thanks - yes hugs today are really super good!

Perna, it was a one time event (sadly) otherwise I would shop around for a female dentist. I just got health care thru the state last week and it is about to change so i will no longer be allowed cleanings (poor people do not need clean teeth afterall) so having only a month to do this in, I jumped at the chance (also not having seen a dentist in 2.5 years). One day, perhaps when I rejoin the world of money, I will have dental (and vision) again and can do exactly that - get a dentist i really trust.

But I must say that the hygenist was great - very kind, caring, and supportive - and careful! She did say that she's never met a person as sensitive as me and I've truly never had to have a novicane shot for a cleaning! But Santa DM said that my mouth had had trauma (I had to really bite down here to not say something) and that because of it, I'd been chewing wrong all this time -course I didn't have this issue before braces.... Anyway, he sanded down some of the areas in the idea that it will help. but that was where he kept poking my arm, to show me how to tap tap tap on the typing ribbon (to mark where the bite was wrong) and it took All My Strength to not TAP him back. That's where I was digging my fingernails into my palm, squeezing the crystal, and trying to keep the internal protector/attacker from hitting him when I felt her flash through my eyes. Moments like that you wish T could be RIGHT THERE and step in and explain things!!!!