Dental Injections

[Snook 10]

I've never felt actual pain when having a dental injection. Sometimes I don't feel anything and sometimes it is like a scratch. They tend to be worse if they are right at the back, but never been that bad.

[EmilyM 10]

I've had a few fillings recently, the ones at the back, I didn't even feel the needle.

I had one filling in my front incisor and that needle stung. She put the needle up my gum towards my nose, it made my eyes water!

[Ms Macbeth 73]

About the only sensible post on this thread so far; however not only does it depend on all those things, but also on the individual himself; give two people an identical injection in an identical spot, and it's quite possible for one to feel agony and the other to feel nothing.

 

I totally agree. We are all different, so we feel pain at different levels.

[ormester101 10]

got a nice root canal to have on tuesday i hate normal injections i can stomach dental injections depending on the dentist they do hurt they the l;ast time i went to the dentist a old dentist now i had no injection for a root canal didnt hurt really but would have prefered to be numb

[Tipex 10]

They dont hurt that much to be honest. It's the mental images that hurt the most.

[Saffy 10]

My dentist soray the area with an anasthetic spray first, so it numbs it .. then he does the injection ..

[missflirtuk 10]

I have had a root canal done with no needle and it didn't hurt a bit, and I am a chicken . But I have also had a baby and didn't think that hurt as much as I thought it would so maybe I'm getting braver in my old age .

[metalman 21]

I had one in the front top row once when I was about 14. Right under the top lip, pointing up towards the nose. It still brings me out in a cold sweat now - my feet kicked on the chair and I let out a rising scream and it seemed to go on for ages while he pumped the stuff into me. Worst pain I've ever had, though I do have a really low pain threshold.

 

Never been back since. Rather die first.

 

Probably not what you want to hear really.

[Shep76 10]

I'm a wimp and don't like the dentist one bit but don't find the needles too bad. A good tip is to open your mouth as wide as you can - my dentist told me that and definitely find I feel it less.

[Tess 10]

I'm such a baby about things like this and managed to avoid having injections until a couple of months ago, like others have suggested I closed my eyes before I could even see the needle. The first one stung a bit (but wasn't unbearable) and when I asked the dentist when he was going to do the second one he said he had already done it!

[ormester101 10]

when u have a teeth out the pallatal injection hurt like crazy and i could feel the needle hit the bone i had to have quite a bit of work done in one appointment 14 injectiosn

[Magneteer 20]

Nowhere near as painful as Tooth-ache !