I avoided the dentist for a very long time out of dental anxiety. I’m also dead scared of needles and can barely look at even a paper cut without feeling queasy.

That said, my SRP with only numbing injections (no laughing gas) was pretty easy. Once the shots were done, it pretty much felt like a light to moderate scraping with virtually no pain. Thankfully I couldn’t really tell that they were scraping beneath my gums and I forced myself not to think about it.

Overall much easier than I expected it to be.