I don't have a dentist, cos I can't find one who will do basic deaf awareness, stop fucking babbling at me in Brummie or turn off the fucking telly/radio/flickering-lights. I need them to not-babble cos I can't tell what is important words and what is just whitter and it sends my stress sky high.
The last NHS dentist I tried claims to specialise in anxiety but that seemed to be him going around saying "I KNOW what causes anxiety so I shall TELL YOU IT" and ignoring everything I was actually saying. He was also dodgy in that he kept insisting he wouldn't do mercury amalgam fillings and insisting we paid 3x as much privately for the other type.
I ended up looking on Cochrane about amalgam v the alternatives; no significant evidence of harm and amalgam tend to last slightly longer. Mr Arrogant Dentist didn't like me citing Cochrane at him and insisted I went to his "dental practitioner" who gashed one of my teeth with the drill. None of them would let me use my blue lenses, turn off the fucking flickering blaring telly and the juniors just babbled constantly.
That filling then fell out a few weeks later, Mr Arrogant hauled me into his room - I thought to look & fix, but then proceeded to have a blazing row with Mr Dental Practitioner about fixing the filling right in front of me; which was incredibly awkward.
I was getting 3 days worth of migraines each time I went. I didn't trust them. So I haven't been back since.
The dental hospital removed a failed crown in 2009 from one of my frontish-molars at the same time as doing a coronectomy (alternative to wisdom teeth removal). That dentist was AMAZING, calm, clear, understood me signing that I was in pain and where by hand-shape, fixed the issues and was just generally brilliant. No questions asked about tooth removal, I'd had the gap for about 18 months by that point and I clearly couldn't afford implants.
I don't know what I will do if I need dental care, probably go to dental hospital and hope for the best. I was pondering trying the local one again, making them book sign language interpreters (to stop the babble) and then Covid came along.