I’m significantly overweight and have a tooth that is badly decayed and need some dental work done. Now I’m worried that I’ll be too big for the dental chair. Does anyone know how to approach this please?
I’m significantly overweight and have a tooth that is badly decayed and need some dental work done. Now I’m worried that I’ll be too big for the dental chair. Does anyone know how to approach this please?
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All the ones I've been to for the last decade or more have had open sides on the chairs. I'm a bigger lass too, and they're fine.
Based on a quick google search, it would seem that dental chairs have the capacity to safely hold about 150kgs to 180kgs.
(For context, I'm approx 110kgs/5'6 and very easily fit in the dental chair to have my wisdom tooth pulled).
In saying that, every single person, irrespective of size, has the right to access dental care. In special circumstances dental work can be carried out in hospitals or other specialised clinics.
So please go and have consultation with a dentist. My hubby put off getting his decayed tooth fixed, it got infected, his face swelled up like a football and he ended up in hospital where they told him had he waited just one more day to come in or if the infection had spread to his brain - it may well have been fatal.
Go into a dentist and talk to them discreetly, mention your concerns to them, get them to show you. The dentist chairs nowadays are incredibly sturdy and would easily accommodate a larger person. I've been close to 120kg and had my child laying ON me while they got their teeth checked and it didn't even wobble.
They are not interested in your weight, they are interested in fixing your tooth and making sure it doesn’t get worse. They will put your mind at ease if you go and speak to them first. If it still concerns you and causes anxiety then maybe use this as a good reason to get yourself into a healthy weight range to avoid feeling this way in the future. You are just compromising your health otherwise and shouldn’t have to.
I have no idea why people let themselves continue spending decades geting so morbidly obese before things become a problem for them.
Not really your business so I'm sure no one cares.
I don't know why people are so rude, but here you are.
That's exactly right, mate. You literally have NO IDEA...
You have no idea what this person has delt with in their life, their struggles, their genetic or medical predisposition for weight gain.
Comments like yours don't help, I promise you.