didn't need that kind of "sissy" stuff. Because, surely, his son is exactly the same person he is. Yeah, never seen that end in disaster before. Not too hard to figure out who is sitting on the right side of the fence on this one.
My daughter has had all kinds of dental work done, and although she didn't like it, she made it through.
With the extraction, something didn't add up. She insisted, through dreadful screams, that she could still feel the pain of the tooth being pulled, despite having had the local freezing inserted via a needle.
It took myself AND my ex holding her down to get the tooth out. The dentist admitted that the freezing isn't always enough for some patients, and recommended GA.
This sounds pretty similar to me.
There was no "tricking" my daughter. We tried to convince her that the pain was just in her head, and being caused by her fear, (as has been suggested by other folks on this thread) but her pain receptors apparently didn't agree. Even if it really was in our daughter's head, my ex and I decided that avoiding traumatizing our kid was more important than our egos and self satisfaction in making her go through something that made her feel terrible.
Why do people find it so hard to believe that this might be the case for the OP's kid? Why try to explain away her parental instinct on this?
This should be such an open and shut matter. She's deciding, to pay the extra costs of GA, and the father, who isn't even paying for it, is only objecting because, when he was that age, he didn't need that kind of "sissy" stuff. Because, surely, his son is exactly the same person he is. Yeah, never seen that end in disaster before. Not too hard to figure out who is sitting on the right side of the fence on this one.
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