Testimony of Healing August 10, 2015 Issue

Dental visits free of anxiety and pain

Rosemary Denson Miller

For many years I relied on nitrous oxide (also known as “laughing gas”) whenever I had dental work done. This drug doesn’t relieve pain but is supposed to alleviate anxiety, which I experienced whenever going to the dentist.

A few years ago, I had an appointment to have a filling repaired. The night before the appointment, I realized that using this drug didn’t conform with my practice of Christian Science, which teaches that God alone is all-powerful. I saw that it was fear that needed to be eliminated from thought through an understanding of God and my relation to Him, and that when there was no more fear, there would be no pain as a result of the procedure.

I called a friend who is a Christian Science practitioner and asked if she would pray for me since I wanted to stop using both nitrous oxide and Novocaine, which I had relied on occasionally to numb pain. I prayed from the standpoint that no matter where I was and regardless of the circumstances, I was always in the kingdom of heaven, which is defined in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures in part as “the atmosphere of Spirit [God], where Soul [God] is supreme” (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 590). I also knew that nothing could separate me from my Father-Mother God, who was constantly loving and caring for me.