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, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

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)