Thank you Bob and Sheilah for your kind replies. Bob, I hope your experience was an "easy" one. Sheilah, I sure wish you didn't live in Colorado (assuming that is where that specialist of yours was)! That's awesome (and hopeful for me) that he was so good and to you as well.
The truth is the dentist I will be seeing is actually not one I know or necessarily like-though I believe he knows his stuff-all that much. I had been a patient of his partner since I was a young teen but unfortately she retired and moved out of the area. As a result I admit to having put off cleanings thus the trouble I'm in right now.
Yes, I've seen him a few times but just at the end of a cleaning, never for a major service like a root canal. I've actually been trying to find another dentist, but this tooth trouble took me by painful surprise and I didn't think that'd be the time to go to someone completely new. Although, I did a Google search for "pain free dentists" and contacted one about a free second opinion so will see if they get back to me.
For now, supposedly Friday will be part one of the root canal and then the following week after I get a major tooth cleaning, it'll be finished up, if he can do it. He claimed he wasn't actually sure he could do it himself, so we shall see.
Anyway, enough "tooth" talk for now. Thanks again.
Mona
