Ahh
Well look on the bright side - you're getting your teeth done for free. It'll hurt in the short term but you'll probably feel a lot better after. And it'll be preferable to leaving it till the point where you need serious, much more agonising and not free work done on it so yeah, I'd bite the bullet and go for it.

Alt Q. Ever since I was stupid enough to trust a fart after I thought I was over a nasty stomouch bug my colon's been relatively well behaved...
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:10, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

i know this
but somethign in my psyche is violently opposed to dental work, paid or otherwise during a day of celebration.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:21, Reply)

As you get older
You'll celebrate less on your birthday...

It wouldn't faze me if I had to go to the dentist on my birthday. Except for the fact that I'd likely be away somewhere as we usually have a short break at birthday time.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:23, Reply)

True
But it sounds like this guy is a genuinely nice bloke and going out of his way to help. My advice would be to take him up on it, re-arrange birthday celebrations to another day and invite him out to them as a thankyou. Oh and explain to him your fear of dentists, and that anything you do and/or say in the dentists chair is not personal and that you don't realy mean it. Mind you, if he's a dentist he's probably used to that sort of thing.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:25, Reply)

he's done minor work on me before.
to be fair, you wouldn't get one of them near me without armed support or possibly an airstrike under normnal conditions, this guy is a cracking bloke.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 14:09, Reply)