I also have a fear of Needles and Dentists. When young i used to get quite uptight, i even hit one dentist when i was 18, after to being taken to the dentist by a rugby coach (had several pints in me though) I hit him that hard, he hit his head on the coat hook on the back of the door. To his credit, he realised he had frightened me, took a different approach, finished the repair. "what an idiot i fealt". Didn't go for a couple years, then got an abcess.I had to go, my girlfriend at the time, just booked me in to a woman dentist, I was fine for a coule of years then. Fear came back a fter i ch