The one change that worked: I was terrified of the dentist - until I found a very special one

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After an agonising experience, I avoided checkups for four years. But a practice that assured a stress-free process for scared patients was transformativeI haven’t always been afraid of the dentist. If you had asked me a decade ago whether sitting in the dentist’s chair filled me with dread or made me break out in a cold sweat, I would have laughed and said no – what is there to be afraid of? It was only in 2021, after I had a filling without being properly numbed, that I understood why people a