| Quote from finney on 5/6/2008 at 9:35 PM: My experiences as a child weren't necessarily pleasant because I had EXTREMELY crowded teeth, and this was back at the time when they thought serial extractions would fix that (they don't, if any dentist ever tells you that your kid needs teeth pulled before they fall out to prevent crowding, find a different dentist AND an orthodontist because that's what it will come to anyway). I had just about every baby tooth in my mouth pulled rather than it falling out naturally. The thing is, though, those became pretty routine, and baby teeth are easy to pull, so I had a minimum of pain and suffering. I never looked forward to it, but it wasn't horrible either.
That was one of my big problems too! Almost every single one of my baby molars was pulled because my adult teeth were coming in and my baby teeth weren't falling out! When you're already scared those experiences don't help. Most of the dentists i've had have been pretty understanding and have worked with me slowly to get me comfortable but occassionally i'll get one that just doesn't understand...i've cried while having my teeth worked on because the dentist didn't believe it was possilbe that i could still be feeling anything when in fact i wasn't completly numb! I never went back! 
MTA: oh and my baby teeth had rather large roots...they didn't come out very easily at all!
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