ok I am overcoming 47 years of fear and now that I am able to deal with this I can't go back to my old ways ,if I could I would , I had a small filling done , and what he did was grind off a flat spot of the tooth and did not reshape it and this bugs me , I am about to have a crown done or a 3/4 onlay ( I also feel this is up to me if it should be a full crown or an onlay not his choice but mine) anyway this small filling has me questioning his skills , if he takes the easy way out with this small filling how on earth can I trust him with a more complex job ( I need to have total trust , not just blind faith ) now I told him if i need a root canal i will have the tooth extracted by the oral surgeon and his assistant looked at me and said a root canal is not that bad , i looked at her and said , listen , it is not an option and it's not going to happen , so anyway i am going in on the 19th to have a small surface stain removed and i am going to have a long talk with him about what i feel , i have never ever been one to hold back what is on my mind , if i offend him so be it , it's my mouth and it's my money , hard earned i might add , also i am telling him if during the work he finds i need a root canal to stop all work and i will have it removed , i have told friends my feelings and about the talk i am going to have with him and there reaction is , you can't talk to a dentist that way ,, i say that is bull , you question your auto repair guy and tv repair man , so where is it written you don't question a dentist on his skills , am i wrong here or just a total nut job ,, well i am a nut job but that's beside the fact ,,, but to just do what a dentist says and not question him on every aspect of this goes against my grain