Peanuts, I don't know either which one is worse, a cap or root canal, but I'm thinking the root canal too. I've never had a cap done. Friend wait in the waiting room? Damn, I need someone to come in the room with me and hold my hand the whole time. Yea, I know I sound like a baby but when you're phobic, anything you can get for any kind of comfort is good. The last time I went to the dentist I thought I was gonna have to have a tooth pulled cuz a filling fell out and took part of my tooth with it, but turned out he just needed to refill it, not that that was much of a picnic either. Gosh, I hate that drill, even when you're sitting in the waiting room and you can hear him using it on someone else. Tooth is ok, at least IMHO.