A guy with bad overall dental health came to my clinic last May.
He hasn't seen a dentist for quite some time and his dental health generally neglected. He is generally fearful of dentists he said.
So i had him get an x-ray, and was surprised to see a lot of his seemingly broken teeth have been endodontically / root canal treated in the past!
From initially recommending some tooth extraction, we proceeded to save what seemed like 'junk' from first look and utilized those teeth to have a post installed and eventually a porcelain jacket crown over it.
After all these procedures, i'm happy to say that the 'generally fearful' perception of the patient towards dental procedures have been allayed! He still needs a lot of work! Hopefully we will be seeing each other a few months from now to resume his full mouth rehabilitation.