A dentist chair and tools. (Image: Getty, edited: Herman Eloff)
News24’s lifestyle editor, Herman Eloff, has a fear of going to the dentist. When he gets an invite to visit a luxury clinic in Cape Town, he approaches it with trepidation and a healthy dose of skepticism. Will he make it into the big chair? This is part of a series of articles titled ‘And Try Stuff‘.
“The first thing I tell my patients is that the only way we’re going to have a good relationship is if we trust each other. It goes both ways. I need to trust you, and you need to trust me 100%,” Dr. Mark Bowes says.
You’d be forgiven for thinking I might be speaking to my psychologist. But that’s not the case.
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