Comfort & reassurance
Help for nervous patients and what to expect at your visit.
Comfort & reassurance
Afraid of the Dentist? What Nitrous Oxide Actually Feels Like — and How to Come Back After Years Away
Nitrous oxide produces a light, warm, floaty calm within minutes. You stay awake, aware, and in control, and it clears in five to ten minutes so you can usually drive yourself home. Here is what it feels like, who it is not for, and how a first visit back really goes.
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Comfort & reassuranceI Haven't Been to the Dentist in Ten Years — What Happens Now
An exam, X-rays if you need them, and an honest conversation. Nothing has to be fixed on the first day. Nobody is going to lecture you — and it is almost always less bad than a decade of dread has led you to believe.
Read moreComfort & reassuranceWhat Happens at Your First Visit
An exam, X-rays if you need them, and a conversation. About an hour. You will see your own scan on a screen, hear what needs doing now and what can wait — and you are not obliged to book any treatment that day.
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Comfort & reassuranceDoes a Root Canal Hurt?
No. The pain everyone associates with root canals is the pain of the infection that made one necessary — and the treatment is what stops it. Most patients describe the appointment as similar to having a filling.
Read moreComfort & reassuranceTaking a Nervous Child to the Dentist — What Helps and What Backfires
Do not promise it will not hurt. Do not use the dentist as a threat. Do not narrate your own fear in the car. Three things parents do with the best intentions, and each one makes the next twenty years harder.
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Comfort & reassuranceDigital Scans Instead of Impression Trays — Why We Stopped Using Goop
A small wand takes a few thousand photographs of your teeth in about ninety seconds. No tray, no setting material, nothing to gag on. Patients mention this before they mention anything else, which tells you something about the alternative.
Read moreBook with a dentist who will tell you when you do not need the treatment
Dr. Jasmeet Kaur, D.D.S. publishes her cost ranges, explains the cheaper option first, and says plainly when the honest answer is to do nothing. Accepting new patients, including children.