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Patty Peterson considers herself someone who has “a pretty high pain threshold.”

Yet for most of her life, Peterson, 54, went to the dentist only as a last resort.

“I’d wait until something hurt, and then I’d go,” she says.

She recalls nothing in particular that led to her longtime pattern of dental avoidance, “other than for the time they tried to give me an injection in the middle of the roof of my mouth. I remember that. I really wanted to punch the dentist.”

Then, about two years ago, she became a patient of Dr. Peter Balle and is amazed at how, well, not painful her dental experiences have been since. That, she adds, is true even for such significant work as the placing of tooth implants.

“They give you drugs when you go in there. Someone has to drive you,” she says. “And you don’t really remember anything at all. You walk around and you talk to people, but you don’t remember anything.

“Which,” Peterson adds with a laugh, “is good and bad. Then you just come home and sleep a coup…………… continues on Las Vegas Review – Journal