Does going to the dentists scare you?

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I honestly never needed work done by a dentist until I was 21, at the time I had perfect teeth to my knowledge,no cavities and no pain. I went to the dentist to get a wisdom tooth removed because it had grown in where it was rubbing the inside of my mouth which was becomming sore. I figured it would be a simple procedure and didn't realize I was walking into the start of tooth destruction. The dentist was very rough and I figured it was because I was not use to having my mouth fooled with.I felt an odd snap when he finally pulled out my wisdom tooth which made me uncomfortable. The next day I had a huge bruise on the left side of my face, the same side he had removed the tooth from.I was told it was normal and after a few days it went away. About a week later I noticed an odd spot in the tooth that was beside the now missing wisdom,a chip.Apparently the dentist had chipped the tooth beside the wisdom tooth when he removed it. I found myself back in his office the next month with pain in two other wisdom teeth,again my back teeth were damaged. He removed them both and noticed I had a chip and I needed a filling in my front tooth. He scheduled another appointment a week later and drilled and filled my front tooth. My front tooth began acheing after that and I noticed an odd swelling on my gum above it.It continued to swell and I called the dentists office to request to be seen asap. I went into the bathroom to rinse out my mouth and had an awful taste when I did. I lifted my lip to look at the swelling better and it popped literally releasing alot of infection with it. I was livid and the pain was overwhelming.I called the dentist again and told the woman at the front desk I needed to be seen now. She scheduled an appointment for that day and I was given a prescription for anti biotics. Apparently somehow I had recieved an infection in my gum when the dentist filled my tooth. About a month later the filling I had recieved in my front tooth fell out and I was yet again back in his office having my tooth drilled and fixed. He decided to drill both my front teeth and fill them then mentioned to me that I needed a root canal in the future. I was petrified and told him I would when I could. A year later the filling chipped out again in my front tooth and since then I had moved. I wasn't working my job I had prior and hadn't found a company that I could afford for dental insurance.When I went to a new dentist he was shocked at how bad my back teeth were. Every tooth that had been beside a wisdom that was pulled had cracks and holes forming in them. They were trashed. He asked me how they had gotten this way and I told him. He couldn't believe how much damage had been done by simple wisdom extractions. He then took a look at my front teeth and said he was very disappointed with how long my prior dentist had let my teeth go. He told me that I should have had a root canal when I first had the infection in my gum and his only solution was either a root canal right then or a bridge. At that time I couldn't afford a bill of $3000.00 for a root canal and have still been trying to afford having my teeth repaired. this is just one example and I am sure that many people have had great expirences with their dentist unlike me. I am curious if anyone is scared to visit one though and have you ever had one just mangle your teeth?