#Reaction March 8
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On Monday I was laying back in the dentist chair for my 6 month cleaning and check-up.
I had a few thoughts running thru my mind. The most dominant thought was how I improved my REACTION to certain dental office sounds and experiences.
As a small child growing up in Morristown NJ I went to dentist named Dr. Reilly. His office was on the second floor of a building off “The Green” in Morristown. It would be an understatement to say he was an “Old School Dentist”. His dental techniques were not designed for comfort.
I had a number of cavities as a child and he filled every single one using a drill without any Novocain. It wasn’t just me it was the same for everyone of my brothers and sisters.
When I was in college I went to dentist in North Carolina who numbed me up to fill a cavity. It was the first time in my life I didn’t feel the pain of a dental drill. Despite the Novocain I still had a REACTION to the sound of the drill. I hear that whine and I cringed on what I thought I would experience. I related the drill with nerve end pain.
Up until Monday I would still have the same REACTION to hearing a dental drill. I knew that sound in my childhood was a precursor to pain.
As I sat in the dental chair this week I heard the sound of the drill in an adjoining room. For some reason on Monday that sound did not induce a REACTION of fear.
I think the reason was gratitude and logic the drill was not inside my mouth. Yet the dominant thought was that someone along the way had added Novocain to a dental process to eliminate the pain. That is good REACTION.
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