# Navigating Dental Treatment with Sensory Differences

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Podcast: [Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD](https://stenobird.com/podcast/soles-to-soul-care-for-trauma-and-audhd-6727263)
Published: 2026-03-17T06:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://selfcarecoaching.net/the-feel-better-every-day-podcast-feed/navigating-dental-treatment-with-sensory-differences
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## Resource

This week, for the Spring Equinox and World Oral Health Day, I’m sharing some self-care ideas for supporting yourself through dental treatment with sensory differences. I’d been feeling quite proud of myself for handling the gum surgery and all it brought up (flashbacks etc) but then, boom, dental claim rejected. So this whole episode about advocating for yourself, with sensory differences and other AuDHD traits and symptoms, while helpful, didn’t help me with the finances of it all as I’d thought I had been advocating for myself and don’t know enough about dentist language to be able to discern in the same way that the insurance people do. I’d never had to deal with it before. So while I’m improving with the self-compassion but am feeling pretty frustrated that am €500 short and need to pay out loads more in two weeks! And that’s life! Progress not perfection! Healing being far from linear! And, with my ongoing aim to not argue with reality and ask how any problem is actually trying to help me, I guess I needed the gum surgery and couldn’t have made it happen had I known it wouldn’t have been covered. What I really notice is that even with my lack of dental and periodontal jargon knowhow, my attitude towards myself is kinder. For most of my 50 years, I’d have been, “I should have somehow KNOWN” whereas now I’m like, you know what? I’m not a dentist. I have no idea what any of the labels mean and that’s on them for being misleading and not at least having a glossary with lay terms. How about YOU? As you watched or listened and scanned all your parts (including your teeth!) from the soles of your feet to your soul, what needs YOUR attention? Are you fobbing yourself off in any way? Look after yourself and let me know what helps you do the far less pampery and indulgent…

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