I can't bear going to the dentist...horrors from childhood come flooding back. Cripes...childhood loose teeth used to be pulled out with one end of a bit of cotton looped around the tooth itself, the other tied to the door handle...and......................BANG!
Makes my eyes water just thinking about it!
And all those dentists who used to fill all your teeth, when you were little, mainly 'cos they got paid for it. GRRRRRRR!
My dentist says that folks of my generation, and older, mostly dislike dentists because of those kind of memories.