Re: Keanu Reeves in Constantine

In article <dbtkc8$38k$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Cheryl Perkins <cperkins@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Francis A. Miniter <miniter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > As I explained to the dentist, it is fear that causes pain, and as I knew
> > what
> > she was going to do and that it was in my best interests, I had no fear.
> <snip>
>
> I've been to dentists, known what they were going to do, and that it was
> in my best interests, and had pain.
>
> Mind you, after the first time, I also had fear.
>
> As I got older, and dentistry improved, I was more able to deal with my
> fear and my pain. But the pain was still there. I think the better pain
> control techniques of the dentist, and the fact that I have (so far)
> needed less and less painful dental work as an adult than as a child had
> a lot more to do with the decreased dental pain in recent years than
> anything I did to eliminate my fear.
>
> Clearly, it was different for you. But I really don't think fear causes
> pain, although it may make it more difficult for the patient to handle the
> pain.

My dentist says he invented a technique, by accident really, of setting
a sort of buzzing instrument against the cheek when giving a shot of
novocain, which in my experience renders the shot nearly imperceptible.
He thinks it works just by distracting the patient enough to offset the
discomfort of the shot.

I speak as someone who has a pretty okay body, but one with an
inordinate sensitivity to pain or even discomfort which is a royal pain
in the butt, as it were. Novocain is my friend, without which there
wouldn't be a tooth left my my head by this time!

SMC
.

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